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Maier, Pauline Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 Simon & Schuster 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Remainder Mark. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170898. ISBN #0684868547 / 9780684868547. (filed under: American History ) *
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Maier, Pauline Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 Simon & Schuster 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Remainder Mark. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170898. ISBN #0684868547 / 9780684868547. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal. Elected conventions in at least nine of the thirteen states would have to ratify it before it could take effect. There was reason to doubt whether that would happen. The document we revere today as the foundation of our country s laws, the cornerstone of our legal system, was hotly disputed at the time. Some Americans denounced the Constitution for threatening the liberty that Americans had won at great cost in the Revolutionary War. One group of fiercely patriotic opponents even burned the document in a raucous public demonstration on the Fourth of July. In this splendid new history, Pauline Maier tells the dramatic story of the yearlong battle over ratification that brought such famous founders as Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and Henry together with less well-known Americans who sometimes eloquently and always passionately expressed their hopes and fears for their new country. Men argued in taverns and coffeehouses; women joined the debate in their parlors; broadsides and newspaper stories advocated various points of view and excoriated others. In small towns and counties across the country people read the document carefully and knew it well. Americans seized the opportunity to play a role in shaping the new nation. Then the ratifying conventions chosen by "We the People" scrutinized and debated the Constitution clause by clause. Although many books have been written about the Constitutional Convention, this is the first major history of ratification. It draws on a vast new collection of documents and tells the story with masterful attention to detail in a dynamic narrative. Each state s experience was different, and Maier gives each its due even as she focuses on the four critical states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, and New York, whose approval of the Constitution was crucial to its success. The New Yorker Gilbert Livingston called his participation in the ratification convention the greatest transaction of his life. The hundreds of delegates to the ratifying conventions took their responsibility seriously, and their careful inspection of the Constitution can tell us much today about a document whose meaning continues to be subject to interpretation. Ratification is the story of the founding drama of our nation, superbly told in a history that transports readers back more than two centuries to reveal the convictions and aspirations on which our country was bu
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Manceron, Claude The Wind From America, 1778 - 1781 (The French Revolution II) Alfred A. Knopf 1978 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169494. ISBN #0394498836 / 9780394498836. (keywords: FRANCE POLITICS GOVERNMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY REVOLUTION 1775 1783 FRENCH PARTICIPATION YORKTOWN VIRGINIA SIEGE 1781 REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD 1800 POLITICAL SCIENCE GENERAL) (filed under: American History ) *
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Manchester, William Glory and the Dream, a Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 Bantam 1980 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1182049. ISBN #0553345893 / 9780553345896. (keywords: ANECDOTAL HISTORICAL ANECDOTES) (filed under: American History ) *
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Marker, Sherry America Then & Now Barnes & Noble Books 1993 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1182828. ISBN #1566192218 / 9781566192217. (keywords: PICTORIAL NOSTALGIA HISTORY UNITED STATES AMERICA PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHS ARCHITECTURE RECORD) (filed under: American History ) *
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Martin, James Kirby (edited by) Human Dimensions of Nation Making: Essays on Colonial and Revolutionary America Wisconsin Historical Society Press 1976 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1041754. ISBN #0870201581 / 9780870201585. (filed under: American History ) *
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Martin, James Kirby (edited by) Human Dimensions of Nation Making: Essays on Colonial and Revolutionary America Wisconsin Historical Society Press 1976 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1041754. ISBN #0870201581 / 9780870201585. (filed under: American History ) *
