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Achenbach, Joel Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac And The Race To The West Simon & Schuster 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or958989. ISBN #0684848570 / 9780684848570. (filed under: American History ) *
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Achenbach, Joel Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac And The Race To The West Simon & Schuster 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or958989. ISBN #0684848570 / 9780684848570. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The war had been won. Now what? This was the pressing political question for the United States in 1784, and a consuming one for George Washington. He had laid down his sword and returned home to Mount Vernon after eight and a half years as commander of the Continental Army. He vowed that he had retired forever, that he would be a farmer on the bank of the Potomac River, under his own "vine and fig tree." But history was not done with him, and he was not done with history. Within a year, as Joel Achenbach relates in this stunning narrative, Washington saddled up and rode away on one of the most daring journeys of his rich and adventurous life: a trek across the Appalachian mountains to the frontier, where he would inspect his long-neglected western property and try to collect rent. The Grand Idea is the story of Washington's ambitions for the brand-new republic that he had fought so hard to create. His western journey culminates in a breathtaking scheme: Washington, with the help of Thomas Jefferson, will transform the Potomac River into a commercial artery that will link the new West to the old East. Worried that the newborn country was so fragmented that it might literally split into two separate and rival nations, he uses the skills he learned as a young backwoods surveyor to come up with his river plan. The future of the Union, Washington believes, depends on the Potomac route to the West, which will bind the country to one enterprise. Achenbach's sympathetic and wry portrait of General Washington is not the stiff figure of official portraits, but that of a bold man who plunges into uncharted forest and sleeps in a downpour with only his cloak for shelter. He is an inventor, entrepreneur, and land speculator. He loves the West. This Washington is someone who understands that the fledgling republic clinging to the Atlantic seaboard will become a great and booming nation. Achenbach tracks Washington's river plan from the choosing of the site for the national capital, which led to his being elected as the first president, to its link, decades after his death, to various grandiose plans for a canal that would run hundreds of miles. Ultimately the dream of a Potomac route to the West is abandoned. The nation splits not East and West but North and South, and the river becomes a boundary between warring sides in the Civil War. Like such classics as Undaunted Courage and Founding Brothers, Achenbach's The Grand Idea is a large narrative of a great man and his grand plan that captures the uncertainties and conflicts of the new country, the passions of an ambitious people, and the seemingly endless beauty of the American landscape.
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Achenbach, Joel The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West Simon & Schuster 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1072890. ISBN #0684848570 / 9780684848570. (filed under: American History ) *
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Achenbach, Joel The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West Simon & Schuster 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1072890. ISBN #0684848570 / 9780684848570. (filed under: American History ) *
stock image, actual book may vary The war had been won. Now what? This was the pressing political question for the United States in 1784, and a consuming one for George Washington. He had laid down his sword and returned home to Mount Vernon after eight and a half years as commander of the Continental Army. He vowed that he had retired forever, that he would be a farmer on the bank of the Potomac River, under his own "vine and fig tree." But history was not done with him, and he was not done with history. Within a year, as Joel Achenbach relates in this stunning narrative, Washington saddled up and rode away on one of the most daring journeys of his rich and adventurous life: a trek across the Appalachian mountains to the frontier, where he would inspect his long-neglected western property and try to collect rent. The Grand Idea is the story of Washington's ambitions for the brand-new republic that he had fought so hard to create. His western journey culminates in a breathtaking scheme: Washington, with the help of Thomas Jefferson, will transform the Potomac River into a commercial artery that will link the new West to the old East. Worried that the newborn country was so fragmented that it might literally split into two separate and rival nations, he uses the skills he learned as a young backwoods surveyor to come up with his river plan. The future of the Union, Washington believes, depends on the Potomac route to the West, which will bind the country to one enterprise. Achenbach's sympathetic and wry portrait of General Washington is not the stiff figure of official portraits, but that of a bold man who plunges into uncharted forest and sleeps in a downpour with only his cloak for shelter. He is an inventor, entrepreneur, and land speculator. He loves the West. This Washington is someone who understands that the fledgling republic clinging to the Atlantic seaboard will become a great and booming nation. Achenbach tracks Washington's river plan from the choosing of the site for the national capital, which led to his being elected as the first president, to its link, decades after his death, to various grandiose plans for a canal that would run hundreds of miles. Ultimately the dream of a Potomac route to the West is abandoned. The nation splits not East and West but North and South, and the river becomes a boundary between warring sides in the Civil War. Like such classics as Undaunted Courage and Founding Brothers, Achenbach's The Grand Idea is a large narrative of a great man and his grand plan that captures the uncertainties and conflicts of the new country, the passions of an ambitious people, and the seemingly endless beauty of the American landscape.
