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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Liberation Trilogy)
Rick Atkinson
Holt Paperbacks
Holt Paperbacks
Amazon Best of the Month, November 2007 : Topping a Pulitzer Prize-winning effort is tough; finding originality in a World War II narrative is even tougher. Yet Rick Atkinson accomplishes both with The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy,...
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Essays on the Great Depression
Ben S. Bernanke
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with...
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John Adams
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who, David McCullough writes, was "not a man of the world" and...
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Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep)
Princeton Review
Princeton Review
Princeton Review
Scoring high on the AP U.S. History Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about American history—only the strategies and information you’ll need to...
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Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective
Al Santasiere
Pocket
Pocket
It's been eighty-five years since Yankee Stadium opened. Soon the Yankees will leave the field, fans will file out and the lights will fade. But the lights will never go out on the Stadium that has proudly worn the moniker "The House That Ruth...
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Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser
Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as...
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The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever
Mark Frost
Hyperion
Hyperion
From the best selling author of The Greatest Game Ever Played is this powerful, emotional and suspenseful story of "the greatest private match ever played." The challenge was staged in 1956 by Eddie Lowery, former 10-year old caddie to U.S. Open...
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Sarah Vowell
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable stories on public radio's ...
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