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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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Alexander, Bevin How America Got It Right: The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy Crown Forum 2005 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1022286. ISBN #1400052882 / 9781400052882. (filed under: American History ) *
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Alexander, Bevin How America Got It Right: The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy Crown Forum 2005 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1022286. ISBN #1400052882 / 9781400052882. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary At last, a historian tells the truth about America s role in the world refuting the lies of anti-American propagandists. Left-wing critics both at home and abroad relish blasting our country for being the world s sole superpower, or even an imperialist power. But as acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander shows in How America Got It Right , these criticisms are completely off the mark. Alexander reveals how the United States has done and continues to do exactly the right thing in military and foreign affairs. As the world s dominant political force and military power, he says, we are the only nation that will actually go into the world and strike down evil. And we must not shirk that responsibility especially because we cannot rely on our so-called allies to defend our freedoms. Alexander tells the dramatic and sometimes surprising story of how, from the American Revolution to the War on Terror, America s core principles and ideals have shaped our march to economic, military, and political supremacy. How America Got It Right reveals: How in the War on Terror we re simply repeating the process of World War II going wherever we have to in the world to destroy those who threaten our safety How unpatriotic critics of American foreign policy fail to understand the clear threats we now grapple with but how our leaders get it How America boldly and correctly asserted this nation s unique status to the world long before we had the military strength to back up our daring proclamations How, at almost every turn, our leaders demonstrated remarkable foresight that enabled America to become the world s dominant power How a policy of securing other people s freedom is in fact grounded in American tradition, not a dangerous departure from precedent As Americans debate what our nation s role in world affairs should be, Alexander shows how far from overreaching or bumbling into situations in which we shouldn t be involved the United States has properly embraced its role as world leader. Covering more than two centuries of history, How America Got It Right refutes those critics who suggest that America has somehow gone off course or overextended itself. Indeed, according to Alexander, our government has got it right. America s critics have got it wrong, because what they are hoping for peace without a price will never come to pass. We saw early in our colonial history that because of our isolation from Europe, and because of the immense wealth and bounty of our land we had the opportunity to build the greatest, freest, and most prosperous nation ever to arise on earth. We spent the first century and a quarter of our independent existence in creating this great nation. But to protect this treasure, we found that we needed to establish the world s paramount military structure and become the world s preeminent political power. This book is the story of America s march to economic, military, and political supremacy, and the ideals that have guided us along the way. From How America Got It Right
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Allen, Frederick Lewis Only Yesterday: An Informal History Of The Nineteen-Twenties hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1036446. (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 ) *
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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. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or883717. 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. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or883717. 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. 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; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or973500. 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; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or973500. 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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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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Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening Of The American West paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1089250. ISBN #0684826976 / 9780684826974. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening Of The American West paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1089250. ISBN #0684826976 / 9780684826974. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author od D-Day, presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through the heart-stopping moments of the actual trip, to Lewis's lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. Along the way, Ambrose shows us the American West as Lewis saw it -- wild, awsome, and pristinely beautiful. Undaunted Courage is a stunningly told action tale that will delight readers for generations.
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American Quarterly American Quarterly Volume 59, Number 3: Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States Johns Hopkins University Press 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1036868. ISBN #0801888689 / 9780801888687. (filed under: American History ) *
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American Quarterly American Quarterly Volume 59, Number 3: Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States Johns Hopkins University Press 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1036868. ISBN #0801888689 / 9780801888687. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This collection of essays from a special issue of American Quarterly explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways that religion matters in contemporary public life. Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States offers a groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary conversation between scholars in American studies and religious studies. The contributors explore numerous modes through which religious faith has mobilized political action. They utilize a variety of definitions of politics, ranging from lobbying by religious leaders to the political impact of popular culture. Their work includes the political activities of a very diverse group of religious believers: Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and others. In addition, the book explores the meanings of religion for people who might contest the term those who are spiritual but not religious, for example, as well as activists who engage symbols of faith and community but who may not necessarily consider themselves members of a specific religion. Several essays also examine the meanings of secular identity, humanist politics, and the complex evocations of civil religion in American life. No other book on religion and politics includes anything like the diversity of religions, ethnicities, and topics that this one does from Mormon political mobilization to attempts at Americanizing Muslims in the post-9 11 United States, from C sar Ch vez to James Dobson, from interreligious cooperation and conflict over Darfur to the global politics surrounding the category of Hindus and South Asians in the United States.
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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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Anderson, Virginia DeJohn Creatures Of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America Oxford University Press 2004 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or864199. ISBN #0195158601 / 9780195158601. (filed under: American History ) *
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Anderson, Virginia DeJohn Creatures Of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America Oxford University Press 2004 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or864199. ISBN #0195158601 / 9780195158601. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played a vitally important role in the settling of the New World. Livestock, Anderson writes, were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west. By bringing livestock across the Atlantic, colonists believed that they provided the means to realize America's potential, a goal that Indians, who lacked domestic animals, had failed to accomplish. Settlers believed that Indians who learned to keep livestock would also advance along the path toward civility and Christian faith. But colonists failed to anticipate that the animals they hoped would convert Indians instead generated friction between the two people as Indians encountered free-ranging livestock at almost every turn, often trespassing in their cornfields. Moreover, concerned about feeding their growing populations and committed to a style of husbandry that required far more space than they had expected, colonists could see no alternative but to appropriate Indian land. This created tensions that reached the boiling point with King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion. And it established a pattern that would repeat time and again over the next two centuries. A stunning account that presents our history in a truly new light, Creatures of Empire restores a vital element of our past, illuminating one of the great forces of colonization and the expansion westward.
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