The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (The Annotated Books)
By: Ulysses S. Grant
4.57
Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover
With kaleidoscopic, trenchant, path-breaking insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most amb…
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By: Edmund Morris
4.23
Format: 816 pages, Paperback
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"Any black or red man who could win admission to “the fellowship of the doers"-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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2. The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
By: Michael Shaara
4.33
Format: 345 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two drea… read more
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3. Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
By: Taylor Branch
4.36
Format: 1062 pages, Paperback
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4. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
By: David Talbot
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more
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5. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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6. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
By: Marc Morris
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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7. Bolivar: American Liberator
By: Marie Arana
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By: Willa Cather
3.67
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3.60
Format: 224 pages,
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10. American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.21
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America'… read more
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11. Grant
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4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
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12. Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf
By: Anthony Ravielli , Ben Hogan
3.74
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A timeless classic with nearly one million copies in print, Ben Hogan's Five Lessonsoutlines the bu… read more
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13. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
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4.00
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In the tradition of Hidden Figuresand The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girlsis the astonishing, untol… read more
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14. The Nineties
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3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
15. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
16. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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By: Brad Stone
4.09
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Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller… read more
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18. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
By: Max Hastings
4.30
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more
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"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
19. A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
By: John Matteson
4.21
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
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20. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
By: Maureen Callahan
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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21. The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (The Annotated Books)
By: Ulysses S. Grant
4.57
Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover
With kaleidoscopic, trenchant, path-breaking insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most amb… read more
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