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By David McCullough, 2006
ISBN 0743226720
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed...
- A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
By Howard Zinn, 2005
ISBN 0060838655
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and...
- John Adams
By David McCullough, 2001
ISBN 141657588X
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United...
- The Killer Angels
By Michael Shaara, 2001
ISBN 0345444124
After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels, remains as vivid and powerful as the day it was originally published. This handsome new hardcover edition introduces a whole new generation to...
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2006
ISBN 0743270754
This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.
- Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
By Joseph J. Ellis, 2002
ISBN 0375705244
In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award—winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals–Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison–confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the...
- Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
By Nathaniel Philbrick, 2007
ISBN 0143111973
Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award– winning In the Heart of the Sea, hailed as "spellbinding" by Time magazine. In Mayflower, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and extraordinarily vivid account of our most sacred...
- His Excellency: George Washington
By Joseph J. Ellis, 2005
ISBN 1400032539
To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount...
- The Civil War: A Narrative
By Shelby Foote, 1986
ISBN 0394749138
Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox.
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
By Charles C. Mann, 2006
ISBN 1400032059
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine...
- Truman
By David McCullough, 1993
ISBN 0671869205
The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David...
- Grant: A Biography
By William S. McFeely,
ISBN 9781122698344
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- Theodore Rex
By Edmund Morris, 2002
ISBN 0812966007
Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism.
- American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
By Joseph J. Ellis, 1998
ISBN 0679764410
At different times Thomas Jefferson has been claimed by Southern secessionists and Northern abolitionists, New Deal liberals and neoconservatives Now historian Joseph J. Ellis restores our most elusive national icon to human dimensions with insight, sympathy, and superb style, shrewdly sifting the...
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
By Timothy Egan, 2006
ISBN 0618773479
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.Timothy Egan’s critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage.
- Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
By Stephen Ambrose, 1997
ISBN 0684826976
In this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author od D-Day, presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through...
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
By Jeffrey Toobin, 2008
ISBN 1400096790
In The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now...
- Alexander Hamilton
By Ron Chernow, 2004
ISBN 0143034758
Ron Chernow, the renowned author of Titan whom the New York Times has called "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades," vividly re-creates the whole sweep of Alexander Hamilton's turbulent life: his exotic, brutal upbringing; his titanic feuds with celebrated...
