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Klein, Maury Rainbow's End: The Crash Of 1929 2001 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1069290. ISBN #0195135164 / 9780195135169. (filed under: American History ) *
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Klein, Maury Rainbow's End: The Crash Of 1929 2001 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1069290. ISBN #0195135164 / 9780195135169. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The first major history of the Crash in over a decade, Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe. The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine Charley Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, powerful financiers Jack Morgan and Jacob Schiff, Wall Street manipulators such as the legendary Jesse Livermore, and the lavish-living Billy Durant, founder of General Motors. As Klein follows the careers of these men, he shows us how the financial house of cards gradually grew taller, as the irrational exuberance of an earlier age gripped America and convinced us that the market would continue to rise forever. Then, in October 1929, came a "perfect storm"-like convergence of factors that shook Wall Street to its foundations. We relive Black Thursday, when police lined Wall Street, brokers grew hysterical, customers "bellowed like lunatics," and the ticker tape fell hours behind. This is followed by the even worse Bloody Tuesday, when an irrational desire to sell at any price gripped the market and even blue chip stocks plummeted precariously. This compelling history of the Crash--the first to follow the market closely for the two years leading up to the disaster--illuminates a major turning point in our history.
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KOSCIUSZKO, THADDEUS (Subject); Abodaher, David J.; Piszek, EdwardJ. Son of Liberty: Thaddeus Kosciuszko Copernicus Society of America 1968 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or1170287. (filed under: American History ) *
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Kraut, Alan M. Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921 1982 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112295. ISBN #0882958100 / 9780882958101. (filed under: American History ) *
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Kraut, Alan M. Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921 1982 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112295. ISBN #0882958100 / 9780882958101. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This history of the "new immigration" weighs the many factors that prompted the decision to leave the old world. Though the designation "new immigrant" generally refers to southern and eastern Europeans only, this volume also includes the Chinese and Japanese who arrived in the period from 1880-1921. Kraut argues that immigration to America was but one of the many choices available to the immigrants, and that individual aptitude and desires were just as influential as cultural, social, and familial pressures to find a better life. The immigrants' impact on America and their new countrymen is also considered. This title includes a very good, 32-page photographic essay.
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Kristol, Irvinh; Diamond, Martin; Nutter, G. Warren American Revolution : Three Views paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106764. (filed under: American History ) *
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Labunski, Richard James Madison and the Struggle For The Bill of Rights (Pivotal Moments in American History) Oxford University Press 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1168774. ISBN #0195181050 / 9780195181050. (filed under: American History ) *
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Lafeber, Walter America, Russia, And The Cold War, 1945-1992 1992 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1058564. ISBN #0070358532 / 9780070358539. (filed under: American History ) *
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Lafeber, Walter America, Russia, And The Cold War, 1945-1992 1992 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1058564. ISBN #0070358532 / 9780070358539. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Using published material from both public and private sources, this concise text focuses on US Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. This edition includes a new final chapter which considers the Bush administration's foreign policy throughout its first term, the events of the attempted coup in Moscow, and the end of Soviet communism and its effect on US foreign relations throughout the world. In addition, newly available materials have been used in rewriting the section on the 1962 missile crisis.
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Langguth, A.J. Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution Touchstone Books 1989 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155929. ISBN #0671675621 / 9780671675622. (keywords: UNITED STATES HISTORY REVOLUTION 1775) (filed under: American History ) *
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Larson, Erik Devil in the White City crown 2003 paperback. Small tear on back cover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144132. (keywords: world's fair Chicago holmes murder) (filed under: American History ) *
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Laskin, David Children's Blizzard, The HarperCollins 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1154582. ISBN #0060520752 / 9780060520755. (filed under: American History ) *
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Leach, William R. Land Of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture Pantheon 1993 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1054320. ISBN #0394543505 / 9780394543505. (filed under: American History ) *
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Leach, William R. Land Of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture Pantheon 1993 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1054320. ISBN #0394543505 / 9780394543505. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Traces the rise of America's mass-market culture, from its beginnings in the 1890s to its present-day domination of American life. By the author of True Love and Perfect Union. 10,000 first printing. 15,000 ad promo.
