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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
$18.00 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“In her form-shattering and myth-crushing book….Coe examines myths with mirth, and writes history with humor… You Never
AN NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR- Author: Coe, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0735224110
- Language: English
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A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0062370863
- Language: English
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Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People–And the Fight to Resist It
$30.00 Read moreA riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power—and the movement to stop them.
The mob that stormed the Capitol on Janu- Author: Berman, Ari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 037460021X
- Language: English
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
$26.00 Read more“Perlstein…aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling.” —Los Angeles Times
“Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of mo- Author: Perlstein, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 074324303X
- Language: English
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
$24.99 Add to cartAcclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed… [more below]
- Author: Perlstein, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1568584121
- Language: English
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God and Ronald Reagan: A Spiritual Life
$18.99 Add to cartRonald Reagan is hailed today for a presidency that restored optimism to America, engendered years of economic prosperity, and helped bring about the fall of the Soviet Union. Yet until now little att
- Author: Kengor, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 419
- Publish Date: January 18 2005
- ISBN10: 006057142X
- Language: English
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Democracy in America and Two Essays on America
$16.00 Add to cartA contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil serv- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0140447601
- Language: English
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American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
$32.50 Add to cartNew attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slaver
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0393882209
- Language: English
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My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
$18.99 Add to cartI think Eleanor Roosevelt has so gripped the imagination of this moment because we need her and her vision so completely. . . . She’s perfect for us as we enter the twenty-first century. Eleanor Roose… [more below]
- Author: Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 8, 2001
- ISBN10: 0306810107
- Language: English
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A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism
$39.95 Add to cartHow the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the right
When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poi- Series: Politics and Society in Modern America #155
- Author: Lichtenstein, Nelson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245509
- Language: English
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Up from Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right After a Generation of Decay
$32.99 Add to cartThe Conservative Establishment’s consensus of the past two generations has almost totally broken down. Conservatism was unable to stop or even slow the Left’s rolling revolutions in nearly every secto
- Author: Milikh, Arthur
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 1641772905
- Language: English
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The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
$21.00 Add to cartIn a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: “Political analysts have been poring over exit polls and precinct-level votes to gauge the meaning of last November’s electi… [more below]
- Author: Lasch, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 21 2011
- ISBN10: 0393313719
- Language: English
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Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States
$20.99 Add to cart- Author: Hart, Bradley W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 2, 2018
- ISBN10: 1250871883
- Language: English
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The Biden Malaise: How America Bounces Back from Joe Biden’s Dismal Repeat of the Jimmy Carter Years
$30.00 Read more“In the style of a dogged prosecutor, Strassel builds a devastating case against Joe Biden’s record…THE BIDEN MALAISE is must-read ahead of 2024, as conservative voters prepare to make consequential
- Author: Strassel, Kimberley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1538756218
- Language: English
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Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing
$27.99 Add to cart“One of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders” (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head o
- Author: Jealous, Benjamin Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0062961748
- Language: English
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Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
$28.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?
Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage
- Author: Brooks, Arthur C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 12, 2019
- ISBN10: 0062883755
- Language: English
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Democracy in America
$8.95 Add to cartFrench nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic treatise on the American way of life.
Over 175 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, an astute political scientist, came to the United States to evaluate th- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531604
- Language: English
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Getting Our Voices Heard: How Can Americans Change Our Society?
$10.99 Read moreInspires young learners to explore America’s government institutions through the nation’s history and the experience of modern Americans
Part of an inspiring series of books that will support students- Series: My American Story
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0744077710
- Language: English
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America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
$28.99 Add to cartWhy do Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and much of the far Right so explicitly admire the murderous and incompetent Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? Why is Ron DeSantis drawing from Victor Orbç–£’s illi… [more below]
- Author: Heilbrunn, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 1324094664
- Language: English
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The Peacemaker: Nixon: The Man, President, and My Friend
$27.99 Add to cart“Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.” – Matthew 5:9
“I don’t think any president has been more wrongly persecuted than Nixon, ever. I just think he was a saint.” –
- Author: Stein, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1630062014
- Language: English
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