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Team of Rivals
DescriptionAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national status to become president.

On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln ...

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Categories General AAS   General   United States Civil War   Political   Presidents & Heads of State   Lincoln, Abraham   Executive Branch   Political History   Hardcover   Bargain Books   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  
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party (Library Edition)
DescriptionRepublican Gomorrah is a bestiary of dysfunction, scandal, and sordidness from the dark heart of the theocratic forces this now have a leash on the party. It shows how those forces are the ones this establishment Republicans, like John McCain, have to bow to if they have any hope of running for president. Extra this just an exposé, Republican ...
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ManufacturerBlackstone Audio, Inc.
Categories Nonfiction   Political Parties   General   Political History   Books on CD   Unabridged  
Coming of Age in Mississippi
DescriptionBorn to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived throughout some of the much dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was…the ...
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ManufacturerDelta
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   African-American & Black   General   Memoirs   Women   Mississippi   Political History   African-American Studies   Paperback   Printed Books  
Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (2nd Edition)
DescriptionOne of the much influential political technology works written in the post World War II era, the original edition of Essence of Decision is a distinctive and fascinating examination of the pivotal event of the Cold War. Not just revised, but fully re-written, the Second Edition of this classic topic is a fresh reinterpretation of the theories ...
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ManufacturerLongman
Categories United States   General AAS   Political History   International Relations   Textbooks Trade-In   Cuba   1960s   General   History & Theory   Relations   Federal Government   Paperback   Printed Books  
Democracy in America: Abridged Edition (P.S.)
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The abridged edition of the enduring masterwork—a classic portrait of America's culture and people

Originally penned in the mid-nineteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains the much comprehensive, penetrating, and astute image of American life, politics, and ...

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Categories Textbooks Trade-In   General   Democracy   History & Theory   Political History   Paperback   Printed Books   Abridged  
The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century
DescriptionThe paperback debut of the bestselling book this tells the no-holds-barred story of Massachusettsrsquo; infamous Bulger Brothers, Whitey and Billy, unveiling an exceptional criminal alliance.
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ManufacturerGrand Central Publishing
Categories General   Political   Criminals   True Crime   All 4-for-3 Deals   General AAS   Massachusetts   Criminology   Political History   Organized Crime   Mass Market   4-for-3 Books   Printed Books  
The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama
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In this groundbreaking book, renowned investigative writers Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman chronicle the little-understood evolution of the neoconservative movement—from its birth as a rogue insurgency in the Nixon White House throughout its ascent to full and controversial control of America's foreign policy in the Bush years, to its repudiation ...

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Categories 1945 - Present   21st Century   General   Political History   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
DescriptionIn this 25th anniversary edition, Bailyn has added a substantial essay, "Fulfillment", as a Postscript to the original topic. In it he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the constitution, stressing the continuities between this struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the ...
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ManufacturerBelknap Press of Harvard University Press
Categories United States   Military   General AAS   Political Ideologies   Textbooks Trade-In   General   Revolutionary   Political History   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Creation of the American Republic: 1776-1787
DescriptionBetween 1776 and 1787, American political thinking underwent a fundamental transformation. Shows how the founders of the Republic rethought the political attitudes this had led them into the Revolution and came to grips together with the basic issues of government to make a distinctly American system. Gordon S. Wood--winner of the Pulitzer Award and ...
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ManufacturerW W Norton & Co Inc
Categories General   Practical Politics   Political History   Paperback   Printed Books  
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