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Daughan, George C. Revolution on the Hudson: New York City and the Hudson River Valley in the American War of Independence W. W. Norton & Company 2016 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Previous owners name inking. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1157738. ISBN #0393245721 / 9780393245721. (filed under: American History ) *
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Davis Burke Campaign That Won America: The Story of Yorktown paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096190. (filed under: American History ) *
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Davis, Burke The Campaign That Won America: The Story of Yorktown Eastern National 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1152552. ISBN #9159920203 / 9789159920209. (filed under: American History ) *
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Davis, Kenneth C America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation Harper Paperbacks 2009 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130097. ISBN #0061118192 / 9780061118197. (filed under: American History ) *
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Davis, Kenneth C America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation Harper Paperbacks 2009 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130097. ISBN #0061118192 / 9780061118197. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History , presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Davis's dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths and bringing to light little-known but fascinating facts from a time when the nation's fate hung in the balance. Spanning a period from the Spanish arrival in America to George Washington's inauguration in 1789, America's Hidden History is an iconoclastic look at America's past, connecting some of the dots between history and today's headlines, and proving why Davis is truly America's teacher. Find out: Which Pilgrims arrived in Florida fifty years before the Mayflower sailed. What Supreme Court Justice went to prison. What traitor is honored with a statue for his bravery. Which fighting woman in colonial New England scalped her Indian captors.
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Davis, Kenneth C. Nation Rising: Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America's Hidden History Smithsonian 2010 hardcover. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1161631. ISBN #0061118206 / 9780061118203. (filed under: American History ) *
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Davis, Kenneth C. Nation Rising: Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America's Hidden History Smithsonian 2010 hardcover. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1161631. ISBN #0061118206 / 9780061118203. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Following his New York Times bestseller America's Hidden History , Kenneth C. Davis explores the gritty first half of the nineteenth century among the most tumultuous periods in this nation's short life. In the dramatic period that spans roughly from 1800 through 1850, the United States emerged from its inauspicious beginning as a tiny newborn nation, struggling for survival and political cohesion on the Atlantic seaboard, to a near-empire that spanned the continent. It was a time in which the "dream of our founders" spread in ways that few men of that Revolutionary Generation could possibly have imagined. And it was an era that ultimately led to the great, tragic conflagration that followed the American Civil War. The narratives that form A Nation Rising each exemplify the "hidden history" of America, exploring a vastly more complex path to nationhood than the tidily packaged national myth of a destiny made manifest by visionary political leaders and fearless pioneers. Instead, Davis whose writing People magazine compared to "returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had" explores many historical episodes that reverberate to this day, including Aaron Burr's 1807 trial, showcasing the political intrigue of the early Republic and becoming one of our nation's first media circuses an 1813 Indian uprising and an ensuing massacre that exposes the powerful conflicts at the heart of America's expansion a mutiny aboard the slave ship Creole and the ways in which the institution of slavery both destroyed lives and warped our nation's founding the "Dade Massacre" and the start of the second Seminole War, a long, deadly conflict between Indian tribes, their African American allies, and the emergent U.S. Army the bloody "Bible Riots" in Philadelphia, demonstrating how deadly anti-immigrant sentiment could be the story of Jessie Benton Fr mont and Lt. John C. Fr mont, a remarkable couple who together helped open the West, bring California into the Union, and gave literal shape to the nation today The issues raised in these intertwined stories ambition, power, territorial expansion, slavery, intolerance, civil rights, freedom of the press continue to make headlines. The resulting book is not only riveting storytelling in its own right, but a stirring reminder of the ways in which our history continues to shape our pr
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De Tocqueville, Alexis Democracy In America Wordsworth Classics 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1180292. ISBN #1853264806 / 9781853264801. (filed under: American History ) *
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Diamant, Lincoln Chaining the Hudson: The Fight for the River in the American Revolution Citadel Press 1994 paperback. some fading to front cover along the right side. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1162606. ISBN #080651535X / 9780806515359. (filed under: American History ) *
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Dieffenbacher, Joseph W. and Jeremy T. Midcoast Maine: Cunningham Collection (Images of America) Arcadia 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1166243. ISBN #0738536415 / 9780738536415. (filed under: American History ) *
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Dobbs, Michael One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War Knopf 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1176900. ISBN #1400043581 / 9781400043583. (filed under: American History ) *
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Dobbs, Michael One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War Knopf 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1176900. ISBN #1400043581 / 9781400043583. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour chronicle of those near-fatal days, Dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that illustrate how close we came to Armageddon. Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev s plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guant namo; the accidental overflight of the Soviet Union by an American spy plane; the movement of Soviet nuclear warheads around Cuba during the tensest days of the crisis; the activities of CIA agents inside Cuba; and the crash landing of an American F-106 jet with a live nuclear weapon on board. Dobbs takes us inside the White House and the Kremlin as Kennedy and Khrushchev rational, intelligent men separated by an ocean of ideological suspicion agonize over the possibility of war. He shows how these two leaders recognized the terrifying realities of the nuclear age while Castro never swayed by conventional political considerations demonstrated the messianic ambition of a man selected by history for a unique mission. As the story unfolds, Dobbs brings us onto the decks of American ships patrolling Cuba; inside sweltering Soviet submarines and missile units as they ready their warheads; and onto the streets of Miami, where anti-Castro exiles plot the dictator s overthrow. Based on exhaustive new research and told in breathtaking prose, here is a riveting account of history s most dangerous hours, full of lesson