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Ackerman, Kenneth D. Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, & Black Friday, 1869 1990 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1072295. ISBN #0887304362 / 9780887304361. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ackerman, Kenneth D. Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, & Black Friday, 1869 1990 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1072295. ISBN #0887304362 / 9780887304361. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In The Gold Ring, Capitol Hill veteran Kenneth D. Ackerman tells the story of two dazzling con men who rose to the top of the Erie Railway Company before fixing their ambitions on a scam so great it would make them two of the richest men in America and cement their reputation as two of the most corrupt. They were Jay Gould, the ruthless self-promoter who came to be recognized as the most hated, if brilliant, man of his generation, and his partner, the extravagant showman Jim Fisk, whose insatiable indulgences finally led to his demise. Featuring a cast of supporting characters that includes Boss Tweed, Albert Cardozo, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Ulysses S. Grant, The Gold Ring evokes an age of scandal and depravity in the world of high finance that makes today's climate of corporate excess and deception seem positively tame by comparison. Featuring numerous historic photographs, this is a compelling and fiercely entertaining insight into Wall Street's early years.
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Allen, Frederick Lewis Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 To September 3, 1939 1986 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1023950. ISBN #0060913223 / 9780060913229. (filed under: American History ) *
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Allen, Frederick Lewis Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 To September 3, 1939 1986 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1023950. ISBN #0060913223 / 9780060913229. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession."-- Saturday Review
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Allen, Leslie Liberty: The Statue And The American Dream hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082045. (filed under: American History ) *
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Allen, Robert S. (Editor) Our Sovereign State hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1061706. (filed under: American History ) *
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Allgor, Catherine A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation Henry Holt and Co. 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1126539. ISBN #0805073272 / 9780805073270. (filed under: American History ) *
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Allgor, Catherine A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation Henry Holt and Co. 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1126539. ISBN #0805073272 / 9780805073270. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An extraordinary American comes to life in this vivid, groundbreaking portrait of the early days of the republic--and the birth of modern politics When the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of American politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation's newly minted capital. Into that unsteady atmosphere, which would soon enough erupt into another conflict with Britain in 1812, Dolley Madison arrived, alongside her husband, James. Within a few years, she had mastered both the social and political intricacies of the city, and by her death in 1849 was the most celebrated person in Washington. And yet, to most Americans, she's best known for saving a portrait from the burning White House, or as the namesake for a line of ice cream. Why did her contemporaries give so much adulation to a lady so little known today? In A Perfect Union , Catherine Allgor reveals that while Dolley's gender prevented her from openly playing politics, those very constraints of womanhood allowed her to construct an American democratic ruling style, and to achieve her husband's political goals. And the way that she did so--by emphasizing cooperation over coercion, building bridges instead of bunkers--has left us with not only an important story about our past but a model for a modern form of politics. Introducing a major new American historian, A Perfect Union is both an illuminating portrait of an unsung founder of our democracy, and a vivid account of a little-explored time in our history.
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Allgor, Catherine A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation Holt Paperbacks 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1073334. ISBN #0805083006 / 9780805083002. (filed under: American History ) *
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Allgor, Catherine A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation Holt Paperbacks 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1073334. ISBN #0805083006 / 9780805083002. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Delightful and discerning . . . In this evocative study a remarkable woman, creator of the first lady' role, comes vividly to life." The New York Times When the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation's capital. Into that unsteady atmosphere which would soon enough erupt into another conflict with Britain Dolley Madison arrived, alongside her husband, James. Within a few years, she had mastered both the social and political intricacies of the city, and by her death in 1849 was the most celebrated person in Washington. And yet, to most Americans, she's best known for saving a portrait from the burning White House. Why did her contemporaries so admire a lady so little known today? In A Perfect Union , acclaimed historian Catherine Allgor reveals how Dolley manipulated the contstraints of her gender to construct an American democratic ruling style and to achieve her husband's political goals. By emphasizing cooperation over coercion building bridges instead of bunkers she left us with not only an important story about our past but a model for a modern form of politics.
