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Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics
by Howard Zinn
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Historian, activist, and bestselling author Howard Zinn has been interviewed by David Barsamian for public radio numerous times over the past decade. Original Zinn is a collection of their conversations, showcasing the acclaimed author of A People's... ( read more)
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What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
by Scott McClellan
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Scott McClellan was one of a few Bush loyalists from Texas who became part of his inner circle of trusted advisers, and remained so during one of the most challenging and contentious periods of recent history. Drawn to Bush by his commitment to... ( read more)
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
Powells.com Staff Pick
An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding
the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time
and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this
tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... ( read more)
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
by James W Loewen
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Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve... ( read more)
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearn Goodwin
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Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become... ( read more)
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic
by Joseph J Ellis
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Acclaimed historian Joseph J. Ellis brings his unparalleled talents to this riveting account of the early years of the Republic. The last quarter of the eighteenth century remains the most politically creative era in American history, when a dedicated... ( read more)
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Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
by Fred Kaplan
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For Abraham Lincoln, whether he was composing love letters, speeches, or legal arguments, words mattered. In Lincoln, acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan explores the life of America's sixteenth president through his use of language as a vehicle both to... ( read more)
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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
by Jimmy Carter
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Following his #1 New York Times bestseller Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine.
President... ( read more)
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John Adams
by David McCullough
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David McCullough is our most dependable presidential biographer. Each
of his efforts has been a resounding success, combining popular appeal
with literary accolades. Mornings on Horseback, about Teddy Roosevelt,
won the National Book Award, his... ( read more)
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Truman
by David McCullough
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The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this... ( read more)
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John Adams
by David Mccullough
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In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose... ( read more)
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1776
by David McCullough
Powells.com Staff Pick
Staying in the territory of his acclaimed epic biography John Adams, David McCullough
follows George Washington and the Continental Army through the tumultuous first year of war.
An exceptional narrative historian, McCullough vividly examines the... ( read more)
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
by Joseph J Ellis
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In a landmark work of history, the National Book Award-winning author of "American Sphinx" explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed men--Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison--set the course for our nation. A... ( read more)
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The Invention of Air: A Study of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America
by Steven Johnson
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Steven Johnson, author of the impressive book The Ghost Map, returns with The Invention of Air, the story of Englishman Joseph Priestley — scientist, minister, and advocate of the American Revolution. Johnson's elegant and engaging narrative... ( read more)
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The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008
by Bob Woodward
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As violence in Iraq reaches unnerving levels in 2006, a second front in the war rages at the highest levels of the Bush administration. In his fourth book on President George W. Bush, Bob Woodward takes readers deep inside the tensions, secret debates... ( read more)
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Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in... ( read more)
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Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
by Jimmy Carter
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President Jimmy Carter offers a passionate defense of separation of church and state. He warns that fundamentalists are deliberately blurring the lines between politics and religion. As a believing Christian, Carter takes on issues that are under fierce... ( read more)
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Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs
by Deborah Willis
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Through 150 striking color photographs, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs charts the road to Barack Obama's nomination as the first African American to lead the presidential ticket of a major party. Announcing his campaign in Springfield... ( read more)
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Blowback the Costs & Consequences of Ame
by Chalmers Johnson
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Now available in paperback, Chalmers Johnson's take-no-prisoners account of the consequences of American global policies, hailed as "brilliant and iconoclastic" (Los Angeles Times)
The term "blowback," invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended... ( read more)
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
by David McCullough
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Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as "a masterpiece" (John A. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography... ( read more)
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