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Wilson, Everett B. Early America at Work : a Pictorial Guide to our Vanishing Occupations A.S. Barnes 1963 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1176472. (keywords: American History) (filed under: American History ) *
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Wilson, Robert A. (Editor); Marcus, Stanley (Editor) American Greats 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109400. ISBN #1891620487 / 9781891620485. (filed under: American History ) *
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Wilson, Robert A. (Editor); Marcus, Stanley (Editor) American Greats 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109400. ISBN #1891620487 / 9781891620485. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Offers in 81 essays illustrated with more than 250 images, a compilation of ideas, people, places and things that they believe help define America's greatness. Offers compelling evidence of the courage and character, invention and resilience, that help define this nation. DLC: U.S.--Civilization Miscellanea.
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Winchester, Simon The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible Harper 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148230v1. ISBN #0062079603 / 9780062079602. (filed under: American History ) *
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Winchester, Simon The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible Harper 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148230v1. ISBN #0062079603 / 9780062079602. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman , delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A. from its beginnings. How did America become one nation, indivisible ? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators, such as Lewis and Clark and the leaders of the Great Surveys; the builders of the first transcontinental telegraph and the powerful civil engineer behind the Interstate Highway System. He treks vast swaths of territory, from Pittsburgh to Portland, Rochester to San Francisco, Seattle to Anchorage, introducing the fascinating people who played a pivotal role in creating today s United States. Throughout, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree. Featuring 32 illustrations throughout the text, The Men Who United the States is a fresh look at the way in which the most powerful nation on earth came together.
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Winik, Jay The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 Harper Perennial 2008 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Remainder Mark. Book #or1204339. ISBN #006008314X / 9780060083144. (filed under: American History ) *
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Wolff, David A. Indudtrializing The Rockies University of Colorado 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1183759. ISBN #0870817477 / 9780870817472. (filed under: American History ) *
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Wood, Gordon S. Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Penguin Press 2017 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1184334. ISBN #0735224714 / 9780735224711. (filed under: American History ) *
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Wood, Gordon S. The American Revolution: A History The Modern Library 2002 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1192164. ISBN #0679640576 / 9780679640578. (filed under: American History ) *
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Wood, Gordon S. The Americanization Of Benjamin Franklin The Penguin Press 2004 hardcover. Dustjacket has some rubbing along edges.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1142189. ISBN #159420019X / 9781594200199. (filed under: American History ) *
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Wood, Gordon S. The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States Penguin Press HC, The 2011 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1199986. ISBN #1594202907 / 9781594202902. (filed under: American History ) *
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Wood, Gordon S. The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States Penguin Press HC, The 2011 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1199986. ISBN #1594202907 / 9781594202902. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. For this reason, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American Revolution is the most important event in our history, bar none. Since American identity is so fluid and not based on any universally shared heritage, we have had to continually return to our nation's founding to understand who we are. In The Idea of America , Wood reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the revolution remains so essential. In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution-from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment-and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy. As Wood reveals, while the founders hoped to create a virtuous republic of yeoman farmers and uninterested leaders, they instead gave birth to a sprawling, licentious, and materialistic popular democracy. Wood also traces the origins of American exceptionalism to this period, revealing how the revolutionary generation, despite living in a distant, sparsely populated country, believed itself to be the most enlightened people on earth. The revolution gave Americans their messianic sense of purpose-and perhaps our continued propensity to promote democracy around the world-because the founders believed their colonial rebellion had universal significance for oppressed peoples everywhere. Yet what may seem like audacity in retrospect reflected the fact that in the eighteenth century republicanism was a truly radical ideology-as radical as Marxism would be in the nineteenth-and one that indeed inspired revolutionaries the world over. Today there exists what Wood calls a terrifying gap between us and the founders, such that it requires almost an act of imagination to fully recapture their era. Because we now take our democracy for granted, it is nearly impossible for us to appreciate how deeply the founders feared their grand experiment in liberty could evolve into monarchy or dissolve into licentiousness. Gracefully written and filled with insight, The Idea of America helps us to recapture the fears and hopes of the revolutionary generation and its attempts to translate those ideals into a working democracy.