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Ambrose, Stephen E. Americans at War University Press of Mississippi 1997 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1004617. ISBN #1578060265 / 9781578060269. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ambrose, Stephen E. Americans at War University Press of Mississippi 1997 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1004617. ISBN #1578060265 / 9781578060269. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In the turbulent history of America each era has been delineated by a war. Although World War II has been the backdrop for most of his writing, perhaps no other historian has focused on modern America at war so strikingly as Stephen E. Ambrose. In this fascinating collection of fifteen essays Ambrose ranges over the many wars that have enveloped Americans and depicts the personalities of American leaders during wartime: Custer, Eisenhower, Patton, Mac-Arthur, Franklin Roosevelt, and Nixon. "All nations make war in their own way," he says. "The American way is the theme of these essays." Two large subjects encompass his research: First, he is fascinated by the experiences of those who have gone to war, both the leaders and the led, and, as he shows in "Just Dumb Luck: American Entry into World War II," he is intrigued by men who make big decisions or fail to make them. Generals alone don't win wars. The infantrymen, as he points out in "SIGINT: Deception and the Liberation of Western Europe," were responsible for winning World War II, not those who were involved in intelligence operations. Soldiers who break under strain "My Lai: Atrocities in Historical Perspective" also get his fair and compassionate examination. Although many of the pieces in this collection focus on World War II, Ambrose also explores the Civil War "Struggle for Vicksburg: The Battles and Siege that Decided the Civil War" , the Vietnam War an undertaking different from earlier American wars , and war in general- actual wars of the past as well as hypothetical wars "War in the Twenty-first Century" . He includes one of quite recent times "The Cold War in Perspective" in which fighting was not confined to the battlefield. Because democracies employ teamwork, he believes they are by far the most efficient governments for the fighting of war. Ambrose writes that on occasion he has changed his mind about certain big questions "The Atomic Bomb and Its Consequences" . Should atomic bombs have been dropped on Japan? Changes of opinion, he says, come during research, one of the exciting features of studying history in a free country. "We change our minds when confronted with new evidence; they Communist regimes change their minds when confronted with a new dictator." Ambrose has the gift of making history come alive. "If I told the story right, I could make them want to know." One reads his profiles and feels present as momentous issues are considered and decisions made. His descriptions of battles and maneuvers allow the reader to be a participant. Stephen E. Ambrose was Director Emeritus of the Eisenhower Center, Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans, and president of the National D- Day Museum. He was the author of many books, most recently The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisana Purchase to Today . His compilation of 1,400 oral histories from American veterans and authorship of over 20 books established him as one of the foremost historians of the Second World War in Europe. He died October 13, 2002, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
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Ambrose, Stephen E. Americans At War Berkley Books 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082964. ISBN #0425165108 / 9780425165102. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ambrose, Stephen E. Americans At War Berkley Books 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082964. ISBN #0425165108 / 9780425165102. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Stephen E. Ambrose, one of the foremost historians of the European theater of World War II, shares his vast knowledge of that conflict as well as the Civil War, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War in this compelling narrative about the American way of war. From Vicksburg to My Lai, Ambrose recounts the history of these wars with extensive coverage of the battlefields and believable portrayals of those involved, creating the perspective that the country's conflicts both reflect and shape American democratic society. "Compelling." The Indianapolis Star "Ambrose has the great gift of making history come alive." The Anniston Star "Fascinating...insightful." The Houston Chronicle
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Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 2001 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064896. ISBN #0743203178 / 9780743203173. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 2001 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064896. ISBN #0743203178 / 9780743203173. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks. The U.S. government pitted two companies -- the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads -- against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomotives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West or lugged across the country to the Plains. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes vibrantly to life.
