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Willis Richardson, Forgotten Pioneer of African-American Drama (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets) Best Price: $105.95 During the 1920s and 1930s, Willis Richardson (1889-1977) was highly respected as a leading...	Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) Best Price: $29.95 There has been recent controversy in the African American community about youth and their lack...	People of the Underground Railroad: A Biographical Dictionary Best Price: $75.00 The Underground Railroad was perhaps the best example in U.S. history of blacks and whites...	Grant Takes Command: 1863 - 1865 Best Price: $22.62 "Grant Takes Command" is the second of two volumes by Bruce Catton on Grant's...	Why Sinatra Matters Best Price: $4.00 It is enough to say "Sinatra," any literate American knows that means only Frank...



Sage of Monticello: Volume VI (Jefferson & His Time) Best Price: $1.99 When I recently finally finished the 6th and final volume of this set, I realized that I knew...	Loaded: A Misadventure on the Marijuana Trail Best Price: $15.00 Surely no review is going to do justice to this fairly insane, eminently thriulling book. Sabbag...	Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America (Library of American Biography Series) Best Price: $23.11 In his introduction, Allan Winkler states that this was a book that he had wanted to write for...	James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse, 3rd Edition (Library of American Biography Series) Best Price: $10.00 Between the end of Andrew Jackson's presidency in 1837 and the beginning of Abraham...	Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate Best Price: $16.75 Most every student of the Civil War has heard of Judah P. Benjamin but very few people know...



On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir Best Price: $8.57 Henry Kaufman is one of the most important figures in the development of world credit markets...	Henry James: A Life in Letters (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $57.87 Unlike the previous reviewer here, I am not a James scholar. With this volume a James layman can...	Twenty Years at Hull House (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) Best Price: $5.50 I suppose all the children who were born about the time of the Civil War have recollections...	Woodrow Wilson: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) Best Price: $2.00 A portrait of a century's greatest political mastermind Our tw ent y-eighth president...	Dr. Spock: An American Life Best Price: $3.19 "Dr. Spock: An American Life" is a powerful story. In fact, once I got...

Mrs. Paine's Garage: And the Murder of John F. Kennedy Best Price: $3.95 It's interesting when reading interviews with intimate witnesses of the assassination of...	Un-American Activities: The Trials of William Remington Best Price: $19.95 In 1948, William W. Remington was one of the bright young men in the Truman administration. He...	The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family Best Price: $7.09 This book is a fascinating look at a famous and influential family in a time and place I happen...	Richard M. Nixon: An American Enigma (Library of American Biography Series) Best Price: $21.98 In the newest addition to the Library of American Biography Series , noted biographer and...	Lauren Bacall: By Myself Best Price: $44.99 She was the husky-voiced rising star, and he was the grizzled veteran. While "Laurel...

Faith of My Fathers (Random House Large Print) Best Price: $8.98 Ok, I can't really say what I thought of the book, as I bought it as a gift for my dad. I...	John Glenn: A Memoir (Random House Large Print) Best Price: $6.98 John Glenn became the first American in orbit when he circled the Earth three times aboard...	I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up Best Price: $2.40 Jesse "the body, the mouth, the mind, the Gov." Ventura. When Jesse Ventura...	The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity Best Price: $3.94 I will get straight to the point and say that I hated this book. Did the author simply want to...	The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House Best Price: $7.70 Republicans blamed Bill Clinton for 9/11, saying he cut the military and weakened the...