This collection of original essays about the early years of the American experience has been prepared to honor Professor Merrill Jensen, who has tirelessly served his craft of history in distinguished fashion during a long and admirable career, both as a publishing scholar and as a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin. Each of the essays stands as an individual entity and advances historical knowledge. Two introductory pieces serve to place Merrill Jensen among his peers and evaluate the impact of his scholarship on dominant historical themes. Eleven other research essays touch on issues as various as the characteristics of imperial administrators in British North America during the colonial years, the role of courts in facilitating the outbreak of the American Revolution, the impact of sectional forces on Revolutionary politics, and the failure to provide for an effective militia system in post-revolutionary America. Prepared by Merrill Jensen s former students, the essays represent a rich mixture of topical, methodological and analytical concerns. Through the years Professor Jensen has encouraged such diversity. Setting his students to reading primary sources, he taught them that fresh insights would result from naked exposure to the sources. Through his own writing, he demonstrated to them and to others that human relationships were complex and, above all else, that human beings rather than mindless forces were at the heart of the many dimensions of history. It is in this spirit that these essays have been prepared and presented to a foremost scholar of the era of the American Revolution. Distributed for the Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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Martin, James Kirby; Lender, Mark Edward A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-1789 Harlan Davidson 1982 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1091212. ISBN #0882958127 / 9780882958125. (filed under: American History ) *
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Martin, James Kirby; Lender, Mark Edward A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-1789 Harlan Davidson 1982 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1091212. ISBN #0882958127 / 9780882958125. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Main headings: Of Lexington and Concord, and the myths of the war, 1763--1775; The Republican war, 1775--1776; Toward an American standing army, 1776--1777; On and off the road of despair, 1777--1779; Moral defeat and military turnabout, 1779--1781; Of war, national legitimacy, and the Republican order, 1781--1789.
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Marx, Leo Pilot And The Passenger: Essays On Literature, Technology, And Culture in The United States 1989 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1131711. ISBN #0195048768 / 9780195048766. (filed under: American History ) *
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Marx, Leo Pilot And The Passenger: Essays On Literature, Technology, And Culture in The United States 1989 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1131711. ISBN #0195048768 / 9780195048766. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary For over forty years, Leo Marx has studied American culture as a dialectical process, a fruitful contest between conflicting ways of seeing the world and expressing its meaning. The Pilot and the Passenger , a collection of essays spanning Marx's career, explores the meaning of this contest as it makes itself felt in America's literature, technology, and cultural politics. Marx first examines such major writers as Melville, Thoreau, Mark Twain, and Frost, revealing how each responded to the contraries of American culture. He then considers certain larger controversies generated by science, technology, and urban industrialism. He concludes with a section on modern criticism, including a moving reminiscence of F.O. Matthiessen and a study of Susan Sontag's account of the Vietnam War.
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Matthews, Jack Tales of the Ohio Land Ohio Historical Society 1978 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1164608. ISBN #0877580111 / 9780877580119. (filed under: American History ) *
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May, Henry F. End Of American Innocence: A Study Of The First Years Of Our Own Time 1912-1917 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112293. (filed under: American History ) *
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May, Lowell; Myers, Richard Slaughter in Serene: the Columbine Coal Strike Reader Bread and Roses Workers' Cultural Center & Industrial Workers of the World 2005 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1181229. ISBN #0917124014 / 9780917124013. (filed under: American History ) *
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McBurney, Christian M. Kidnapping The Enemy: The Special Operations To Capture Generals Charles Lee & Richard Prescott 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095048. ISBN #1594161836 / 9781594161834. (filed under: American History ) *
