Our Flag Was Still There: The Star Spangled Banner that Survived the British and 200 Years―And the Armistead Family Who Saved It
By: Tom McMillan
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Our Flag Was Still There details the improbable two-hundred-year journey of the original Star-Spang…
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1. Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
By: Dan Jones
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plantagenets, a short, lively, action-packed h… read more
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2. 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
By: David Pietrusza , David Pietrusza
3.97
Format: 533 pages, Hardcover
The presidential election of 1920 was one of the most dramatic ever. For the only time in the natio… read more
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"Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness,"-David Pietrusza, 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
"Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of 'common hatred"."-David Pietrusza, 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
"Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he …"-David Pietrusza, 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
3. Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
By: Robert L. O'Connell
3.78
Format: 479 pages,
William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriotis a bold, … read more
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4. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard
3.67
Format: None pages,
A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abrah… read more
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5. Personal Memoirs
By: Ulysses S. Grant , Geoffrey Perrett
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant's are lucid, compelling, and brutally honest, a chronicle of triump… read more
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6. The Long Flight Home
By: Alan Hlad
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here Inspired by fascinating, true, yet … read more
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"It wasn't a miracle. You believed. And made it happen."-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home
"Of wartime London: It looked as if London was being cremated, one piece at a time."-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home
" Be an egg , Susan thought. One could be soft with fear inside, but hard as slate outside."-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home
"Ollie watched the cemetery disappear in the distance and wondered if there would be enough trees in all of Britain to build the coffins."-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home
7. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
By: Douglas Brunt
4.23
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more
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"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
8. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
9. The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
By: James L. Swanson
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding ac… read more
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10. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
By: James Holland
4.33
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more
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11. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
By: Eric Jay Dolin
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet m… read more
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12. The Way I Heard It
By: Mike Rowe
4.18
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating col… read more
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"My father has a tendency to start conversations in the middle of sentences. He’s also suspicious of anything modern - like nouns."-Mike Rowe, The Way I Heard It
"The fact that we heated most of the old farmhouse with nothing but a woodstove was a source of great pride for my father and endless inspiration for witticisms like, “Chop your own wood it’ll warm yo…"-Mike Rowe, The Way I Heard It
"Personally, I don’t mind being corrected, even when I’m right. It’s nice to know that people are paying attention. But when I am corrected, I prefer it to be in the style of Lieutenant Dixon. He didn…"-Mike Rowe, The Way I Heard It
"If you ask the other John and Peggy (my parents) how they’ve managed to stay married for well over half a century, they’ll credit an uncompromising level of honesty with each other. If you press them…"-Mike Rowe, The Way I Heard It
13. First: Sandra Day O'Connor
By: Evan Thomas
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were… read more
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"She is an achieving woman without an edge. She is good-looking without being alienatingly beautiful and bright without being alarmingly intellectual,' wrote McGrory."-Evan Thomas, First: Sandra Day O'Connor
14. To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
By: Bret Baier
4.40
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Instant New York Times Bestseller #1 New York Times bestselling author Bret Baier reveals how Geo… read more
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15. Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
By: Bret Baier
4.37
Format: 416 pages, ebook
President Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by the #1 bestse… read more
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16. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
By: Joseph J. Ellis
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in d… read more
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17. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more
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"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
18. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.59
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist… read more
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19. The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler
By: Deborah Cadbury
4.38
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Named one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022 The extraordinary true story of a courageous sch… read more
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20. Our Flag Was Still There: The Star Spangled Banner that Survived the British and 200 Years―And the Armistead Family Who Saved It
By: Tom McMillan
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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21. The Answer Is No: A Short Story
By: Fredrik Backman
4.13
Format: 68 pages, Kindle Edition
In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities … read more
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