The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
By: Don E. Fehrenbacher , None , David Morris Potter
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
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1. The Radicalism of the American Revolution
By: Gordon S. Wood
4.08
Format: 447 pages, Paperback
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analys… read more
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"the republican revolution was the greatest utopian movement in American history. The revolutionaries aimed at nothing less than a reconstruction of American society....They sought to reconstruct a so…"-Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
"The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western history that most ordinary people, most of those who labored, could scarcel…"-Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
2. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
By: Charles B. Dew
4.23
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the s… read more
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3. The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
By: Shelby Foote
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Shelby Foote begins a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our histor… read more
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4. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
By: Rick Perlstein
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more
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5. 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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6. Trial by Battle: The Hundred Years War, Volume 1
By: Jonathan Sumption
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
A succession of catastrophes in the middle years of the fourteenth century brought France to the br… read more
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7. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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8. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence
By: Carol Berkin
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the … read more
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9. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
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10. The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
By: Don E. Fehrenbacher , None , David Morris Potter
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
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11. The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
By: Richard J. Evans
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implaca… read more
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12. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
By: Richard White
3.75
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The Oxford History of the United Statesis the most respected multivolume history of the American na… read more
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13. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
By: Daniel Walker Howe
4.42
Format: 288 pages,
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14. 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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15. The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
By: Richard J. Evans
4.83
Format: 266 pages,
The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the r… read more
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16. 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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17. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
By: Eric Foner
3.91
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
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18. Profiles in Courage
By: Caroline Kennedy , Robert F. Kennedy , John F. Kennedy
3.92
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline K… read more
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"To be courageous, these stories make clear, requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place and circumstance."-Caroline Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
"You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know E…"-Caroline Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
"If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housi…"-Caroline Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
19. The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453
By: Desmond Seward
3.80
Format: 240 pages,
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20. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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21. 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
22. 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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"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
23. Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
By: Bob Drury
4.06
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
The Instant New York Times BestellerNational Bestseller"[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall … read more
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24. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
By: Susan Rogers
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secret… read more
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25. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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26. 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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27. Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next
By: Bradley Onishi
4.33
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Watching the eerie footage of the January 6 insurrection, Bradley Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left… read more
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28. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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29. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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30. 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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31. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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