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McBurney, Christian M. Kidnapping The Enemy: The Special Operations To Capture Generals Charles Lee & Richard Prescott 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095048. ISBN #1594161836 / 9781594161834. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Daring Raid to Kidnap a British General in Order to Gain Freedom for the Highest Ranking Continental Officer Captured During the American Revolution On the night of December 12, 1776, while on a reconnaissance mission in New Jersey, Lieutenant Colonel William Harcourt and Cornet Banastre Tarleton of the British dragoons learned from Loyalist informers that Major General Charles Lee, the second-in-command in the Continental army behind only George Washington, was staying at a tavern at nearby Basking Ridge. Gaining valuable information as they rode, by threatening captured American soldiers with death if Lee s whereabouts was not revealed, Harcourt and Tarleton, surrounded the tavern, and after a short but violent struggle, captured him. The dragoons returned through a hostile country by a different route, arriving safely at their British post at New Brunswick with their quarry in hand. With Lee s capture, the British were confident the rebellion would soon be over. Stung by Lee s kidnapping, the Americans decided to respond with their own special operation, perhaps the most outstanding one of the war. On the dark night of July 10, 1777, Lieutenant Colonel William Barton led a handpicked party in whaleboats across Narragansett Bay carefully avoiding British navy ships to Newport, Rhode Island. Although the town was occupied by more than 3,000 enemy soldiers, after landing Barton led his men up a hidden path and stealthily hurried to a farmhouse where General Richard Prescott had taken to spending nights. Surrounding the house, they forced open the doors and seized the sleeping Prescott, as well as his aidede- camp and a sentry, and then quickly returned to their waiting boats. Despite British artillerymen firing rockets and cannon to alert the British vessels in the bay, the bold band of Americans reached the mainland safely. Not only had Barton kidnapped a British major general who could be exchanged for Lee, he had removed from action a man who had gained a reputation for his harsh treatment of American Patriots. In Kidnapping the Enemy: The Special Operations to Capture Generals Charles Lee and Richard Prescott , Christian M. McBurney relates the full story of each of these remarkable raids, the subsequent exchange of the two generals, and the impact of these kidnappings on the Revolutionary War. He then follows the subsequent careers of the major players, including Lee, Barton, Prescott, and Tarleton. The author completes his narrative with descriptions of other attempts to kidnap high-ranking military officers and government officials during the war, including ones organized by and against George Washington. The low success rate of these operations makes the raids that captured Lee and Prescott even more impressive.
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MCCARTHY; Herman, Arthur Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining The Life And Legacy Of America's Most Hated Senator Free Press 1999 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1171822. ISBN #0684836254 / 9780684836256. (filed under: American History ) *
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MCCARTHY; Herman, Arthur Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining The Life And Legacy Of America's Most Hated Senator Free Press 1999 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1171822. ISBN #0684836254 / 9780684836256. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Was Joe McCarthy a bellicose, shameless witch-hunter who whipped up hysteria, ruined the reputation of innocents, and unleashed a destructive carnival of smears and guilt-by-association accusations? Were McCarthy and McCarthyism the worst things to happen to American politics in the postwar era? Or was McCarthy just a well-intentioned politician who seized a legitimate issue with the fervor of a true believer? Perhaps something in between. For the first time, here is a biography of Joe McCarthy that cuts through the cliches and misconceptions surrounding this central figure of the "red scare" of the fifties, and reexamines his life and legacy in the, light of newly declassified archival sources from the FBI, the National Security Agency, the U.S. Congress, the Pentagon, and the former Soviet Union. After more than four decades, here is the untold story of America's most hated political figure, shorn of the rhetoric and stereotypes of the past. "Joseph McCarthy" explains how this farm boy from Wisconsin sprang up from a newly confident postwar America, and how he embodied the hopes and anxieties of a generation caught in the toils of the Cold War. It shows how McCarthy used the explosive issue of Communist spying in the thirties and forties to challenge the Washington political establishment and catapult himself into the headlines. Above all, it gives us a picture of the red scare far different from and more accurate than the one typically portrayed in the news media and the movies. We now know that the Communist spying McCarthy fought against was amazingly extensive -- reaching to the highest levels of the White House and the top-secret Manhattan Project. Herman hasthe facts to show in detail which of McCarthy's famous anti-Communist investigations were on target such as the notorious cases of Owen Lattimore and Irving Peress, the Army's "pink dentist" and which were not including the case that led to McCarthy's final break with Whittaker Chambers . When McCarthy accused two American employees of the United Nations of being Communists, he was widely criticized -- but he was right. When McCarthy called Owen Lattimore "Moscow's top spy," he was again assailed -- but we now know Lattimore was a witting aid to Soviet espionage networks. McCarthy often overreached himself. "But McCarthy was often right." In "Joseph McCarthy," Arthur Herman reveals the human drama of a fascinating, troubled, and self-destructive man who was often more right than wrong, and yet in the end did more harm than good.
