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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
DescriptionDelivering Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spellbinding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men--the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America’s situate in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research together with ...
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ManufacturerVintage
Categories Biographies & Memoirs   History & Nonfiction   General   Turn of the Century   Illinois   Murder & Mayhem   True Crime   Serial Killers   Paperback   Printed Books  
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States)
DescriptionThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the much respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series consists of three Pulitzer Award winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America's much esteemed historians, Gordon S. Wood, proposes ...
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ManufacturerOxford University Press, USA
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Antebellum   General   History & Theory   Political History   Hardcover   Printed Books   All product   Books  
John Adams
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In this great, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second ...

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ManufacturerSimon & Schuster
Categories General   Presidents & Heads of State   Adams, John   Leaders & Leadership   Hardcover   Printed Books   The Pulitzer Prize  
American Progressivism: A Reader
DescriptionThis collection of writings by prominent politicians, authors, and activists of the Progressive Era explores Progressivism's role in the development of American political thought. Pestritto and Atto offer insight into every figure's influence on Progressive Era American politics by introducing every entry together with the context inside which the author of ...
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ManufacturerLexington Books
Categories General AAS   United States   Political History   Public Policy   General   Turn of the Century   1900s-1920s   Contemporary   Social Policy   History & Theory   Political Parties   Paperback   Printed Books  
Up from Slavery
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Autobiography of influential spokesman and former slave who became a key figure in the struggle for equal rights. Booker T. Washington's American classic recounts his triumph over the legacy of slavery, his founding of the Tuskegee Institute, and his emergence as a national spokesperson for his race.
Nineteenth-century African American ...
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ManufacturerTantor Media
Categories Biographies & Memoirs   United States   African-American & Black   General   United States Civil War   Memoirs   Educators   Books on CD   Unabridged  
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life
Description1906. Parkman, American historian, studied and wrote concerning the history of Canada and the early Northwest. Contents: The Frontier; Breaking the Ice; Fort Leavenworth; Jumping Off; The Big Blue; The Platte and the Desert; The Buffalo; Taking French Go away; Scenes at Fort Laramie; The War Parties; Scenes at the Camp; Ill-Luck; Hunting Indians; The ...
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ManufacturerKessinger Publishing, LLC
Categories General   Old West   Paperback   Printed Books  
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (New York Times Notable Books)
DescriptionAndrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book concerning the man who rose from nothing to make the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of ...
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ManufacturerRandom House Trade Paperbacks
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   General   Presidents & Heads of State   Jackson, Andrew   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
DescriptionWinner of the National Book Prize and the Pulitzer Award: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker This epic work—named a excellent book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the ...
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ManufacturerW. W. Norton & Company
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   African-American & Black   General   History   Virginia   Hardcover   Printed Books   National Book Award   Top 100 Editors' Picks  
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 Arizona Territories
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States)
DescriptionFilled together with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Liberty will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.
James McPherson's quick-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events this crowded the two decades from the outbreak of ...
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ManufacturerOxford University Press, USA
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