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Lears, Jackson Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 Harper 2009 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1165012. ISBN #0060747498 / 9780060747497. (filed under: American History ) *
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Lears, Jackson Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 Harper 2009 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1165012. ISBN #0060747498 / 9780060747497. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Fascinating.... A major work by a leading historian at the top of his game at once engaging and tightly argued." The New York Times Book Review Dazzling cultural history: smart, provocative, and gripping. It is also a book for our times, historically grounded, hopeful, and filled with humane, just, and peaceful possibilities. The Washington Post An illuminating and authoritative history of America in the years between the Civil War and World War I, Jackson Lears s Rebirth of a Nation was named one of the best books of 2009 by The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune , and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette .
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Leavitt, Judith Walzer Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149954. ISBN #0195056906 / 9780195056907. (filed under: American History ) *
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Leckie, Robert Wars Of America, 2 Vols. Castle Books 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Wear from use. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1151433. ISBN #0785809147 / 9780785809142. (filed under: American History ) *
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Leckie, Robert Wars Of America, 2 Vols. Castle Books 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Wear from use. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1151433. ISBN #0785809147 / 9780785809142. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Leckie treats not the causes of our wars, nor the controversies that have always attended them, nor their results, so often equivocal, debatable, or flatly disappointing, but the manner in which they were fought, their leadership, their pages of glory and of shame."--Allan Nevins, Saturday Review.
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Leder, Lawrence Liberty And Authority Quadrangle 1968 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Minimal Notes or Marking. Book #or1178859. (filed under: American History ) *
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LEE; Dowdey, Clifford; Manarin, Louis H. Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee Bramhall House 1961 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Wear from use. Yellowing from age. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or712111. ISBN #0517347458 / 9780517347454. (keywords: CIVIL WAR AMERICAN UNITED STATES) (filed under: American History ) *
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Leonard, Elizabeth D. Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War W. W. Norton & Company 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106962. ISBN #0393048683 / 9780393048681. (filed under: American History ) *
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Leonard, Elizabeth D. Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War W. W. Norton & Company 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106962. ISBN #0393048683 / 9780393048681. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On April 14th 1865, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth, and Secretary of State William H. Seward was brutally stabbed. Clearly, a conspiracy was afoot. Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt was put in charge of the investigation and trial. He first set out to punish all of Booth's accomplices and then wanted to go after Jefferson Davis, whom he felt had instigated the assassination - depite stern opposition, not least from Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson. This book tells the story of the two assassination trials, exploring what made them pivotal in American history. Were they used to make the South pay for secession? Were they to be fair trials based on the evidence? Or were they points of reconciliation, with the South forgiven at all costs to create as solid union.
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Lepore, Jill Name Of War: King Philip's War And The Origins Of American Identity Vintage Books 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1172202. ISBN #0375702628 / 9780375702624. (filed under: American History ) *
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Lepore, Jill Name Of War: King Philip's War And The Origins Of American Identity Vintage Books 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1172202. ISBN #0375702628 / 9780375702624. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war." It all began when Philip called Metacom by his own people , the leader of the Wampanoag Indians, led attacks against English towns in the colony of Plymouth. The war spread quickly, pitting a loose confederation of southeastern Algonquians against a coalition of English colonists. While it raged, colonial armies pursued enemy Indians through the swamps and woods of New England, and Indians attacked English farms and towns from Narragansett Bay to the Connecticut River Valley. Both sides, in fact, had pursued the war seemingly without restraint, killing women and children, torturing captives, and mutilating the dead. The fighting ended after Philip was shot, quartered, and beheaded in August 1676. The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against accusations that they had become savages. But Jill Lepore makes clear that it was after the war--and because of it--that the boundaries between cultures, hitherto blurred, turned into rigid ones. King Philip's War became one of the most written-about wars in our history, and Lepore argues that the words strengthened and hardened feelings that, in turn, strengthened and hardened the enmity between Indians and Anglos. She shows how, as late as the nineteenth century, memories of the war were instrumental in justifying Indian removals--and how in our own century that same war has inspired Indian attempts to preserve "Indianness" as fiercely as the early settlers once struggled to preserve their Englishness. Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves. From the Hardcover edition.
