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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863515Author James F. PetrasFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. Eric Foner takes freedom not as a timeless truth but as a value...

This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow...

"...a major contribution to our knowledge of the place of the Civil War in the history of warfare...I have long hoped for a sound history of Civil War military staffs...I need hope no more; Hagerman has covered this subject also, with the same assured...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637165409Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 462Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm)...

"I too am not a bit tamed-I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300...

As he moseys from east to west, driving slowly, stopping frequently he meets a huge variety of Americans - white, black, Hispanic, Asian, native American; Christian, Muslim, atheist, Mormon, Mennonite; rich, middling, poor. They talk about everything...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632869258Author David J. SilvermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 686g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375752186Author Thomas JeffersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 542gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604865820Author John CurlFormat PaperbackPage Count 582Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 835g

A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's From Reverence to Rape remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it was the day it was first published. Ranging across time and genres from the golden age of Hollywood to films...

"I too am not a bit tamed-I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300...

How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes...

When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels - and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in their...

A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government's anti-communist repression. In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans' fear of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037385Author Peter IronsFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedomThe era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History 2013 and Lincoln Prize 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780307740694Author Allen GuelzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint...

Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, Making the American Self by Daniel Walker Howe, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought, charts the genesis and fascinating trajectory of a central idea in American history. One of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807044292Author Christopher FinanFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955905145Author Jermaine FowlerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Row House PublishingPublisher Row House PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

How does one go about organizing something as complicated as a strategic-missile or space-exploration program? Stephen B. Johnson here explores the answer-systems management-in a groundbreaking study that involves Air Force planners, scientists,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451659177Author Rinker BuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Nonfiction) 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780743431729Author BUNDLESPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &...

Understand everything you need to know about our democratic system-from the Constitution to present-day elections-with The Everything American Government Book.If the confusion following the last presidential election is any indication, the average...

For thirteen violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will (the Indiana State Police had only 41 members, including clerks and typists). Dillinger's daring...

A panoramic history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New EnglandThis book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062278791Author Lecturer in Chemistry John F KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

"Top Gun" became a household name with the worldwide success of the film of the same title. The 1986 blockbuster starring Tom Cruise as a hotshot U.S. Navy fighter pilot was so popular (drawing $356 million worldwide) that recruiters set up desks in...

Call them Native Americans, American Indians, indigenous peoples, or first nations - a vast and diverse array of nations, tribes, and cultures populated every corner of North America long before Columbus arrived. Native American History For Dummies...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them-and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells...

Murkin was the code name chosen by the FBI for their investigation into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. Today, 20 years after the fatal shooting of the civil rights leader, Philip H. Melanson, a renowned authority on American...

An 1797 publication of Enlightenment era thought, read by virtually every American schoolboy in the early 19th century First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions...

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of their skin. That dream has yet to be realized, but some three centuries ago it was a reality. Back then,...

Probably no murder during the 20th century received more media coverage than did the Coo murder trial. The time: 1934. The place: Oneonta, New York.Book InformationISBN 9780925168603Author Niles EgglestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint North...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards 1983.Book InformationISBN 9780679723288Author Maxine Hong KingstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House...

Kennedy and the Berlin Wall tells the full story of the Berlin Crisis that riveted international attention and brought the world to the brink of nuclear warfare as Soviet and American tanks opposed each other on the streets of Berlin. Drawing on the...

New York Times Bestseller! Let Governor Jesse Ventura take you through the paperwork that the US government tried to keep secret from the world-JFK and Vietnam, chemical and biological warfare, Gulf War illness, warnings about 9/11, and more!The official...

North America's Indian peoples have always viewed competitive sport as something more than a pastime. The northeastern Indians' ball-and-stick game that would become lacrosse served both symbolic and practical functions-preparing young men for war,...