Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and InheritanceList price: $23.00 9 new, used & collectible available from $44.96. Obama, the son of a white American mother and a black African father, writes an elegant and compelling biography that powerfully articulates America's racial battleground and tells of his search for his place in black America. 8 pages of photos.... |
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House List price: $30.00 38 new, used & collectible available from $14.50. Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson’s election in 1828 ushered in a n... |
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln List price: $21.00 29 new & used available from $12.55. This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.... |
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time List price: $15.00 156 new, used & collectible available from $6.99. The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoveris... |
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World List price: $29.95 21 new & used available from $17.19. Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it’s the sinews of war. To revolutionar... |
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression List price: $15.95 53 new & used available from $4.00. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped establish the steadfast character we recognize as American today. ... |
The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation List price: $26.95 16 new, used & collectible available from $16.12. “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. “It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.” In this bold and brilliantly argued book, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on ten of the biggest fallacies that millions of Americans believe about our country—in spite of incontrovertible ... |
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Large Print Press) List price: $14.95 37 new & used available from $8.34. A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us— whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed—he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The... |
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope List price: $16.00 18 new & used available from $9.46. Jonathan Alter's bestselling and critically acclaimed account of how FDR lifted the country from despair and paralysis and transformed the presidency for all time.... |
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief List price: $35.00 70 new, used & collectible available from $16.92. James McPherson, a bestselling historian of the Civil War, illuminates how Lincoln worked with—and often against— his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and create the role of commander in chief as we know it. Though Abraham Lincoln arrived at the White House with no previous military experience (apart from a couple of months spent soldiering in 1832), he quickly established himself a... |
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