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Lepore, Jill The Name Of War: King Philip's War And The Origins Of American Identity Alfred A. Knopf 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1174471. ISBN #0679446869 / 9780679446866. (filed under: American History ) *
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Lepore, Jill The Name Of War: King Philip's War And The Origins Of American Identity Alfred A. Knopf 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1174471. ISBN #0679446869 / 9780679446866. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war." It all began when Philip called Metacom by his own people , the leader of the Wampanoag Indians, led attacks against English towns in the colony of Plymouth. The war spread quickly, pitting a loose confederation of southeastern Algonquians against a coalition of English colonists. While it raged, colonial armies pursued enemy Indians through the swamps and woods of New England, and Indians attacked English farms and towns from Narragansett Bay to the Connecticut River Valley. Both sides, in fact, had pursued the war seemingly without restraint, killing women and children, torturing captives, and mutilating the dead. The fighting ended after Philip was shot, quartered, and beheaded in August 1676. The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against accusations that they had become savages. But Jill Lepore makes clear that it was after the war--and because of it--that the boundaries between cultures, hitherto blurred, turned into rigid ones. King Philip's War became one of the most written-about wars in our history, and Lepore argues that the words strengthened and hardened feelings that, in turn, strengthened and hardened the enmity between Indians and Anglos. She shows how, as late as the nineteenth century, memories of the war were instrumental in justifying Indian removals--and how in our own century that same war has inspired Indian attempts to preserve "Indianness" as fiercely as the early settlers once struggled to preserve their Englishness. Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves.
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Levy, Andrew The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves Random House 2005 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1135503. ISBN #0375508651 / 9780375508653. (filed under: American History ) *
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Levy, Andrew The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves Random House 2005 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1135503. ISBN #0375508651 / 9780375508653. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Robert Carter III, the grandson of Tidewater legend Robert King Carter, was born into the highest circles of Virginia s Colonial aristocracy. He was neighbor and kin to the Washingtons and Lees and a friend and peer to Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. But on September 5, 1791, Carter severed his ties with this glamorous elite at the stroke of a pen. In a document he called his Deed of Gift, Carter declared his intent to set free nearly five hundred slaves in the largest single act of liberation in the history of American slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation. How did Carter succeed in the very action that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson claimed they fervently desired but were powerless to effect? And why has his name all but vanished from the annals of American history? In this haunting, brilliantly original work, Andrew Levy traces the confluence of circumstance, conviction, war, and passion that led to Carter s extraordinary act. At the dawn of the Revolutionary War, Carter was one of the wealthiest men in America, the owner of tens of thousands of acres of land, factories, ironworks and hundreds of slaves. But incrementally, almost unconsciously, Carter grew to feel that what he possessed was not truly his. In an era of empty Anglican piety, Carter experienced a feverish religious visionthat impelled him to help build a church where blacks and whites were equals. In an age of publicly sanctioned sadism against blacks, he defied convention and extended new protections and privileges to his slaves. As the war ended and his fortunes declined, Carter dedicated himself even more fiercely to liberty, clashing repeatedly with his neighbors, his friends, government officials, and, most poignantly, his own family. But Carter was not the only humane master, nor the sole partisan of freedom, in that freedom-loving age. Why did this troubled, spiritually torn man dare to do what far more visionary slave owners only dreamed of? In answering this question, Andrew Levy teases out the very texture of Carter s life and soul the unspoken passions that divided him from others of his class, and the religious conversion that enabled him to see his black slaves in a new light. Drawing on years of painstaking research, written with grace and fire, The First Emancipator is a portrait of an unsung hero who has finally won his place in American history. It is an astonishing, challenging, and ultimately inspiring book.
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Levy, Elizabeth; Richards, Tad Struggle and lose, struggle and win: The United Mine Workers Four Winds Press 1977 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1182627. ISBN #0590073559 / 9780590073554. (filed under: American History ) *
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