Historical
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Lincoln
$24.00 Add to cartA masterful work by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from… [more below]
- Author: Donald, David Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: November 05 1996
- ISBN10: 068482535X
- Language: English
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Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker’s Wife, and Mussolini’s Daughter Outwitted the Nazis
$18.99 Add to cartIn a tale as twisted as any spy thriller, discover how three women delivered critical evidence of Axis war crimes to Allied forces during World War II: “A tantalizingly novelistic history lesson” (Kir… [more below]
- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1538751275
- Language: English
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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
$27.00 Add to cartA magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world
The product of a decade of intrepid research, Stalin is a landmark achievement. Stephen Kotkin offers a biogr- Author: Kotkin, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 13, 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127861
- Language: English
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Billy the Kid-Pa
$19.95 Add to cart“It’s certain to remain the authoritative biography that at last makes the Kid’s life whole and understandable.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Robert M. Utley does what countless books, movies, television s
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: August 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0803295588
- Language: English
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Caesar: Life of a Colossus
$23.95 Read moreNamed 2006 Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com
“An authoritative and exciting portrait not only of Caesar but of the complex society in which he lived.”–Steven Coates, New York Times Book Review “The- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0300126891
- Language: English
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Wild Cow Tales
$21.95 Add to cartIn thirteen stories full of rope burns and brush scratches, the author of the classic Horse Tradin’ tells of the days when he made a specialty of catching wild cows. Ben K. Green calls himself a “stov… [more below]
- Author: Green, Ben K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803270887
- Language: English
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Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait
$21.95 Add to cartJohn H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner reveals the real
- Author: Tanner, Karen Holliday
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0806133201
- Language: English
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Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls’ Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
$20.00 Add to cart“A stunning tale of a little-known figure in history. Robert Smalls’ astounding heroism during the Civil War helped convince Lincoln and the country that African Americans were extraordinarily capable
- Author: Lineberry, Cate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1250183898
- Language: English
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Bolivar: American Liberator
$23.00 Add to cartA brilliant biography that “reads like a wonderful novel but is researched like a masterwork of history” (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), this is the epic story of the famous South American ge… [more below]
- Author: Arana, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1439110204
- Language: English
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The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
$47.00 Add to cartAn intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quot… [more below]
- Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo
- Author: Cappon, Lester J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: September 30 1988
- ISBN10: 0807842303
- Language: English
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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
$18.99 Add to cartAmazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce’s extraordinary role as a human right
- Author: Metaxas, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0061173886
- Language: English
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Greek Lives
$13.95 Add to cart“I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror…The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as m… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199540055
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery
$6.95 Add to cartThe dramatic autobiographical account of Booker T. Washington’s unique American experience–a struggle against social and ideological bias that he began as a slave and never stopped.
“Washington’s sto- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531477
- Language: English
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Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
$37.99 Add to cartDuring the past year Paul McCartney has been in the public’s eye more than at any time since the peak of Beatlemania over thirty years ago. His fans have been treated to the best-selling Flaming Pie a
- Author: Miles, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0805052496
- Language: English
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Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House
$22.95 Add to cartInside the “Most Haunted” House in New Orleans
The legend of Madame Delphine Lalaurie, a wealthy society matron and accused slave torturer, has haunted New Orleans for nearly two hundred years. Her ma
- Author: Long, Carolyn Morrow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0813061830
- Language: English
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Journey Into the Whirlwind
$19.99 Add to cartJourney into the Whirlwind is Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg’s courageous memoir of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through the Soviet Union’s prisons and labor camps.
By the late 1930s, Eugenia Semyo… [more below]
- Series: Helen and Kurt Wolff Books
- Author: Ginzburg, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027518
- Language: English
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Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
$24.00 Read moreThe dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Rom… [more below]
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 0300216661
- Language: English
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
$22.00 Add to cartThe definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest.
On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0375708154
- Language: English
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “An altogether absorbing popular biography . . . The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father who all but ignored … [more below]
- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: April 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0385313489
- Language: English
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 1: The Dryden Translation
$20.00 Add to cartPlutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by fa… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756760
- Language: English
