The Era of Good Feelings
By: George Dangerfield
3.86
Format: 530 pages, Paperback
Here is history as delightful as it is profound. Exploring the period between Jeffersonian democrac…
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1. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
By: Nancy MacLean
4.29
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establ… read more
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- american
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"Both Buchanan and Calhoun[...] were concerned wit the "failure of democracy to preserve liberty"-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
"Interestingly, these conclusions issued from purely abstract thought experiments, not from any research on political practice."-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
"...as Einhorn points out: "The anti-government rhetoric that continues to saturate our political life is rooted support for slavery rather than liberty"-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
"[...] Rothbard explained, was "that it was intervention of the State that in itself created the classes and the conflict", not the labor relations of the economy, as previous thinkers believed"-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
2. Washington's Crossing
By: David Hackett Fischer
4.15
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A power… read more
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- american history
- history
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"Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again."-David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing
"Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning."-David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing
3. Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
By: Taylor Branch
4.36
Format: 1062 pages, Paperback
First of a 3-volume social history, Parting the Waters is more than a biography of the Rev. Martin … read more
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- american
- history
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4. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
By: Russell Shorto
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polygl… read more
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- american history
- american
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"If what made America great was its ingenious openness to different cultures, then the small triangle of land at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is the New World birthplace of that idea, the spot…"-Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
"The first Manhattanites didn't arrive with lofty ideals. They came--whether as farmer, tanner, prostitute, wheelwright, barmaid, brewer, or trader--because there was a hope for a better life. There w…"-Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
"Henry Hudson was in his forties when he stepped into the light of history, a seasoned mariner, a man with a strong and resourceful wife and three sons, a man born and raised not only to the sea but t…"-Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
"Many people--whether they live in the heartland or on Fifth Avenue--like to think of New York City as so wild and extreme in its cultural fusion that it's an anomaly in the United States, almost a fo…"-Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
5. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
By: Joseph J. Ellis
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
The prizewinning author of Founding Brothersand American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--… read more
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- history
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6. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-w… read more
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- nonfiction
"There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Many of the so-called American characteristics,’ a chronicler of the [WW2 University of Minnesota starvation] experiment wrote, ‘—abounding energy, generosity, optimism—become intelligible as the exp…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent cont…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
7. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By: Jared Diamond
3.93
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
8. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
By: Rick Atkinson
4.67
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
9. The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
By: Don E. Fehrenbacher , None , David Morris Potter
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
"David M. Potter's magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the comin… read more
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- american
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
10. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
By: Samantha Power
2.50
Format: 52 pages,
A character-driven study of some of the darkest moments in our national history, when America faile… read more
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11. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.88
Format: 461 pages, Hardcover
HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN? This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an … read more
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"W"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors--and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed--they risked losing everything."-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"For all they had suffered during those first terrible winters in America, their best years were behind them, in Leiden. Never again would they know the same rapturous sense of divine fellowship that …"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
12. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
By: Rick Perlstein
3.00
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
A bold and astute narrative history of conservatism's climb and one of the best-reviewed books of 2… read more
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13. 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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14. The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
By: Thomas Asbridge
4.22
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the H… read more
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- history
"The Lionheart had arrived."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"Zangi was now sixty-two and still in remarkably rude health."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"Time and again in the Middle Ages, warrior-kings, seen by their men in the thick of fighting, turned the tide of battle, assuring victory."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"The first Latin up a ladder was Aubery Clements, marshal of France, one of Philip’s leading knights. It was said later among the Christians’ forces that, before climbing the breach, Aubery had called…"-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
15. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II
By: Eric Foner , Roger Daniels
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part of Hill and Wang's Critical Issues Series and well established on college reading lists, PRISO… read more
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16. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
By: Timothy Egan
4.05
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like no… read more
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"It still scares people driving cars named Expedition and Outlander... Throughout the Great Plains, a visitor passes more nothing than something. Or so it seems."-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
"Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What …"-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
17. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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18. Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
By: H.W. Brands
4.24
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the Am… read more
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19. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By: Eric Foner
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more
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20. Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
By: H.W. Brands
4.13
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteen… read more
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21. The Era of Good Feelings
By: George Dangerfield
3.86
Format: 530 pages, Paperback
Here is history as delightful as it is profound. Exploring the period between Jeffersonian democrac… read more
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