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Donald, David Herbert Lincoln's Herndon: A Biography 1989 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1115609. ISBN #0306803534 / 9780306803536. (filed under: American History ) *
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Donald, David Herbert Lincoln's Herndon: A Biography 1989 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1115609. ISBN #0306803534 / 9780306803536. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Occasionally a book that begins as a work of scholarship becomes a great and profoundly moving human document. This life of Lincoln's friend, law partner and biographer is such a book. It has a two-fold focus: on the "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" days the days of Lincoln's courting, arguing, and politicking; and on Herndon's long and wracking fight to publish his biography in the face of poverty, drive, and disillusionment, it achieves the impetus and grandeur of tragedy. David Donald has given us a magnificent account of how a country lawyer became a national figure and what happened to the friend he left behind when he became president. An impressive study of mythmakers and mythmaking, this biography of William Henry Herndon, a man intimately connected to movements for abolition of slavery, temperance, religious liberalism, currency reform, and women's rights is also a sweeping picture of America just before, during, and after the Civil War.
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DOUGLAS, Robert B., ed. A French Volunteer of the War Independence (The Chevalier de Pontgibaud) D. Appleton and Company 1898 hardcover. There is staining and shelfwear to the covers. Foxing to the pages. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or823507. (filed under: American History ) *
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Doyle, Don H. The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War Basic Books 2014 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1171966. ISBN #0465029671 / 9780465029679. (filed under: American History ) *
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Doyle, Don H. The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War Basic Books 2014 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1171966. ISBN #0465029671 / 9780465029679. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered model of democracy, would indeed perish from the earth. In The Cause of All Nations , distinguished historian Don H. Doyle explains that the Civil War was viewed abroad as part of a much larger struggle for democracy that spanned the Atlantic Ocean, and had begun with the American and French Revolutions. While battles raged at Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg, a parallel contest took place abroad, both in the marbled courts of power and in the public square. Foreign observers held widely divergent views on the war from radicals such as Karl Marx and Giuseppe Garibaldi who called on the North to fight for liberty and equality, to aristocratic monarchists, who hoped that the collapse of the Union would strike a death blow against democratic movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Nowhere were these monarchist dreams more ominous than in Mexico, where Napoleon III sought to implement his Grand Design for a Latin Catholic empire that would thwart the spread of Anglo-Saxon democracy and use the Confederacy as a buffer state. Hoping to capitalize on public sympathies abroad, both the Union and the Confederacy sent diplomats and special agents overseas: the South to seek recognition and support, and the North to keep European powers from interfering. Confederate agents appealed to those conservative elements who wanted the South to serve as a bulwark against radical egalitarianism. Lincoln and his Union agents overseas learned to appeal to many foreigners by embracing emancipation and casting the Union as the embattled defender of universal republican ideals, the last best hope of earth. A bold account of the international dimensions of America's defining conflict, The Cause of All Nations frames the Civil War as a pivotal moment in a global struggle that would decide the survival of democracy.
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Drehle, David Von Triangle: The Fire That Changed America Grove Press 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164642. ISBN #080214151X / 9780802141514. (filed under: American History ) *
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Drehle, David Von Triangle: The Fire That Changed America Grove Press 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164642. ISBN #080214151X / 9780802141514. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On a beautiful spring day, March 25, 1911, workers were preparing to leave the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village when a fire started. Within minutes it consumed the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside. The final toll was 146 123 of them women. It was the worst disaster in New York City history until September 11, 2001. Harrowing yet compulsively readable, Triangle is both a chronicle of the fire and a vibrant portrait of an entire age. Waves of Jewish and Italian immigrants inundated New York in the early years of the century, filling its slums and supplying its garment factories with cheap, mostly female labor. Protesting their Dickensian work conditions, forty thousand women bravely participated in a massive shirtwaist workers' strike that brought together an unlikely coalition of socialists, socialites, and suffragettes. Von Drehle orchestrates these events into a drama rich in suspense and filled with memorable characters. Most powerfully, he puts a human face on the men and women who died, and shows how the fire dramatically transformed politics and gave rise to urban liberalis
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Duffy, James P. Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt: The Rivalry That Divided America MJF 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144945. ISBN #160671130X / 9781606711309. (filed under: American History ) *
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Duffy, James P. Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt: The Rivalry That Divided America MJF 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144945. ISBN #160671130X / 9781606711309. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Was aviation pioneer and popular American hero Charles A. Lindbergh a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite? Or was he the target of a vicious personal vendetta by President Roosevelt? In Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt , author James Duffy tackles these questions head-on, by examining the conflicting personalities, aspirations, and actions of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles A. Lindbergh. Painting a politically incorrect portrait of both men, Duffy shows how the hostility between these two American giants divided the nation on both domestic and international affairs. From canceling U.S. air mail contracts to intervening in World War II, Lindberg and Roosevelt s clash of ideas and opinions shaped the nation s policies here and abroad. Insightful, and engaging, Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt reveals the untold story about two of history s most controversial men, and how the White House waged a smear campaign against Lindbergh that blighted his reputation forever.
