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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
$40.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Rich… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0199735816
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s American Dream: Clashing Political Perspectives
$39.95 Add to cartDespite the voluminous literature on the central figure in American history, no other book in the field of political science compares to Lincoln’s American Dream. It addresses comprehensively the over… [more below]
- Author: Deutsch, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574885898
- Language: English
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Politics for Dummies
$25.99 Add to cartGet up to speed on the U.S. political system
Confused by caucuses, primaries, and pollsters? Puzzled by the various parties and special interest groups? Politics For Dummies has everything you need to
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Delaney, Ann M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1119652952
- Language: English
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A Politician Thinking: The Creative Mind of James Madison
$29.95 Add to cartJames Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787-1788 to secure ratifi
- Series: Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture #14
- Author: Rakove, Jack N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0806157372
- Language: English
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John Adams: The American Presidents Series: The 2nd President, 1797-1801
$34.00 Add to cartA revealing look at the true beginning of American politics
Until recently rescued by David McCullough, John Adams has always been overshadowed by Washington and Jefferson. Volatile, impulsive, irrita- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Diggins, John Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0805069372
- Language: English
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Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971
$26.95 Add to cartIn this riveting collection, available for the first time in paperback, we follow Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, two giants of the post-World War II period who were primarily responsible for the Ma
- Author: Truman, Harry S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803245262
- Language: English
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American Politics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAmerican politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all this roiling partisan argument and confusing claims … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Valelly, Richard M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0195373855
- Language: English
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La Polarización PolÃtica En Estados Unidos / Constitutional Polarization: A Crit Ical Review of the Us Political System: OrÃgenes Y Actualidad de Un C
$19.95 Read moreUna lecci?n magistral sobre las bases de la pol?tica norteamericana.
El sistema institucional de Estados Unidos, uno de los m?s admirados del mundo, lleva tiempo dando se?ales de mal funcionamiento. L… [more below]- Author: Colomer, Josep M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 8419399426
- Language: Spanish
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The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets
$22.00 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE – Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really for? And whom does it benefit?
“A brillian- Author: Connelly, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1101973676
- Language: English
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Franklin Pierce: The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857
$34.00 Add to cartThe genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation’s simmering battle over slavery
Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Holt, Michael F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0805087192
- Language: English
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William Howard Taft
$35.00 Add to cartThe only man to serve as president and chief justice, who approached every decision in constitutional terms, defending the Founders’ vision against new populist threats to American democracy
William H- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Rosen, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0805069542
- Language: English
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Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
$21.99 Add to cartIn this action-packed history, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger unfolds the epic story of Patrick Henry, who roused Americans to fight government tyranny — both British and American. Remembere… [more below]
- Author: Unger, Harlow Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0306820463
- Language: English
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Blind Ambition: The White House Years
$29.00 Add to cartA six-month New York Times bestseller: “Not only the best Watergate book, but a very good book indeed” (The Sunday Times).
As White House counsel to Richard Nixon, a young John W. Dean was one of the- Author: Dean, John W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: December 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1504041011
- Language: English
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Democracy or Republic?: The People and the Constitution
$25.00 Add to cartIn recent years, the Constitution has become a source of political controversy between conservatives and progressives. While the right defends our founding document, the left argues that it’s an antiq
- Author: Cost, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0844750514
- Language: English
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Saboteurs: From Shocking Wikileaks Revelations about Satanism in the US Capitol to the Connection Between Witchcraft, the Babalon
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Horn, Thomas R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0999189425
- Language: English
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A Political Education: A Washington Memoir
$35.00 Add to cartThis insider’s view of Washington in the 1950s and 1960s, of the tumultuous presidency of Lyndon Johnson, and of the conflicts and factions of the president’s staff has become a political classic sinc
- Author: McPherson, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 515
- Publish Date: March 01, 1995
- ISBN10: 0292751818
- Language: English
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Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union
$30.00 Read moreFrom journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a “powerful revisionist account”of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner).
The n- Author: Kreitner, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 18, 2020
- ISBN10: 0316510602
- Language: English
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Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-Of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
$18.00 Add to cartGlenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, revisits Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.
In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with convicti- Author: Beck, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 16 2009
- ISBN10: 1439168571
- Language: English
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
$20.00 Add to cartIn this first collection of interviews since the
Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating,
bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy- Series: American Empire Project
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 05 2005
- ISBN10: 080507967X
- Language: English
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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
$29.95 Read moreAcclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening… [more below]
- Author: Wilentz, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: September 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393329216
- Language: English
