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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Unabridged)
When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill on the American River, it completely transformed the territory of California....
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The Age of Lincoln (Unabridged)
Burton shows how the president's authentic Southerness empowered him to conduct a civil war that redefined freedom as a personal right to be expanded to all Americans....
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The Alamo (Unabridged)
A vivid picture of this dramatic battle and the period in which it was fought....
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The American Democrat (Unabridged)
Convinced that the American political system was endangered by complacency, demagoguery, party propaganda, and the tyranny of public opinion...
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The Best and the Brightest
Here is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain....
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, which until the early 1900s played such a dominant role in the city's economy, gastronomy, and ecology that the abundant bivalves....
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell (Unabridged)
Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster....
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The Book of Honor
In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall in to which seventy-one stars are carved - each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty...
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The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814
With all the immediacy of an eyewitness account, Anthony Pitch recounts the dramatic story of the British invasion of Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1814...
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The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War (Unabridged)
In this revelatory study, award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards outlines the links between the Gold Rush and the Civil War....
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