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Duis, Perry R. Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920 University of Illinois Press 1998 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1152830. ISBN #0252023943 / 9780252023941. (filed under: American History ) *
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Dunar, Andrew J.; McBride, Dennis Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History Of The Great Depression 1993 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1055413. ISBN #0805791337 / 9780805791334. (filed under: American History ) *
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Dunar, Andrew J.; McBride, Dennis Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History Of The Great Depression 1993 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1055413. ISBN #0805791337 / 9780805791334. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An engaging oral history of the 31ers who built Hoover Dam and the women who fed them, married them, and shared their lives. Building Hoover Dam is the most intriguing book yet written about one of the modern architectural wonders of the world. Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride skillfully interweave first hand accounts of a fascinating group of eyewitnesses. Their stories create the richest existing portrait of the building of Hoover Dam and its tremendous effect on the lives of those involved in its creation: the gritty, sometimes grisly realities of living in cardboard boxes and tents during several of the hottest Southern Nevada summers still on record; the fearsome carbon monoxide deaths of tunnel builders who, it was claimed, had died of pneumonia; the uproarious life of nearby Las Vegas versus the tightly controlled existence of the workers in the built-overnight confines of Boulder City; and of course the astounding accomplishment of building the dam itself and completing the task not only early but under budget.
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Dupuy, R. Ernest 5 Days To War April 2-6, 1917 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042141. (filed under: American History ) *
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Dwyer, William M. Day Is Ours! How a Ragged Rebel Army Stood The Storm And Saved The Revolution 1983 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1010177. ISBN #0670114464 / 9780670114467. (filed under: American History ) *
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Dwyer, William M. Day Is Ours! How a Ragged Rebel Army Stood The Storm And Saved The Revolution 1983 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1010177. ISBN #0670114464 / 9780670114467. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Day is Ours is a dramatic account of two battles that turned the tide of the American Revolution. In this distinguished, highly readable, and richly detailed narrative history, William M. Dwyer reveals as vivid a picture as we are likely to see of a critical period in the American Revolution. He lets the participants--from American, British, and Hessian soldiers to myriad fearful and ambivalent citizens--tell the story in their own words. "Telling the story from the perspective, and often the words, of men in the ranks, Dwyer has written a dramatic account of this turning point in the American Revolution." --James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom " Dwyer has cast his net wide, taking advantage of newly found or long-obscure accounts published during the celebration of the Revolution's bicentennial. We learn exactly how it was in that momentous time, from letters, diaries and recollections of officers and men on both sides and civilians caught in the middle." --New York Times Book Review "Dwyer has put together a wonderful, lively account that reflects a reporter's respect for quotes from eyewitnesses . . . He presents the facts and lets history speak for itself. The result is enthralling." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "The courage of the common soldier who stayed and fought when the sunshine patriots had all gone home is a story that deserves to be told--and Mr. Dwyer has told it well." --The Wall Street Journal
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Earle, Alice Morse Stage-Coach And Tavern Days Corner House 1977 hardcover. . Ex-Library Copy. Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1041308. ISBN #0879280832 / 9780879280833. (filed under: American History ) *
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Earle, Alice Morse Stage-Coach And Tavern Days Corner House 1977 hardcover. . Ex-Library Copy. Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1041308. ISBN #0879280832 / 9780879280833. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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Editors of Time-Life The American Dream: The 50s Time-Life Books 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1178625. ISBN #0783555008 / 9780783555003. (keywords: American History, Photography) (filed under: American History ) *
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Ellis, Joseph J. Founding Brothers : The Revolutionary Generation Vintage Books 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1159064. ISBN #0375705244 / 9780375705243. (keywords: PRESIDENTS_UNITED STATES STATESMEN_UNITED STATES UNITED) (filed under: American History ) *
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Ellis, Joseph J. Founding Brothers : The Revolutionary Generation Vintage Books 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160706. ISBN #0375705244 / 9780375705243. (keywords: PRESIDENTS_UNITED STATES STATESMEN_UNITED STATES UNITED) (filed under: American History ) *
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Ellsberg, Edward I Have Just Begun To Fight! The Story Of John Paul Jones Dodd, Mead & company 1942 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1010724. (filed under: American History ) *
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