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Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years
$21.99 Add to cartHow did the deeply flawed George W. Bush ascend to the highest office in the nation, what forces abetted his rise, and-perhaps most important-have those forces really been vanquished by Obama’s electi
- Author: Baker, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 17 2009
- ISBN10: 1608190064
- Language: English
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Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
$25.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In this “illuminating” (USA Today) biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush.
“Destiny and Power reflects the… [more below]- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0812979478
- Language: English
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President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler
$44.95 Add to cartHistorians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. In President without a Party–the first full–scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years
- Author: Leahy, Christopher J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0807172545
- Language: English
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The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
$27.99 Add to cart“A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee” (Kirkus Reviews) with a new preface on recent disclosures about efforts to influence the Court
“There’s no- Author: Whitehouse, Sheldon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977389
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A World History
$26.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world
We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born- Author: Westad, Odd Arne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 154167409X
- Language: English
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The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the “rigged” systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and h… [more below]
- Author: Reich, Robert B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593082001
- Language: English
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
$29.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Rich… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0190053763
- Language: English
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The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates
$8.95 Add to cartThe complete texts of the documents that tell the story of the clashes and compromises that gave birth to the Unites States of America.
Should the members of the government be elected by direct vote o- Author: Ketcham, Ralph
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0451528840
- Language: English
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The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America
$18.99 Add to cartThrow out everything you think you know about history. Close the approved textbooks, turn off the corporate mass media, and whatever you do, don’t believe anything you hear from the government. The Ri
- Author: Marrs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0061245593
- Language: English
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Power Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency
$30.00 Read moreA colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often tell us about our national pastimes.
POWER PLAYERS tells all the great sto- Author: Cillizza, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1538720604
- Language: English
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The Best and the Brightest
$25.00 Read moreDavid Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.
“A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”–The New- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0449908704
- Language: English
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Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox
$32.00 Add to cartThe Army of Northern Virginia’s chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands o… [more below]
- Author: Janney, Caroline E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1469663376
- Language: English
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Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution
$59.95 Read morePublished under the auspices of the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution is a narrative history of the War for In
- Author: Warren, Jack D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 149307170X
- Language: English
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Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America
$28.99 Add to cartSince the election of Donald Trump, politicians, historians, intellectuals, and media pundits have been faced with a startling and urgent question: Are we threatened by fascism? Some see striking conn
- Author: Steinmetz-Jenkins, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074396
- Language: English
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We the People!: Big Ideas That Changed the World #4
$14.99 Add to cartAward-winning author Don Brown explores the history of democracy in the United States in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World series.
The Greek word democracy comes from demos (p- Series: Big Ideas That Changed the World #4
- Author: Brown, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1419757385
- Language: English
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Seven Virginians: The Men Who Shaped Our Republic
$34.95 Add to cartSeven Virginians, the culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America’s leading historians, reveals the integral role played by seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American R
- Author: Boles, John B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0813949092
- Language: English
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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
$18.00 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“In her form-shattering and myth-crushing book….Coe examines myths with mirth, and writes history with humor… You Never
AN NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR- Author: Coe, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0735224110
- Language: English
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A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0062370863
- Language: English
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Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People–And the Fight to Resist It
$30.00 Read moreA riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power—and the movement to stop them.
The mob that stormed the Capitol on Janu- Author: Berman, Ari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 037460021X
- Language: English
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
$26.00 Add to cart“Perlstein…aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling.” —Los Angeles Times
“Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of mo- Author: Perlstein, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 074324303X
- Language: English
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