Category: American History

The Oxford History of the American West

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : May 1994

Seller ID: 482645

ISBN-13: 9780195059687

When we think of the American West, we tend to conjure up images that are known the world over: bearded forty-niners leading pack mules up a mountain trail, the Oklahoma land stampede, Custer's Last Stand, and especially the range-riding, quick-shooting cowboy. But these familiar images are only a small part of western history. From the arrival of the Navajos in the Southwest more than seven hundred years ago, to the first Spanish settlements in New Mexico in the late sixteenth century, to the large Mormon migration to the Great Salt Lake, to the tourists flocking to the neon landscape of mode...
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The Times Were a Changin': The Sixties Reader

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Three Rivers Press : July 1998

Seller ID: 576231

ISBN-13: 9780609803370

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This is a must-have anthology of the milestone speeches, manifestos, court decisions, and groundbreaking journalism of the Sixties. No other period in American history has been more liberating, more confusing, more unforgettable, and had a more direct impact on the way we navigated the profound changes that swept over the country in the following three decades. From Betty Friedan to Barry Goldwater, from the formidable presence of the Kennedy brothers to the unimaginable influence of Woodstock, Pulitzer prize-winning author Irwin Unger and journalist Debi Unger present the complexities of a vo...
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Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration

By: Abbott, James A./ Rice, Elaine

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : November 2011

Seller ID: 715688

ISBN-13: 9780471375142

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Firsthand accounts and photographs chronicle the restoration of the White House during the Kennedy Administration. Designing Camelot recounts one of the most influential interior design projects in American history, the restoration of the White House during the Kennedy administration. Fueled by the intense fascination with the charismatic First Family, the project had a profound effect on the popular American imagination and taste in interior furnishings. Emphasizing the historic restoration of each room and the efforts to have these rooms reflect the personalities and tastes of Jack and Jack...
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American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

By: Abbott, Karen

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : March 2012

Seller ID: 350155

ISBN-13: 9780812978513

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a gift for delivering exactly what America needed. With her superb narrative skills and eye for detail, Karen Abbott brings to life an era of ambition, glamour, struggle, and survival. Using exclusive interviews and never-before-published material, she vividly delves into Gypsy's world, in...
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The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America

By: Abbott, Karen

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Crown : August 2019

Seller ID: 581717

ISBN-13: 9780451498625

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy "Gatsby-era noir at its best."--Erik Larson An ID Book Club Selection - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-milliona...
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John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial

By: Abrams, Dan,Fisher, David

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Hanover Square Press : March 2021

Seller ID: 572161

ISBN-13: 9781335996190

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

*NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*"An expert, extremely detailed account of John Adams' finest hour."--Kirkus ReviewsHonoring the 250th Anniversary of the Boston MassacreThe New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln's Last Trial and host of LivePD Dan Abrams and David Fisher tell the story of a trial that would change history.An eye-opening story of America on the edge of revolution.History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country's second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still just a lawyer, fighting for justice in one of the most exp...
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Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History

By: Abutaleb, Yasmeen,Paletta, Damian

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper : June 2021

Seller ID: 723662

ISBN-13: 9780063066052

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Instant #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellerFrom the Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta--the definitive account of the Trump administration's tragic mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the chaos, incompetence, and craven politicization that has led to more than a half million American deaths and counting.Since the day Donald Trump was elected, his critics warned that an unexpected crisis would test the former reality-television host--and they predicted that the president would prove unable to meet the moment. In 2020, that crisis came to pas...
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Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug

By: Abzug, Bella/Zarnow, Leandra Ruth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : November 2019

Seller ID: 589672

ISBN-13: 9780674737488

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bella Abzug's promotion of women's and gay rights, universal childcare, green energy, and more provoked not only fierce opposition from Republicans but a split within her own party. The story of this notorious, galvanizing force in the Democrats' "New Politics" insurgency is a biography for our times. Before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, or Hillary Clinton, there was New York's Bella Abzug. With a fiery rhetorical style forged in the 1960s antiwar movement, Abzug vigorously promoted gender parity, economic justice, and the need to "bring Congress back to the people." The 1970 con...
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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

By: Acheson, Dean

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 741565

ISBN-13: 9780393304121

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Throughout that time Acheson's was one of the most influential minds and strongest wills at work. It was a period that included World War II, the reconstruction of Europe, the Korean War, the development of nuclear power, the formation of the United Nations and NATO. It involved him at close quarters with a cast that starred Truman, Roosevelt, Churchill, de Gaulle, Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Attlee, Eden Bevin, Schuman, Dulles, de Gasperi, Adenauer, Yoshida, Vishinsky, and Molotov.
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Manzanar

