Historical
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The Wright Brothers
$19.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize–the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly–Wilbur
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 03, 2016
- ISBN10: 1476728755
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
$35.00 Add to cartThis “glorious” revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)–the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American
- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0316441112
- Language: English
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Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir
$32.00 Add to cartLast of the Lions is two histories woven into one remarkable story. It’s a personal journey–the evocative life of Clarence B. Jones, from his depression- and segregation-era upbringing at the hands o
- Author: Jones, Clarence B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 411
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1952485932
- Language: English
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Flight of the Wasp: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class
$30.00 Read moreFifteen families.
Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in
America’s history.For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph
Alsop to the editors of Politic- Author: Gross, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161863
- Language: English
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Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
$35.00 Add to cartFinalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography
A “compelling portrait” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) of the controversial C
American Battlefield Trust Prize for History Finalist- Author: Varon, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982148276
- Language: English
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King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father
$29.95 Add to cartA rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose measured pragmatism helped make American independence a reality.
Americans are surprisingly more familiar with his famous signature than with th- Author: Barbier, Brooke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0674271777
- Language: English
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Kissinger: A Biography
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and how his ideas still resonate in the world today from the bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs.By the time Henry Kis… [more below]
- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: September 27, 2005
- ISBN10: 0743286979
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
$21.99 Add to cartThis “glorious” revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)–the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American
- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316441090
- Language: English
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
$38.00 Add to cartThe definitive edition of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book hist… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Spiegelman, Art
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0679406417
- Language: English
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Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves
$24.95 Add to cartIn The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the “most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country.” That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life enslave… [more below]
- Series: Race and Ethnicity in the American West
- Author: Burton, Arthur T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496233425
- Language: English
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About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
$28.00 Add to cartCalled “everything a war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this all-time classic of the military memoir genre now includes a new forward from bestselling author and retired Navy SEAL Jo
- Author: Hackworth, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 29, 2020
- ISBN10: 1982144041
- Language: English
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The Pillow Book
$20.00 Add to cartThe classic portrayal of court life in tenth-century Japan
Written by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, ostensibly for her own amusement, The Pillow Book offers a fascinating exploration of life am- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Shonagon, Sei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0140448063
- Language: English
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The Early Life and Times of David Crockett in East Tennessee: A Lifelong Study
$16.95 Add to cartDavid Crockett was one of America’s first national celebrities. He carved out a name for himself from the Western frontier lands of East Tennessee to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C. He did t
- Author: Swann, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: November 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1961302209
- Language: English
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A Promised Land
$45.00 Add to cartA riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making–from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE – NAMED O- Author: Obama, Barack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1524763160
- Language: English
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Prometeo Americano. El Libro Que Inspiró La PelÃcula Oppenheimer / American Prom Etheus
$29.95 Read morePremio Pulitzer 2006 / National Book Critics Circle Award 2005 / Duff Cooper Prize 2008
La biograf?a definitiva de Oppenheimer, el p
EL LIBRO QUE HA INSPIRADO LA NUEVA PELICULA DE NOLAN, OPPENHEIMER- Author: Bird, Kai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 8418967986
- Language: Spanish
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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
$21.00 Add to cartTHE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL.
In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remar- Author: Harrington, Joel F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 31, 2013
- ISBN10: 1250043611
- Language: English
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Cleopatra: A Life
$21.99 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.
Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 06, 2011
- ISBN10: 0316001945
- Language: English
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The Dry Divide
$16.95 Add to cartRalph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses a
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0803282168
- Language: English
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The Genius of Their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment
$32.99 Add to cartA vibrant portrait of an age when Arabic enlightenment anticipated and inspired the European Renaissance, illuminated by its guiding figures and rivals, Ibn Sina and Biruni.
In The Genius of their Age,… [more below]- Author: Starr, S. Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0197675557
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies
$25.00 Add to cartNational Bestseller
NPR Best Book of the Year
“Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.” —The New York Times
Joining the ranks
- Author: Fagone, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 28, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062430513
- Language: English
