The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America
By: Benjamin Reiss
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reis…
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1. Our Simple Gifts: Civil War Christmas Tales
By: Owen Parry
3.82
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
Offers a heartwarming array of Civil War holiday stories, from a Union officer struggling home thro… read more
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2. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
By: Dan Simmons
4.27
Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more
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"You have to live to really know things, my love"-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
3. Lincoln and His Generals
By: T. Harry Williams
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Evaluates Lincoln's ability as a director of war and his influence on the development of a modern c… read more
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4. The March
By: E.L. Doctorow
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia t… read more
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5. The End of Eternity
By: Isaac Asimov
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a man whose job it is to range through past and present Centuries, mon… read more
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6. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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7. The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
By: Bruce Levine
3.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that confl… read more
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8. The Lost Gettysburg Address
By: David T. Dixon
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The dedication of the Gettysburg Soldier's Cemetery on November 19, 1863, was more than a way to ho… read more
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9. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 888 pages, Hardcover
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was … read more
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- race
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"Douglass told white northern voters that 'The blood of the slave is on your garments. You have said that slavery is better than freedom. That war is better than peace. And that cruelty is better than…"-David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
10. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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11. Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command
By: Kent Masterson Brown
4.57
Format: 475 pages, Hardcover
Although he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fir… read more
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12. The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America
By: Benjamin Reiss
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reis… read more
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13. The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
By: Brian Holden-Reid
4.23
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the … read more
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"Sherman was a warrior, not a scholar, but he thought deeply about the issues posed by war. The Marches were to Sherman fundamentally a moral expression of Union military power, even a moral equivalen…"-Brian Holden-Reid, The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
