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  • The Best of American Heritage: The Civil War

    Some of America's foremost historians - including Bruce Catton, David McCullough, James McPherson and Stephen Sears tell extraordinary stories of courage, disaster, and triumph in this collection of the best articles from sixty years of American Heritage. The Civil War posed a critical test of the young nation's character, endurance, and will to survive. Coming only two generations after the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ordeal by Hunger

    The Story of the Donner Party

    “Compulsive reading—a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of a horrifying episode in the history of the west.” —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people—men, women, and children—set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the ... Read more

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  • Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement

    The Shocking True Story of the Military Intelligence Failure at Pearl Harbor and the Fourteen Men Responsible for the Disaster

    This account of the top secret investigation is “essential history . . . the authoritative appraisal of why American armed forces met the Japanese attack asleep” (The Christian Science Monitor).On December 6, 1941, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, assured his staff that the Japanese would not attack Pearl Harbor. The next morning, Japanese carriers ... Read more

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  • Men at Work

    The Craft of Baseball

    #1 New York Times Bestseller"A delightful look at all the little things that make major league baseball a subtle spectacle." —Seattle TimesIn his classic tribute to America's pastime, political commentator, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and lifelong sports enthusiast George F. Will travels from the baseball field to the dugout to the locker room to get to the root of the game we all love. He ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

    New York Times BestsellerNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco ChronicleFinalist for the George Washington PrizeFinalist for the Library of Virginia Literary AwardA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection"An important book…[R]ichly rewarding. It is full of fascinating insights about Jefferson." —Gordon S. Wood, New York Review of BooksHailed ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Slave Narratives: Maryland

    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Read more

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  • Here, Right Matters

    An American Story

    Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. Here, Right Matters is a stirring account of Vindman's childhood as an immigrant growing up in New York City, his career in service of his new home on the battlefield ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Lincoln Reconsidered

    Essays on the Civil War Era

    A “brilliant” look at America’s sixteenth president by the New York Times–bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln (American Historical Review).First published in 1956 and revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Lincoln Reconsidered is a masterpiece of Civil War scholarship. In a dozen eloquent, witty, and incisive essays, the author of the definitive biography of Abraham ... Read more

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  • The Populist Explosion

    How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics

    by John B. Judis ...
    **What’s happening in global politics, and is there a thread that ties it all together?There is, and it is called populism.**What is populism? And why have populist parties and candidates suddenly sprung up and even gained power in the United States and Western Europe? The emergence of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, France's Marine LePen, Podemos in Spain, Syriza in Greece, and the Alternative ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ladies of Liberty

    The Women Who Shaped Our Nation

    by Cokie Roberts ...
    In this eye-opening companion volume to her acclaimed history Founding Mothers, number-one New York Times bestselling author and renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society. Recounted with insight and humor, and drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Trump Revealed

    An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power

    A comprehensive biography of Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner in the presidential election campaign. Trump Revealed will be reported by a team of award-winning Washington Post journalists and co-authored by investigative political reporter Michael Kranish and senior editor Marc Fisher.Trump Revealed will offer the most thorough and wide-ranging examination of Donald Trump’s public and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

    “A tour de force.... No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” —Gordon Wood, New York Review of BooksWinner of the Zócalo Book PrizeWinner of the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkman PrizeWinner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize (Nonfiction)Finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Hurston Wright Legacy AwardShortlisted for the ... Read more

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  • Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier

    Best Book Award • Mormon History AssociationA brilliant young historian excavates the brief life of a lost Mormon city, uncovering a “grand, underappreciated saga in American history” (Wall Street Journal).In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, the ... Read more

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  • The Gilded Age

    by Milton Rugoff ...
    "Rugoff's spirited and immensely beguiling book takes a joyful bite out of the nineteenth century." - The New York Times. "King of the Lobbyists" Sam Ward was best known for his talent for throwing parties - courtesy of the U.S. Treasury. And Alva Vanderbilt squandered tens of thousands on one evening to crack the closed social circle of the Mrs. Astor. And when Jay Gould, of Black Friday fame, ... Read more

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  • Scars of Independence

    America's Violent Birth

    by Holger Hoock ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEA magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's founding**The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It’s a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Busting Vegas

    A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds

    by Ben Mezrich ...
    He played in casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer than anyone could possibly imagine -- but it would nearly cost him his life.Semyon Dukach was known as the Darling of Las Vegas. A legend at age twenty-one, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop — ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Goliath

    The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

    by Matt Stoller ...
    “Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business.Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated for the industrial ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Eisenhower

    The White House Years

    by Jim Newton ...
    **“Newton's contribution is as cogent an inventory of Eisenhower's White House years as I've ever read. He blends masterful writing with historic detail and provides the value-added of Ike as the man and the leader.”—Chuck Hagel, Distinguished Professor, Georgetown University; U.S. Senator (1997–2009)Newly discovered and declassified documents make for a surprising and revealing portrait of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War, 3rd Edition

    An In-Depth Look at the Dramatic Course of This Conflict

    A battle ready guide to the deadliest war in American historyCompletely revised for the Sesquicentennial, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Civil War, Third Edition is a comprehensive overview of America's bloodiest war. From the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox, this book embodies the latest scholarship, offering fascinating stories of the men and women who ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Conquest of New Spain

    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    Bernal Diaz was an eyewitness to one of history's most remarkable events - the conquest of the Empire of the Aztecs, and the defeat of their Emperor Montezuma.The indomitable Diaz delivers his chronicle first-hand, vividly describing the ruthless battles, the brilliant Machiavellian strategies of Cortes, and the superstitions vacillations of Montezuma that lead to the momentous overthrow of the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Where I Was From

    A Memoir

    by Joan Didion ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” (The Baltimore Sun), Didion—a native Californian—reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours.Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Lost Empire of Atlantis

    History's Greatest Mystery Revealed

    by Gavin Menzies ...
    “MENZIES [IS] PROPOUNDING ONE OF THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS IN THE HISTORY OF HISTORY.” —New York Times MagazineNew York Times bestselling historian Gavin Menzies presents newly uncovered evidence revealing, conclusively, that “the lost city of Atlantis” was not only real but also at the heart of a highly advanced global empire that reached the shores of America before being violently wiped from ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • The Glory and the Dream

    A New York Times–bestselling historian’s in-depth portrait of life in America, from the Depression era to the early 1970s: “Magnificent” (The New York Times).Award-winning historian and biographer William Manchester, author of The Last Lion, an epic three-volume biography of Winston Churchill, brings us an evocative exploration of the American way of life from 1932 to 1972. Covering almost every ... Read more

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  • Deadly Deceits

    My 25 Years in the CIA

    Series series Forbidden Bookshelf
    A veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency unmasks its culture of lethal lies in this devastating exposé, now with a new foreword by David MacMichael.Ralph W. McGehee was a patriot, dedicated to the American way of life and the international fight against Communism. Following his graduation with honors from Notre Dame, McGehee was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1952 and quickly ... Read more

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