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Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 Simon & Schuster 2000 hardcover. Previous owner inscription present. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1134118. ISBN #0684846098 / 9780684846095. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 Simon & Schuster 2000 hardcover. Previous owner inscription present. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1134118. ISBN #0684846098 / 9780684846095. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Union had won the Civil War; slavery was abolished. Lincoln, an early champion of railroads, would not live to see the next great achievment. It took brains, muscle, and sweat in quantities and scope never before ventured and required engineers and surveyors willing to lose their lives in the wilderness; men who had commanded and obeyed in war; workers from China, Ireland, and the defeated South; and capitalists betting their money for possible profit. The government pitted the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomotives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the east through Panama, around South America, or lugged across the country. The railroad was the last great building project to be done by hand: excavating dirt, cutting through ridges, filling gorges, blasting tunnels. Nothing like this great railroad had been seen in the world when the last spike, a golden one, was driven in at Promontory Peak, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific joined tracks. Ambrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the nation one.
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Ambrose, Stephen E. Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy 1938-1970 mass market paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1000177. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ambrose, Stephen E. To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian Simon & Schuster 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1016884. ISBN #0743202759 / 9780743202756. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ambrose, Stephen E. To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian Simon & Schuster 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1016884. ISBN #0743202759 / 9780743202756. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In To America, Stephen Ambrose, one of America's most influential historians, reflects on his long career as and explains what an historian's job is all about. When Stephen Ambrose became intersted in American history at age 18, there was much that America had done that made him proud, but there were some things he condemned as well, for instance slavery, the treatment of Native Americans, racist Southern politicians, the Robber Barons of the transcontinental railroad, the use of the atomic bomb. All through his undergraduate and graduate years from 1953-1960, Ambrose learned such ideas from his professors and believed and then taught them himself when he became a teacher of history in 1960. But after reasearching and writing about the Civil War in graduate school, Eisenhower in the 60s, Crazy Horse and Custer, Lewis and Clark, Nixon, the transcontinental railroad, and World War II over the next three decades, Ambrose's views on American history changed. In his new book the renowned historian celebrates America's spirit and confronts its failures and struggles. As always in his much acclaimed work, Ambrose brings alive the men and women, famous and not, who have peopled history and made the United States the superpower it is now.
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American Heritage Publishing American Heritage Book Of The Revolution hardcover. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1120935. (filed under: American History ) *
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Anderson, Fred; Cayton, Andrew The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 Viking Adult 2004 hardcover. 2005 edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or900778. ISBN #0670033707 / 9780670033706. (filed under: American History ) *
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Anderson, Fred; Cayton, Andrew The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 Viking Adult 2004 hardcover. 2005 edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or900778. ISBN #0670033707 / 9780670033706. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Americans often think of their nation s history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood both as necessary to defend those values and as exceptions to the rule of peaceful progress. In The Dominion of War , historians Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton boldly reinterpret the development of the United States, arguing instead that war has played a leading role in shaping North America from the sixteenth century to the present. Anderson and Cayton bring their sweeping narrative to life by structuring it around the lives of eight men Samuel de Champlain, William Penn, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur, and Colin Powell. This approach enables them to describe great events in concrete terms and to illuminate critical connections between often-forgotten imperial conflicts, such as the Seven Years War and the Mexican- American War, and better-known events such as the War of Independence and the Civil War. The result is a provocative, highly readable account of the ways in which republic and empire have coexisted in American history as two faces of the same coin. The Dominion of War recasts familiar triumphs as tragedies, proposes an unconventional set of turning points, and depicts imperialism and republicanism as inseparable influences in a pattern of development in which war and freedom have long been intertwined. It offers a new perspective on America s attempts to define its role in the world at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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Andrlik, Todd Reporting The Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129736. ISBN #1402282559 / 9781402282553. (filed under: American History ) *
