American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
By: Joseph J. Ellis
4.23
Format: 9 pages, Audio CD
The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful exam…
Want to Read $ 13.99"The great sin of the originalists is not to harbor a political agenda but to claim they do not, and to base that claim on a level of historical understanding they demonstrably do not possess."-Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
"The great sin of the originalists is not to harbor a political agenda but to claim they do not, and to base that claim on a level of historical understanding they demonstrably do not possess."-Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
"The great sin of the originalists is not to harbor a political agenda but to claim they do not, and to base that claim on a level of historical understanding they demonstrably do not possess."-Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
"In fact, the past is not history, but a much vaster region of the dead, gone, unknowable, or forgotten. History is what we choose to remember, and we have no alternative but to do our choosing now."-Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
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1. Mornings on Horseback
By: David McCullough
4.09
Format: 445 pages, Paperback
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique… read more
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"I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live."-David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback
"A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal."-David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback
"To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their most exuberant companion. He never fired their imaginations or made them laugh as their mother could, …"-David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback
2. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.12
Format: 427 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, comes a surprising account o… read more
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"Midshipman Edward Pellew was in the British boat right behind Arnold's. The American general had escaped, but in his haste he had left behind his stock and buckle, which Pellew took as a keepsake. Ye…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
"In an October 6 letter to Lord Stirling, he set forth the principle that would guide his increasingly sophisticated intelligence-gathering efforts. "As we are often obliged to reason the designs of t…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
3. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
By: Henry Hazlitt
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lessonis a classic economic primer. But it … read more
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4. The Coming of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more
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5. How the States Got Their Shapes
By: Mark Stein
3.86
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake? We are so familiar with the map … read more
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6. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
By: Gordon S. Wood
3.98
Format: 240 pages,
From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic and winner of both the Pulitze… read more
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7. Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
By: Gordon S. Wood
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winnin… read more
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8. Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
By: Thomas F. Madden
4.28
Format: 381 pages, Hardcover
The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of ci… read more
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9. 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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10. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
By: C.W. Goodyear
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more
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11. These Truths: A History of the United States
By: Jill Lepore
4.40
Format: 960 pages, Paperback
Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review… read more
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"Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is mad…"-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
"Washington's Farewell Address consists of a series of warnings about the danger of disunion. The North and the South, the East and the West, ought not to consider their interests separate or competin…"-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
12. The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
By: Paul Bloom
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid … read more
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13. 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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14. Fascism: A Warning
By: Madeleine K. Albright
4.25
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes tod… read more
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"...to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor."-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
"Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)"-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
"Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was “bully,"-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
"A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields."-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
15. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
By: Bill Maher
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more
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16. The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future
By: Franklin Foer
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, wi… read more
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17. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
By: Dominic Erdozain
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more
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18. American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
By: Tim Alberta
4.17
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the makin… read more
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19. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
By: Matt Kracht
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
For those who have a disdain for birds, or for bird lovers with a sense of humor, this snarky illus… read more
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20. Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
By: H.W. Brands
3.92
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands offers a fresh and dramatic narrative of the Amer… read more
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21. The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
By: Brenda Wineapple
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
America's first presidential impeachment: A prize-winning author tells the story of the efforts by … read more
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22. Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
By: Philip Freeman
4.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Han… read more
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23. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
By: Katharine Hayhoe
4.31
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe… read more
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24. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
By: David Leonhardt
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more
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25. The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America
By: Winston Groom
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In this masterful narrative, Winston Groom brings his signature storytelling panache to the intrica… read more
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26. American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
By: Joseph J. Ellis
4.23
Format: 9 pages, Audio CD
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"The great sin of the originalists is not to harbor a political agenda but to claim they do not, and to base that claim on a level of historical understanding they demonstrably do not possess."-Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
"In fact, the past is not history, but a much vaster region of the dead, gone, unknowable, or forgotten. History is what we choose to remember, and we have no alternative but to do our choosing now."-Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
"Moreover, the very belief that Americans had somehow discovered the ultimate answer to mankind's eternal quandaries and were now poised to establish heaven on earth was a delusion that deserved to be…"-Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
27. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
28. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
By: Austin Frerick
4.20
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyo… read more
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29. Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
By: Steve Benen
4.50
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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30. Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
By: Brenda Wineapple
4.40
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent history of the 1925 Scopes trial and how the teaching of evolution in public schools … read more
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31. Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
By: Robert G. Parkinson
3.73
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A fundamentally new account of the American frontier, showing that it was defined not by hardy pion… read more
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