Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
By: Jon Meacham
3.78
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A celebration of America and the music that inspired people and illuminated eras, from the Revoluti…
Want to Read $ 4.99"A small thing, but in a dissonant world, every moment of harmony counts--and if we share music, we might just shout in anger a little less and sing in unity more. Or so we can hope."-Jon Meacham, Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
"A small thing, but in a dissonant world, every moment of harmony counts--and if we share music, we might just shout in anger a little less and sing in unity more. Or so we can hope."-Jon Meacham, Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
"There's something about the transporting capacity of music, something about it's odd but undeniable ability to create a collective experience by firing our individual imaginations, that's more likely to open our minds and our hearts to competing points of view."-Jon Meacham, Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
"There's something about the transporting capacity of music, something about it's odd but undeniable ability to create a collective experience by firing our individual imaginations, that's more likely to open our minds and our hearts to competing points of view."-Jon Meacham, Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
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1. Brave Companions: Portraits in History
By: David McCullough
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780671792763 From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Li… read more
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"…the little known events of a given time, and people who are not in the headlines can be what matters most in the long run – and the long run is the measure of history."-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
"Mainly, writing means a good deal of hard thinking … yet sometimes the very struggle of getting the words down on paper does result in unexpected discoveries or clarifications."-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
"The problem, as Thornton Wilder said, lies in the effort to employ the past tense in such a way that it does not rob those events of their character of having occurred in freedom."-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
"In writing history, to catch the feeling and well as the truth of other times, it is of utmost importance … to convey the sense that things need not have happened as they did…the past, after all, is …"-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
2. A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
By: Jimmy Carter
3.84
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherm… read more
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3. Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard
5.00
Format: None pages,
Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--rive… read more
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4. The Zimmermann Telegram
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, andThe Zimmermann Telegramcomprise … read more
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5. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
By: Al Franken
4.21
Format: None pages, ebook
From Senator Al Franken - #1 bestselling author and beloved SNLalum - comes the story of an award-w… read more
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6. Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West
By: David Fisher , Bill O'Reilly
3.37
Format: None pages, ebook
The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fasci… read more
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8. A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
By: John Feinstein
4.08
Format: 288 pages,
"A Season on the Brink" chronicles the basketball season that John Feinstein spent following the In… read more
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9. The Things Our Fathers Saw: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA-Voices of the Pacific Theater
By: Matthew A. Rozell
4.10
Format: 322 pages,
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10. It's a Long Story: My Life
By: Willie Nelson
3.71
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
The definitive autobiography of Willie Nelson "Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . … read more
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11. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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12. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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13. Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
By: Brian Kilmeade
4.22
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and th… read more
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14. The Incredible Winston Browne
By: Sean Dietrich
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Beloved writer Sean Dietrich—also known as Sean of the South—will warm your heart with this rich an… read more
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15. The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
By: Susan Page
4.11
Format: None pages, Audio CD
A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-apprecia… read more
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16. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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17. She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
By: Sarah Smarsh
3.81
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the pa… read more
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"There's a powerful wisdom in just leaving the bullshit for someone else to fix."-Sarah Smarsh, She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
"There is, then, intellectual knowledge--the stuff of research studies and think pieces--and there is experiential knowing. Both are important, and women from all backgrounds might possess both. But w…"-Sarah Smarsh, She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
18. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
By: David McCullough
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more
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19. Music Is History
By: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestseller, Music Is History combines multi-Grammy Award winner Questlove’s deep m… read more
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20. Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
By: Jeremy Eichler
4.54
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wart… read more
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21. In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.11
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of I… read more
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22. Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
By: Bill O'Reilly
3.67
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
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23. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
By: Mark Harmon
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more
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24. The Length of a String
By: Elissa Brent Weissman
4.37
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Imani is adopted, and she's ready to search for her birthparents. But when she discovers the diary … read more
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25. The Treehouse Library (Pages & Co.,#5)
By: Anna James
4.17
Format: None pages, None
A magical botanist A peculiar potion A secret garden A famous monster A return to the underlibr… read more
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26. Jackie
By: Dawn Tripp
4.34
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
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"not only because of the pleasure it will bring, but because the power of ideas, and the ability to express them, is the greatest power we have."-Dawn Tripp, Jackie
27. Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
By: Jon Meacham
3.78
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
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28. Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West
By: Jerry Enzler
4.41
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger st… read more
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29. Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be
By: Marissa R. Moss
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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"It is a story of how country music has used its gender wars as a cover for its deep imbedded desires to preserve and weaponize that whiteness."-Marissa R. Moss, Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be
"This isn't just a story of sexism in music. It's a story of America. Of how misogyny and class permeate the most basic of threads. And how power supersedes decency and art in the minds and hearts of …"-Marissa R. Moss, Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be
30. Air
By: Monica Roe
4.24
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An action-packed, empowering middle grade novel about a girl who has to speak up when her wheelchai… read more
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31. The Heart of Summer (Finfarran Peninsula, #6)
By: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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