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Written by Charles Clark
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $24.99
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Written by Thomas Bender
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $19.99
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Written by Carlin Romano
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $18.00
This bold, insightful book argues that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace for truth and debate.
With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano—Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and professor of philosophy—takes on the widely held belief that the United States...
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The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861
Written by William J. Cooper
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $30.00
In this carefully researched book William J. Cooper gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, during which all efforts to avoid or impede secession and prevent war failed. Here is the story of the...
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The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861
Written by William J. Cooper
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $15.99
In this carefully researched book William J. Cooper gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, during which all efforts to avoid or impede secession and prevent war failed. Here is the story of the...
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A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election
Written by Chuck Todd and Sheldon Gawiser
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $9.99
This detailed overview and analysis of the results of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential win gives us the inside state-by-state guide to how Obama achieved his victory, and allows us to see where the country stood four years ago.
Although much has changed in the nearly four years since, How Barack Obama... Read more >
Sears Homes and Other Kit Houses
Written by Rebecca Hunter
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
At the turn of the last century, the American middle class was expanding rapidly as homesteaders moved west and as trains took travellers across the country, where they established themselves in the depot towns that erupted along train lines. With that growth came the demand for new homes, and from that... Read more >
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The People Behind the Borderlines
Written by Mark Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $16.95
Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is explained in Mark... Read more >
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Written by Carlin Romano
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $13.99
A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name.
With verve and keen intelligence... Read more >
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Written by Carlin Romano
Format: Hardcover, 688 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $35.00
A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name.
With verve and keen intelligence... Read more >
Written by David Beers
Format: eBook, 273 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2012
Price: $13.99
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Sears Homes and Other Kit Houses
Written by Rebecca Hunter
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $9.95
At the turn of the last century, the American middle class was expanding rapidly as homesteaders moved west and as trains took travellers across the country, where they established themselves in the depot towns that erupted along train lines. With that growth came the demand for new homes, and from that... Read more >
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Written by Ken Auletta
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
How - and why - did one of the world's greatest cities come to be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy? Ken Auletta, writer for THE NEW YORKER and columnist for THE DAILY NEWS, shows how the decline of New York City was partly inevitable --- the result of shifting migration... Read more >
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The Watch and Ward Society's Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil
Written by Neil Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $16.00
A lively history of the Watch and Ward Society--New England's notorious literary censor for over eighty years.
Banned in Boston is the first-ever history of the Watch and Ward Society--once Boston's unofficial moral guardian. An influential watchdog organization, bankrolled by society's upper crust, it actively suppressed vices like gambling and prostitution, and...
Written by Kevin Starr
Format: eBook, 800 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2011
Price: $13.99
In this extraordinary book, Kevin Starr–widely acknowledged as the premier historian of California, the scope of whose scholarship the Atlantic Monthly has called “breathtaking”–probes the possible collapse of the California dream in the years 1990—2003. In a series of compelling chapters, Coast of Dreams moves through a variety of topics that... Read more >
The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
Written by John Ehle
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2011
Price: $12.99
The fascinating portrayal of the Cherokee nation, filled with Native American legend, lore, and religion -- a gripping American drama of power, politics, betrayal, and ambition.
B & W photographs
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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The People Behind the Borderlines
Written by Mark Stein
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $24.95
Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is explained in Mark... Read more >
The People Behind the Borderlines
Written by Mark Stein
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $16.95
Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is explained in Mark... Read more >
The Watch and Ward Society?s Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil
Written by Neil Miller
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2010
Price: $26.95
“I want to be intelligent, even if I do live in Boston.”
—an anonymous Bostonian, 1929
In this spectacular romp through the Puritan City, Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America, forever linked with the infamous...
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Written by Neil Miller
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $26.95
“I want to be intelligent, even if I do live in Boston.”
—an anonymous Bostonian, 1929
In this spectacular romp through the Puritan City, Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America, forever linked with the infamous...
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Written by Mary Austin
Introduction by Robert Hass
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2010
Price: $9.99
“Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite—east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert” is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders of this region... Read more >
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Written by Michael J. Trinklein
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2010
Price: $24.95
Everyone knows the fifty nifty united states—but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never came to pass? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized dreams as West Florida, Texlahoma, Montezuma, Rough and Ready, and Yazoo. Some of these states came remarkably close to joining the Union... Read more >
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The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Written by H.W. Brands
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $22.00
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A brilliant evocation of the qualities that made FDR one of the most beloved and greatest of American presidents.
Drawing on archival material, public speeches, correspondence and accounts by those closest to Roosevelt early in his career and during his presidency, H. W. Brands shows how Roosevelt transformed American government during...
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A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election
Written by Chuck Todd and Sheldon Gawiser
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $12.95
This detailed overview and analysis of the results of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential win gives us the inside state-by-state guide to how Obama achieved his victory, and allows us to see where the country stood four years ago.
Although much has changed in the nearly four years since, How...
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The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Written by H.W. Brands
Format: Hardcover, 896 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $35.00
A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR's formative years, his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised, his combination of political genius, firm...
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