By: Adams, Ansel/Hersey, John

Price: $4.00

Publisher: : July 2011

Seller ID: 146837

ISBN-13: 9780679722755

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Education of Henry Adams

By: Adams, Henry

Price: $6.00

Publisher: : June 2016

Seller ID: 779545

ISBN-13: 9780679640103

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time 'I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams, ' said Gore Vidal. 'He was remarkably prescient about the coming horrors.' His political ideals shaped by two presidential ancestors--great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams--Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to the First World War. Printed privately in 1907 and published to wide acclaim shortly after the author&'s death in 1918, The Education of Henry...
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John Quincy Adams: American Visionary

By: Adams, John Q./Kaplan, Fred

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harper : May 2014

Seller ID: 553582

ISBN-13: 9780061915413

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Lincoln, returns with John Quincy Adams, an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked presidents in American history--a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation.In this fresh and lively biography rich in literary analysis and new historical detail, Fred Kaplan brings into focus the dramatic life of John Quincy Adams--the little known and much misunderstood sixth president of the United States and the first son of John and Abigail Adams--and persuasively demonstrates how Adams's ...
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John Quincy Adams: American Visionary

By: Adams, John Q./Kaplan, Fred

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Harper : May 2014

Seller ID: 582239

ISBN-13: 9780061915413

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Lincoln, returns with John Quincy Adams, an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked presidents in American history--a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation.In this fresh and lively biography rich in literary analysis and new historical detail, Fred Kaplan brings into focus the dramatic life of John Quincy Adams--the little known and much misunderstood sixth president of the United States and the first son of John and Abigail Adams--and persuasively demonstrates how Adams's ...
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Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution

By: Adams, Samuel/Puls, Mark

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 813249

ISBN-13: 9780230614000

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the 2007 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would have been no American Revolution. A genius at devising civil protests and political maneuvers that became a trademark of American politics, Adams astutely forced Britain into coercive military measures that ultimately led to the irreversible split in the empire. His remarkable political career addresses all the major issues concerning America's decision to become a nation -- from the notion of taxation without representation to ...
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First Family

By: Adams/Ellis, Joseph J.

Price: $6.50

Publisher: : May 2013

Seller ID: 194827

ISBN-13: 9780307269621

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of "Founding Brothers" and "His Excellency "brings America's preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic's tenuous early years.John and Abigail Adams left an indelible and remarkably preserved portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both Adamses were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was clearly the more gifted of the two), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. Joseph J. Ellis ...
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John Adams

By: Adams/McCullough, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : May 2001

Seller ID: 55220

ISBN-13: 9780684813639

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling biography of America's founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. 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 States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all...
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John Adams

By: Adams/McCullough, David

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : May 2001

Seller ID: 546430

ISBN-13: 9780684813639

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling biography of America's founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. 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 States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all...
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John Adams

By: Adams/McCullough, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : May 2001

Seller ID: 695943

ISBN-13: 9780684813639

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling biography of America's founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. 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 States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all...
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The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters

By: Adams/Nagel, Paul C.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : April 1999

Seller ID: 785486

ISBN-13: 9780674004108

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From his vast storehouse of knowledge about the Adams family. Nagelpulls out the feminine threads of that tapestry to write all about the Adams women, from Abigail to daughter Nabby, from Louisa Catherine Adams, wife of John Quincy, to Clover Adams, wife of Henry, with others making more than cameo appearances. They all lived exceptional, if not extraordinary, lives, in different ways.
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Samuel Adams: A Life

By: Adams/Stoll, Ira

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Free Press : November 2008

Seller ID: 543507

ISBN-13: 9780743299114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this stirring biography, Samuel Adams joins the first tier of founding fathers, a rank he has long deserved. With eloquence equal to that of Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine, and with a passionate love of God, Adams helped ignite the flame of liberty and made sure it glowed even during the Revolution's darkest hours. He was, as Jefferson later observed, "truly the man of the Revolution." In a role that many Americans have not fully appreciated until now, Adams played a pivotal role in the events leading up to the bloody confrontation with the British. Believing that God had willed a free Ame...
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Category: American History