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Andrlik, Todd Reporting The Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129736. ISBN #1402282559 / 9781402282553. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary " This is 'you are there' history at its best... Reporting the Revolutionary War lets us see and feel how events unfolded for the people who lived them." American History For the colonists of the new world, the years of the American Revolution were a time of upheaval and rebellion. History boils it down to a few key events and has embodied it with a handful of legendary personalities. But the reality of the time was that everyday people witnessed thousands of little moments blaze into an epic conflict-for more than twenty years. Now, for the first time, experience the sparks of revolution the way the colonists did in their very own town newspapers and broadsheets. Reporting the Revolutionary War is a stunning collection of primary sources, sprinkled with modern analysis from 37 historians. Featuring Patriot and Loyalist eyewitness accounts from newspapers printed on both sides of the Atlantic, readers will experience the revolution as it happened with the same immediacy and uncertainty of the colonists. The American newspapers of the eighteenth century fanned the flames of rebellion, igniting the ideas of patriotism and liberty among average citizens who had never before been so strongly united. Within the papers, you'll also read the private correspondence and battlefield letters of the rebels and patriots who grabbed the attention of each and every colonist and pushed them to fight for freedom and change. From one of America's leading Revolutionary War newspaper archivists, Todd Andrlik, and guided by scores of historians and experts, Reporting the Revolutionary War brings you into the homes of Americans and lets you see through their eyes the tinderbox of war as it explodes. "The story of the battle for independence unlike any version that has been told." Military Review
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Angle, Paul M. Crossroads: 1913 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or1017142. (filed under: American History ) *
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Antin, Mary The Promised Land Penguin Classics 1997 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or989320. ISBN #0140189858 / 9780140189858. (filed under: American History ) *
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Antin, Mary The Promised Land Penguin Classics 1997 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or989320. ISBN #0140189858 / 9780140189858. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Interweaving introspection with political commentaries, biography with history, The Promised Land 1912 brings to life the transformation of an East European Jewish immigrant into an American citizen. Mary Antin recounts "the process of uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimitization, and development that took place in my own soul," and reveals the impact of a new culture and new standards of behavior on her family. A feeling of divisions between Russia and America, Jews and Gentiles, Yiddish and English ever-present in her narrative, is balanced by insights, amusing and serious, into ways to overcome them. In telling the story of one person, The Promised Land illuminates the lives of hundreds of thousands. This Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition includes eighteen black-and-white photographs from the book's first edition and reprints for the first time Antin's essay "How I wrote The Promised Land ."
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Applegate, Debby Most Famous Man in America: The Biography Of Henry Ward Beecher 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1135047. ISBN #0385513976 / 9780385513975. (filed under: American History ) *
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Applegate, Debby Most Famous Man in America: The Biography Of Henry Ward Beecher 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1135047. ISBN #0385513976 / 9780385513975. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century s bestselling book Uncle Tom s Cabin . But when pushed into the ministry, the charismatic Beecher found international fame by shedding his father s Old Testament style fire-and-brimstone theology and instead preaching a New Testament based gospel of unconditional love and healing, becoming one of the founding fathers of modern American Christianity. By the 1850s, his spectacular sermons at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights had made him New York s number one tourist attraction, so wildly popular that the ferries from Manhattan to Brooklyn were dubbed Beecher Boats. Beecher inserted himself into nearly every important drama of the era among them the antislavery and women s suffrage movements, the rise of the entertainment industry and tabloid press, and controversies ranging from Darwinian evolution to presidential politics. He was notorious for his irreverent humor and melodramatic gestures, such as auctioning slaves to freedom in his pulpit and shipping rifles nicknamed Beecher s Bibles to the antislavery resistance fighters in Kansas. Thinkers such as Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Twain befriended and sometimes parodied him. And then it all fell apart. In 1872 Beecher was accused by feminist firebrand Victoria Woodhull of adultery with one of his most pious parishioners. Suddenly the Gospel of Love seemed to rationalize a life of lust. The cuckolded husband brought charges of criminal conversation in a salacious trial that became the most widely covered event of the century, garnering more newspaper headlines than the entire Civil War. Beecher survived, but his reputation and his causes from women s rights to progressive evangelicalism suffered devastating setbacks that echo to this day. Featuring the page-turning suspense of a novel and dramatic new historical evidence, Debby Applegate has written the definitive biography of this captivating, mercurial, and sometimes infuriating figure. In our own time, when religion and politics are again colliding and adultery in high places still commands headlines, Beecher s story sheds new light on the culture and conflicts of contemporary America.
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