John D. Rockefeller (American Dream Series) Coffey examines John's life from his childhood days watching his father show up...	Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York Best Price: $21.73 Myer Myers, a Jewish silversmith in colonial America, created outstanding works for leading...	The Beecher Sisters Best Price: $6.77 The Beecher sisters - Catharine, Harriet and Isabella - were three of the most prominent women...	General John Buford: A Military Biography Best Price: $3.54 In General John Buford, Edward Longacre tries to fill out the life of a Civil War general who...	Kerouac: A Biography Best Price: $8.48 Although Kerouac was quite an interesting character, Charters gives little justice to this...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Portrait of Her Private Years Best Price: $18.99 I would recommend this book to anyone but especially to women. The story of Jacqueline Kennedy...	Abraham Lincoln the Orator: Penetrating the Lincoln Legend (Great American Orators) Best Price: $69.40 Although much has been written about Abraham Lincoln, there has been little rhetorical analysis...	The Specht Journal: A Military Journal of the Burgoyne Campaign (Contributions in Military Studies) Best Price: $88.89 The Specht Journal is one of the major diaries written by Braunschweig military personnel during...	The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius Best Price: $2.99 Famous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin-he would be neither without his accomplishments in...	Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country Best Price: $2.44 First off, let me say that I know the author and count the Novaks as friends of our family. ...

John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire	Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend Best Price: $31.18 By writing this book, Casey Tefertiller has done a great service to Western historians and to...	Einstein: A Life Best Price: $0.99 Any reader who thinks it might be profitable to spend some quality time with Albert Einstein -...	The White Tecumseh: A Biography of General William T. Sherman Best Price: $15.28 Overall, this biography of Sherman is closely researched, competent, and as revealing of the...	Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend Best Price: $10.97 This is a very detailed account of the life of Wyatt Earp and for that matter Tombstone. The...

John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire Best Price: $11.00 John Jacob Astor led the life most people do not even dare to dream about. He was a serial...	Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot Best Price: $18.75 Benjamin Banneker:Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot, by Charles A. Cerami has expanded...	Under the Blue Pennant: or Notes of a Naval Officer, 1863-1865 Best Price: $1.25 "Rare . . . gives us insights into how Union naval officers thought, how they lived . . ....	Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott (Women in American History) Best Price: $56.97 Lucretia Mott, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and many others...	The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: vol. 1: Preparing to Lead, 1860-81 Best Price: $64.88 Selected Papers of Jane Addams Volume 1, Preparing to lead 1860-81,edited by Mary Bryan, Barbara...

Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies) Best Price: $11.00 This is the biography of a ruling-class woman who became a major American philanthropist. The...	Irving Howe - Socialist, Critic, Jew (Jewish Literature and Culture) Best Price: $3.98 Edward Alexander is not going to win the hagiography (lives of the saints) award of the year but...	Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century Best Price: $39.95 I was quite impressed with the content and readability of Professor Rhodes' latest book. A...	November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg Best Price: $13.84 A few years ago I ran upon a book titled: "Gettysburg: A Meditation on War and...	Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906 Franz Boas was one of the founders of American anthropology. Born in Germany, he first studied...

American Byron: Homosexuality & The Fall Of Fitz-Greene Halleck Best Price: $32.50 This book, an interesting documentary of 18th and 19th homosexuality in America captured my...	The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 11: Volume 11: January 1, 1764 through December 31, 1764 (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Series) Best Price: $104.97 This is the first volume to come from a great scholarly undertaking, the assembly and editing of...	Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger Best Price: $25.95 Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger. By David M. Kennedy. 320 pp. New Haven...	Lincoln in American Memory Best Price: $15.95 This fascinating volume considers how Lincoln has been viewed from the time of his death to the...	Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution Best Price: $26.43 This is a book that most readers will thoroughly enjoy, especially as it purports to bring a new...

That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt Best Price: $7.38 Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still...	Benjamin Franklin (Lives & Legacies (Oxford)) Best Price: $2.43 Professor Gaustad has written another outstanding biography in the Lives and Legacies Series by...	Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War Best Price: $4.94 Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding...	The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Best Price: $8.30 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read...	The Story of Abraham Lincoln Best Price: $14.13 Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free...

Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich Best Price: $10.99 This book provides very good explanations of how the early American economy was financed. Would...	Pershing (Great Generals) Best Price: $7.67 I read this book as part of a research paper I did on the Spanish American War. This book is...	Benjamin Franklin and His Gods Against the religious backdrop of pre- and postcolonial America stands the towering figure --...	Edison: A Life of Invention Best Price: $23.99 The conventional story is so familiar and reassuring that it has come to read more like...	Period Piece (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) Best Price: $12.26 Four or five anecdotes save Gwen Raverat's "Period Piece" from being so sweet it...

My Bondage and My Freedom (African American) Best Price: $4.48 My Bondage and My Freedom, one of Douglass' several autobiographies, a very important book...	Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805 (Dover Books on Americana) Best Price: $4.47 What a unique and interesting concept: take a diary of a 15 year old boy and write a virtual...	Geronimo: My Life (Native American) Best Price: $5.52 It is truly a sad day in our history that we felt it necessary to capture and incarcerate ANY...	Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short and Others Best Price: $2.92 It's a fast read, and a worthwhile read. Some may find my rating generous, but while the...	Ezra Pound (Literary Lives) Best Price: $11.00 Let's face it, few of us are likely to hack our way through the thickets (some of them...

Frederick Billings: A Life Best Price: $8.50 Frederick Billings was the first lawyer to hang his shingle in San Francisco, the man who named...	Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography Best Price: $25.00 Jonathan Spaulding's biography of Ansel Adams (or AA as people referred to him) provides a...	Crowns of Thorns and Glory: Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Howell Davis: The Two First Ladies of the Civil War Best Price: $54.87 A crown of Thorns & Glory by the late Gerry Van Der Heuvel was a book I had wanted to read...	A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell Best Price: $24.54 Not one for biographies I nevertheless enjoyed this one tremendously. It is quite an intimate...	Grant: A Biography Best Price: $11.95 William S. McFeely's book Grant attempts to be an objective look at the life of one of the...

Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History Best Price: $7.81 The original publication of Fawn M. Brodie's //Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History// in...	Barney Fife and Other Characters I Have Known Best Price: $19.98 It was coincidental that two of my Christmas presents were books by the director (Alan Rafkin)...	Confessions of a part-time call girl Best Price: $112.99 This is a fun and interesting read! I loved it. She tells how she got into the...	Tumult in the Clouds Best Price: $95.56 Maj. James "Goody" Goodson was one of the top American aces of WWII and served with...	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Signet Classics) Best Price: $2.82 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent is a deeply touching narrative of a slave...

Up From Slavery Best Price: $1.86 Historically acknowledged as one of America's most powerful orators, Washington challenged...	The Long Goodbye Best Price: $3.52 This book is touching and wonderfully written. I read it slow to catch the author's...	Edison: A Life of Invention Best Price: $23.99 The conventional story is so familiar and reassuring that it has come to read more like...	Period Piece (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) Best Price: $12.26 Four or five anecdotes save Gwen Raverat's "Period Piece" from being so sweet it...	My Bondage and My Freedom (African American) Best Price: $4.48 My Bondage and My Freedom, one of Douglass' several autobiographies, a very important book...

Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805 (Dover Books on Americana) Best Price: $4.47 What a unique and interesting concept: take a diary of a 15 year old boy and write a virtual...	Geronimo: My Life (Native American) Best Price: $5.52 It is truly a sad day in our history that we felt it necessary to capture and incarcerate ANY...	Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short and Others Best Price: $2.92 It's a fast read, and a worthwhile read. Some may find my rating generous, but while the...	Ezra Pound (Literary Lives) Best Price: $11.00 Let's face it, few of us are likely to hack our way through the thickets (some of them...	Frederick Billings: A Life Best Price: $8.50 Frederick Billings was the first lawyer to hang his shingle in San Francisco, the man who named...

Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography Best Price: $25.00 Jonathan Spaulding's biography of Ansel Adams (or AA as people referred to him) provides a...	Crowns of Thorns and Glory: Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Howell Davis: The Two First Ladies of the Civil War Best Price: $54.87 A crown of Thorns & Glory by the late Gerry Van Der Heuvel was a book I had wanted to read...

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