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McCartney, Laton The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country Random House Trade Paperbacks 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164358. ISBN #0812973372 / 9780812973372. (filed under: American History ) *
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McCullough, David 1776 Simon & Schuster 2005 hardcover. . Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1176011. ISBN #0743226712 / 9780743226714. (filed under: American History ) *
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McCullough, David 1776 Simon & Schuster 2005 hardcover. . Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1176011. ISBN #0743226712 / 9780743226714. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this stirring book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King's men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. Here also is the Revolution as experienced by American Loyalists, Hessian mercenaries, politicians, preachers, traitors, spies, men and women of all kinds caught in the paths of war. At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books -- Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. The book begins in London on October 26, 1775, when His Majesty King George III went before Parliament to declare America in rebellion and to affirm his resolve to crush it. From there the story moves to the Siege of Boston and its astonishing outcome, then to New York, where British ships and British troops appear in numbers never imagined and the newly proclaimed Continental Army confronts the enemy for the first time. David McCullough's vivid rendering of the Battle of Brooklyn and the daring American escape that followed is a part of the book few readers will ever forget. As the crucial weeks pass, defeat follows defeat, and in the long retreat across New Jersey, all hope seems gone, until Washington launches the "brilliant stroke" that will change history. The darkest hours of that tumultuous year were as dark as any Americans have known. Especially in our own tumultuous time, 1776 is powerful testimony to how much is owed to a rare few in that brave founding epoch, and what a miracle it was that things turned out as they did. Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough's 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history.
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McCullough, David 1776 Simon & Schuster 2006 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1180663. ISBN #0743226720 / 9780743226721. (keywords: UNITED STATES_HISTORY_REVOLUTION, 1775-1783) (filed under: American History ) *
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McCullough, David 1776 Simon & Schuster 2006 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1174732. ISBN #0743226720 / 9780743226721. (keywords: UNITED STATES_HISTORY_REVOLUTION, 1775-1783) (filed under: American History ) *
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McCullough, David Johnstown Flood 1987 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122888v1. ISBN #0671207148 / 9780671207144. (filed under: American History ) *
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McCullough, David Johnstown Flood 1987 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122888v1. ISBN #0671207148 / 9780671207144. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough's remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
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McCullough, David Willis Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge Simon & Schuster 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Remainder Mark. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162330. ISBN #0743217373 / 9780743217378. (keywords: NEW YORK CITY STRUCTURES CONSTRUCTION HISTORY) (filed under: American History ) *
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McDaniel, Colleen The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840-1900 Indiana University Press 1994 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1155617. (filed under: American History ) *
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McDougal, Jim; Wilkie, Curtis Arkansas Mischief: The Birth Of a National Scandal 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1011202. ISBN #0805058087 / 9780805058086. (filed under: American History ) *
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McDougal, Jim; Wilkie, Curtis Arkansas Mischief: The Birth Of a National Scandal 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1011202. ISBN #0805058087 / 9780805058086. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An eye-opening account of the Arkansas years by President Clinton's legendary political and business mentor. Until his recent death in federal prison, Jim McDougal was the irrepressible ghost of the Clintons' Arkansas past. McDougal's knowledge of embarrassing real estate and banking deals, bribes, and obstructions of justice have long haunted the White House. Completed only days before his death and co-authored by veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie, Jim McDougal's vivid and irreverant self-portrait reveals the hidden intersections of politics and special interests in Arkansas and the betrayals that followed. It is the story of how ambitious men and women climbed out of rural obscurity and "how friendships break down and lives are ruined." Mr. McDougal, an irascible and charming rogue to the end, never whines nor does he endeavor to exonerate himself. And, though image-shattering, there's no attempt to get Bill or Hillary Clinton, Jim Blair, Jim Guy Tucker, or the silenced Susan McDougal. Arkansas Mischief is a Southern tragedy with lessons for us all.
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