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Packer, George Unwinding: An Inner History Of The New America 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1111610. ISBN #0374534608 / 9780374534608. (filed under: American History ) *
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Packer, George Unwinding: An Inner History Of The New America 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1111610. ISBN #0374534608 / 9780374534608. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The 2013 National Book Award Winner A New York Times Bestseller American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding , George Packer tells the story of the past three decades by journeying through the lives of several Americans, including a son of tobacco farmers who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money, and a Silicon Valley billionaire who arrives at a radical vision of the future. Packer interweaves these stories with sketches of public figures, from Newt Gingrich to Jay-Z, and collages made from newspaper headlines, advertising slogans, and song lyrics. Packer's novelistic and kaleidoscopic history of the new America is his most ambitious work to date.
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Paine, Thomas Common Sense And The Crisis mass market paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or990411. (filed under: American History ) *
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Parkman, Francis Francis Parkman : France and England in North America : Vol. 1: Pioneers of France in the New World, The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, The Old Regime in Canada Library of America 1983 hardcover. nice copy in slipcase. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107971. ISBN #0940450100 / 9780940450103. (filed under: American History ) *
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Parkman, Francis Francis Parkman : France and England in North America : Vol. 1: Pioneers of France in the New World, The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, The Old Regime in Canada Library of America 1983 hardcover. nice copy in slipcase. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107971. ISBN #0940450100 / 9780940450103. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This is the first of two volumes presenting all seven parts of Francis Parkman's monumental narrative history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Thirty years in the writing, Parkman's "history of the American forest" is an accomplishment hardly less awesome than the adventures he describes. This volume begins with the tragic settlement of French Huguenots in Florida, then shifts north as explorers like Samuel de Champlain map the wilderness and wage savage forest warfare against the Iroquois; resolute Jesuits attempt to convert the Indians and suffer captivity, torture, and martyrdom in the wilderness; conflict rages in French Canada between religious extremists and fur traders. Dominating all is the fiercely indomitable La Salle, whose obsession with colonizing the Mississippi Valley leads to vast treks across the western prairie and assassination in a lonely Texas swamp.
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Parkman, Francis Francis Parkman : France and England in North America : Vol. 1: Pioneers of France in the New World, The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, The Old Regime in Canada Library of America 1983 hardcover. some staining to spine. Former owner's initials in ink on slipcover . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1158921. ISBN #0940450100 / 9780940450103. (filed under: American History ) *
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Parkman, Francis Francis Parkman : France and England in North America : Vol. 1: Pioneers of France in the New World, The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, The Old Regime in Canada Library of America 1983 hardcover. some staining to spine. Former owner's initials in ink on slipcover . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1158921. ISBN #0940450100 / 9780940450103. (filed under: American History ) *
stock image, actual book may vary This is the first of two volumes presenting all seven parts of Francis Parkman's monumental narrative history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Thirty years in the writing, Parkman's "history of the American forest" is an accomplishment hardly less awesome than the adventures he describes. This volume begins with the tragic settlement of French Huguenots in Florida, then shifts north as explorers like Samuel de Champlain map the wilderness and wage savage forest warfare against the Iroquois; resolute Jesuits attempt to convert the Indians and suffer captivity, torture, and martyrdom in the wilderness; conflict rages in French Canada between religious extremists and fur traders. Dominating all is the fiercely indomitable La Salle, whose obsession with colonizing the Mississippi Valley leads to vast treks across the western prairie and assassination in a lonely Texas swamp.
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Parkman, Francis Montcalm and Wolfe CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013 paperback. some wrinkling to FFEP. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1166660. ISBN #1470196131 / 9781470196134. (filed under: American History ) *
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Parson, Lynn Hudson The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 Oxford University Press 2009 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164000. ISBN #0195312872 / 9780195312874. (filed under: American History ) *
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Pell, S.H.P. Fort Ticonderoga: A Short History paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092021. (filed under: American History ) *
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Penner, Lucille Recht Eating The Plates: A Pilgrim Book Of Food And Manners Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 1991 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043200. ISBN #0027709019 / 9780027709018. (filed under: American History ) *
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Penner, Lucille Recht Eating The Plates: A Pilgrim Book Of Food And Manners Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 1991 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043200. ISBN #0027709019 / 9780027709018. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A fascinating slice of American history, Eating the Plates describes the customs, manners, and eating habits of the Pilgrims. From the hardships of the settlers' first years in the wilderness, to their eventual success in farming and hunting, the reader is immersed in the sights, sounds, and smells of life in Plymouth. Line drawings and photographs.