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XL; Brinkley, Douglas G. Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchase to Today National Geographic Society 2002 Hard Cover. excellent copy!. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or456780. ISBN #0792269136 / 9780792269137. (keywords: FRONTIER PIONEER LIFE MISSISSIPPI RIVER) (filed under: American History ) *
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Yarnell, Allen Postwar Epoch: Perspectives On American History Since 1945 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1098024. ISBN #006047324X / 9780060473242. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ybarra, Michael J. Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran And The Great American Communist Hunt 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106007. ISBN #1586420658 / 9781586420659. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ybarra, Michael J. Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran And The Great American Communist Hunt 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106007. ISBN #1586420658 / 9781586420659. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary IN THIS SWEEPING, monumental work of American history, journalist Michael J. Ybarra tells the story of Senator Pat McCarran s extraordinary career for the first time, and he vividly re-creates a passionate era of politics that reshaped America and echoes to this day. Brilliantly researched and energetically written, Washington Gone Crazy makes a significant new contribution to our understanding of the United States in the twentieth century. McCarran was one of the most shrewd and powerful and vindictive lawmakers ever to sit in Congress. Joe McCarthy gave his name to the cause of zealous anti-Communism, but it was McCarran, a lifelong Democrat, who actually wrote the laws, held the hearings, and bullied the State and Justice Departments into doing his bidding. McCarran was consumed with looking for Communists in Washington and his obsession almost consumed the country. The son of illiterate Irish immigrants, McCarran was born in 1876 in Nevada, where he grew up to be a sheepherder who taught himself the law around the campfire, becoming a legendary defense attorney and judge. After struggling for years against the local Democratic political machine, McCarran rode Franklin Roosevelt s landslide into the U.S. Senate in 1932 and broke ranks with Roosevelt during the New Deal s first week. But it was President Harry Truman who would become McCarran s real nemesis. A master of parliamentary procedure, McCarran turned his Senate Judiciary Committee into a virtual government within the government. McCarran worked with J. Edgar Hoover to undermine the Truman Administration before McCarthy even got to Washington. He created the most far-reaching anti-sedition law ever enacted in America the McCarran Internal Security Act , which filled Ellis Island with immigrants alleged to be subversives and set up concentration camps to hold suspected traitors in the case of a national emergency. McCarran s Senate Internal Security Subcommittee cowed the State Department into sacrificing the careers of diplomats accused of helping the Communists take over China. McCarran virtually blackmailed more than one attorney general into carrying out his policies. From Capitol Hill to the United Nations, from union halls to Hollywood, McCarran s wrath broke careers and lives and ultimately, in a self-destructive fit of pique, cost his party control of the Senate. Ybarra s even-handed narrative shows that McCarran was ultimately half right: There really were Communists in Washington but it was the hunt for them that did the real damage.
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Young, Dwight Dear Mr. President: Letters To The Oval Office From The Files Of The National Archives 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129614. ISBN #142620020X / 9781426200205. (filed under: American History ) *
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Young, Dwight Dear Mr. President: Letters To The Oval Office From The Files Of The National Archives 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129614. ISBN #142620020X / 9781426200205. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "The letters provide a nostalgic timeline of American history told through the words and feelings of Americans, from regular folks to kings." Star Gazette, Elmira, NY, Dec. '05 "There are more than 80 letters, reflecting both our history and our very American sense that when we speak, our president should listen." The Arizona Republic, Dec. '05 Drawn from the extensive holdings of the National Archives which includes all of the Presidential libraries these carefully chosen letters remind us that ours is a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," which entitles us to make our views known to our leaders. Most of the letters come from working citizens; others were written by notable figures: John Glenn, Elvis Presley, Walt Disney, Ho Chi Minh, Nikita Kruschev, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Robert Kennedy, and many more. Grouped thematically, the sections cover such topics as civil rights, the Cold War, physical fitness, joblessness, World War II, western expansion, and the space race. An introduction by NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and essays by Dwight Young evoke the tenor of the times in which the letters were written. A wonderful gift book for any American, Dear Mr. President is both enlightening and fun to read.
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Youngs, J. William T. American Realities Volume II: Historical Episodes From Reconstruction to the Present Fifth Edition Longman 2001 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1158689. ISBN #0321070968 / 9780321070968. (filed under: American History ) *
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Zacks, Richard The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 Hachette Books 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112504. ISBN #140130849X / 9781401308490. (filed under: American History ) *
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Zacks, Richard The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 Hachette Books 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112504. ISBN #140130849X / 9781401308490. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A real-life thriller, now in paperback -- the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates to their knees In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out on a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. The operation was sanctioned by President Thomas Jefferson, who at the last moment grew wary of "intermeddling" in a foreign government and sent Eaton off without proper national support. Short on supplies, given very little money and only a few men, Eaton and his mission seemed doomed from the start. He triumphed against all odds, recruited a band of European mercenaries in Alexandria, and led them on a march across the Libyan Desert. Once in Tripoli, the ragtag army defeated the local troops and successfully captured Derne, laying the groundwork for the demise of the Barbary Pirates. Now, Richard Zacks brings this important story of America's first overseas covert op to life.
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Zacks, Richard The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, The First Marines, And The Secret Mission Of 1805 Hyperion 2005 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143676. ISBN #140130849X / 9781401308490. (filed under: American History ) *
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