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At the close of the Civil War, Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau-formally, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands-to deal with the question of the place in society of its new black citizens. General Oliver Otis Howard, known both...

From the best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin comes this remarkable work that will help redefine our notion of American heroism. Americans have long been obsessed with their heroes, but the men and women dramatically portrayed here are not celebrated...

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A "vivid, well-documented account of the farmworkers movement"(Philadelphia Inquirer) and its prime mover, Cesar Chavez. Edited by Diana Hembree with a foreword by Gary Soto and essays by Carey McWilliams, Victor Villasenor, Alfredo Vea, Jr.,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312577131Author Professor of Modern History Richard ToyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's...

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This powerful new biography presents a portrait of Anne Boleyn different from the unsavory and unflattering accounts of her that have come down through history. Instead, we learn about the real Anne-a woman who was highly literate, accomplished, an...

EDWARD J. SMITH was the celebrated captain who went down with his ship.THOMAS ANDREWS was the great and selfless hero who died saving women and children.BRUCE ISMAY was the selfish coward who caused the ship to sink.When disaster struck on the night of...

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Dean Rusk compared his position as secretary of state in the 1960s to a soldier in a foxhole, defending America against the communist alliance. Author Thomas W. Zeiler writes that the foxhole really represented the universalist ideals Rusk cherished,...

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‘This is a pacey and colourful read … elegantly written.’ – Daisy Dunn, The Times‘The whole book reads rather like a Powell novel, with unexpected meetings and reversals … it is a constant pleasure.’ – Mark Amory, The Spectator‘At a rollicking pace, it...

Silas Talbot’s life illuminates his time—not with greater brightness than the lives of his more famous contemporaries, but with perhaps broader range and greater insight into the experiences and circumstances of a plain citizen of the new republic—a...

Alexander Kinghorne was a child of the Scottish Enlightenment, an agricultural innovator, surveyor, civil engineer and incurable romantic. But at the age of 54, driven by adversity and hope, he chose to take his family to the penal colony of New South...

One night in the year 411/1021, the powerful ruler of the Fatimid empire, al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, rode out of the southern gates of Cairo and was never seen again. Was the caliph murdered, or could he have decided to abandon his royal life, wandering off...

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The definitive biography on Meriwether Lewis by Thomas C. Danisi and John C. Jackson now in paperback for the first time.October 11, 2009 marks the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis's death. As the leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition, an epic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476717197Author Karen BrananFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 145mm * 25mm