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Perkins, Dexter The Monroe Doctrine, 1823-1826. 1965 Edition. Ex-library Edition Peter Smith 1965 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or912255. (filed under: American History ) *
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Perret, Geoffrey America in The Twenties: A History Simon & Schuster 1983 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or974313. ISBN #0671251082 / 9780671251086. (filed under: American History ) *
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Perret, Geoffrey America in The Twenties: A History Simon & Schuster 1983 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or974313. ISBN #0671251082 / 9780671251086. (filed under: American History ) *
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Peterson, Charles (Annotated with Introduction) The Rules of Work of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, 1786: With the Original Copper Plate Illustrations Bell Publishing Co. 1981 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1180232. ISBN #0517138174 / 9780517138175. (keywords: Carpenter's Rule Book) (filed under: American History ) *
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Philbrick, Nathaniel Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, And The Fate Of The American Revolution Penguin Books 2017 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1178573. ISBN #0143110195 / 9780143110194. (filed under: American History ) *
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Philbrick, Nathaniel Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, And The Fate Of The American Revolution Penguin Books 2017 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1178573. ISBN #0143110195 / 9780143110194. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea and Mayflower comes a surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution, and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. "May be one of the greatest what-if books of the age a volume that turns one of America s best-known narratives on its head. Boston Globe "Clear and insightful, it consolidates his reputation as one of America's foremost practitioners of narrative nonfiction." Wall Street Journal In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental Army under an unsure George Washington who had never commanded a large force in battle evacuates New York after a devastating defeat by the British Army. Three weeks later, near the Canadian border, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeds in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have ended the war. Four years later, as the book ends, Washington has vanquished his demons and Arnold has fled to the enemy after a foiled attempt to surrender the American fortress at West Point to the British. After four years of war, America is forced to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from within. Valiant Ambition is a complex, controversial, and dramatic portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation. The focus is on loyalty and personal integrity, evoking a Shakespearean tragedy that unfolds in the key relationship of Washington and Arnold, who is an impulsive but sympathetic hero whose misfortunes at the hands of self-serving politicians fatally destroy his faith in the legitimacy of the rebellion. As a country wary of tyrants suddenly must figure out how it should be led, Washington s unmatched ability to rise above the petty politics of his time enables him to win the war that really matters.
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Pickering, Ernest Homes of America hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1021525. (filed under: American History ) *
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Piereson, James Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism Encounter Books 2009 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1167501. ISBN #1594032580 / 9781594032585. (filed under: American History ) *
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Pietrusza, David 1920: The Year Of The Six Presidents Carroll & Graf 2006 hardcover. lacks jacket. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or801618v1. ISBN #0786716223 / 9780786716227. (filed under: American History ) *
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Pietrusza, David 1920: The Year Of The Six Presidents Carroll & Graf 2006 hardcover. lacks jacket. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or801618v1. ISBN #0786716223 / 9780786716227. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The presidential election of 1920 was one of the most dramatic ever. For the only time in the nation s history, six once-and-future presidents hoped to end up in the White House: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Theodore Roosevelt. It was an election that saw unprecedented levels of publicity the Republicans outspent the Democrats by 4 to 1 and it was the first to garner extensive newspaper and newsreel coverage. It was also the first election in which women could vote. Meanwhile, the 1920 census showed that America had become an urban nation automobiles, mass production, chain stores, and easy credit were transforming the economy and America was limbering up for the most spectacular decade of its history, the roaring 20s. Award-winning historian David Pietrusza s riveting new work presents a dazzling panorama of presidential personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots a picture of modern America at the crossroads. di
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Pitch, Anthony The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814 US Naval Institute Press 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1023451. ISBN #1557506922 / 9781557506924. (filed under: American History ) *
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Pitch, Anthony The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814 US Naval Institute Press 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1023451. ISBN #1557506922 / 9781557506924. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In the hot and humid summer of 1814 British troops completed a fifty-mile march to capture the young American capital, putting to rout along the way pitiful citizen militiamen some in winter gear, others barefoot while President James Madison galloped out of town to safety. Among those remaining, a realization spread that Washington had been "abandoned to a horrid fate". In no time, British arsonists set off an inferno whose glow was seen miles away and from which burn marks are visible today on original stones of the White House. This attack was one of the defining moments in the coming-of-age of the United States, and Anthony Pitch tells the dramatic story with all the immediacy, of an eyewitness account. Painstakingly tracking down firsthand sources and tattered letters, diaries, journals, and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, Pitch has brought this key episode of American history to life in a gripping narrative filled with vivid details. He describes how, after the catastrophe in Washington, a hostage on a British warship named Francis Scott Key wrote an epic poem that later became the national anthem as he viewed the Star-Spangled Banner still flying over embattled Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor Readers of Anthony Pitch's book will experience again the sense of pride and honor felt by Key and all Americans in 1814 as they underwent this national trauma and finally celebrated victory in this Second War of Independence.
