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A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 2: The Beginning of the Republic, 1775-1825, Clarence B. Carson

A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 2: The Beginning of the Republic, 1775-1825

By Clarence B. Carson

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This second volume covers the Declaration of Independence through the fruits of independence. Carson combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages for a clearer understanding of the people and... read more

A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 5: The Welfare State, 1929-1985, Clarence B. Carson

A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 5: The Welfare State, 1929-1985

By Clarence B. Carson

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The fifth volume covers the Great Depression through the mid-eighties. Carson elucidates the causes of the stock market crash and the years of economic depression which followed. Further discussions... read more

A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 6: America in Gridlock, 1985-1995, Clarence B. Carson

A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 6: America in Gridlock, 1985-1995

By Clarence B. Carson

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Carson's newest volume in his set brings U.S. history abreast with recent developments in government and culture. Among the topics he examines are materialism and statism, the welfare state, ... read more

A Child of Fortune, Jeffrey St. John

A Child of Fortune

By Jeffrey St. John

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In this exciting audio production, prize-winning journalist and historian Jeffrey St. John simulates day-by-day reportage to make you a first-hand witness to the 1787-1788 political battle to ratify... read more

A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent, Robert W. Merry

A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent

By Robert W. Merry

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Robert W. Merry, the president and publisher of Congressional Quarterly, Inc., examines how, in a one-term presidency, James K. Polk completed the story of America's Manifest Destiny by expanding its... read more

A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II, Richard Snow

A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II

By Richard Snow

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Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, just one really scared him'what he called the "measureless peril" of the German U-boat campaign. In that... read more

A Nation Rising, Kenneth C. Davis

A Nation Rising

By Kenneth C. Davis

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In the dramatic period from 1800 through 1850, the United States emerged from its inauspicious beginning as a tiny newborn nation, to a near-empire that spanned the continent. It was a time in which... read more

A Night to Remember, Walter Lord

A Night to Remember

By Walter Lord

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The "unsinkable" Titanic was four city blocks long, with a French "sidewalk café," private promenade decks, and the latest, most ingenious safety devices ... but only twenty lifeboats for the 2,207... read more

A Safeway in Arizona, Tom Zoellner

A Safeway in Arizona

By Tom Zoellner

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A riveting account of the state of Arizona, seen through the lens of the Tucson shootings. On January 8, 2011, twenty-two-year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a Tucson meet and greet held... read more

A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, Martin J. Sherwin

A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies

By Martin J. Sherwin

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Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of Hiroshima and the origins of the arms race, from the development of the American... read more