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Pitch, Anthony S. The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814 US Naval Institute Press 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or956301. ISBN #1557506922 / 9781557506924. (filed under: American History ) *
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Pitch, Anthony S. The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814 US Naval Institute Press 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or956301. ISBN #1557506922 / 9781557506924. (filed under: American History ) *
stock image, actual book may vary In the hot and humid summer of 1814 British troops completed a fifty-mile march to capture the young American capital, putting to rout along the way pitiful citizen militiamen some in winter gear, others barefoot while President James Madison galloped out of town to safety. Among those remaining, a realization spread that Washington had been "abandoned to a horrid fate". In no time, British arsonists set off an inferno whose glow was seen miles away and from which burn marks are visible today on original stones of the White House. This attack was one of the defining moments in the coming-of-age of the United States, and Anthony Pitch tells the dramatic story with all the immediacy, of an eyewitness account. Painstakingly tracking down firsthand sources and tattered letters, diaries, journals, and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, Pitch has brought this key episode of American history to life in a gripping narrative filled with vivid details. He describes how, after the catastrophe in Washington, a hostage on a British warship named Francis Scott Key wrote an epic poem that later became the national anthem as he viewed the Star-Spangled Banner still flying over embattled Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor Readers of Anthony Pitch's book will experience again the sense of pride and honor felt by Key and all Americans in 1814 as they underwent this national trauma and finally celebrated victory in this Second War of Independence.
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Polacheck, Hilda Satt I Came a Stranger: The Story Of a Hull-House Girl (Women In American History) University of Illinois Press 1991 paperback. Some markings to the text.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149549. ISBN #0252062183 / 9780252062186. (filed under: American History ) *
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Pollack, Norman (editor) Populist Mind The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc 1967 hardcover. . Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1151098. ISBN #0672600765 / 9780672600760. (keywords: PEOPLE S PARTY UNITED STATES POLITICAL SCIENCE PARTIES) (filed under: American History ) *
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Poole, Robert M M.; Poole, Robert M On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery Walker & Company 2009 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170852. ISBN #0802715486 / 9780802715487. (filed under: American History ) *
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Poole, Robert M M.; Poole, Robert M On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery Walker & Company 2009 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170852. ISBN #0802715486 / 9780802715487. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An intimate, behind-the-scenes chronicle of America s most sacred ground. Along Eisenhower Drive, as far as the eye could see, the grave markers formed into bone-white brigades, climbed from the flats of the Potomac River, and scattered over the green Virginia hills in perfect order. They reached Arlington s highest point, where they encircled an old cream-colored mansion with thick columns and a commanding view of the cemetery, the river, and the city beyond. The mansion s flag, just lowered to half-staff, signaled that it was time to start another day of funerals, which would add more than twenty new conscripts to Arlington s army of the dead. So does Robert Poole describe a day like so many others in the long and storied history of Arlington National Cemetery. Created towards the end of our greatest national crucible, the Civil War, its story as revealed in On Hallowed Ground reflects much of America s own over the past century and a half. The mansion at its heart, and the rolling land on which it sits, had been the family plantation of Robert E. Lee before he joined the Confederacy; strategic to the defense of Washington, it became a Union headquarters, a haven for freedmen, and a burial ground for indigent soldiers before Secretary of War Edwin Stanton made it the latest in the newly established national cemetery system. It would become our nation s most honored resting place. No other country makes the effort the United States does to recover and pay tribute to its war dead an effort Poole reveals in poignant details from the aftermaths of the Civil War, Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, and the conflicts in the Gulf and Afghanistan today. Every tombstone at Arlington tells a story: from Private William Christman, the first soldier buried at Arlington on May 13, 1864, to Union General Montgomery Meigs, whose idea Arlington was; from Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, the first casualty of powered flight, to Audie Murphy, America s most decorated soldier; from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, so lovingly tended today, to John F. Kennedy s eternal flame; from scientists and slaves to jurists and generals and tens of thousands of ordinary citizen-warriors, among the more than 300,000 interred on Arlington s 624 acres. Their sagas, and the rites and rituals that have evolved at Arlington the horse-drawn caissons, marble headstones, playing of taps, and rifle salutes speak to us all.
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Porter, Glenn Rise of Big Business, 1860-1910 (American History Ser.) Harlan Davidson, Inc. 1986 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153725. ISBN #0882957503 / 9780882957500. (keywords: BIG BUSINESS ECONOMICS GENERAL, American History) (filed under: American History ) *
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Porter, Glenn The Rise of Big Business 1860-1920 (The American History Series) Third Edition Harlan Davidson, Inc. 2006 paperback. . Underlining / Highlighing throughout. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1175300. ISBN #0882952404 / 9780882952406. (filed under: American History ) *
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Quaife, Milo M.; Weig, Melvin J.; Appleman, Roy E. History of the United States Flag Harper & Row 1961 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1178855. ISBN #1131435044 / 9781131435046. (filed under: American History ) *
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