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Battle Cry of Freedom - James M. McPherson - 9780195038637 - 0195038630
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Battle Cry of Freedom - James M. McPherson - 9780195038637 - 0195038630

ISBN13: 9780195038637. ISBN10: 0195038630. by James M. McPherson. Published by Oxford University Press. Edition: 88 More at Textbooks.com

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Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

An evolutionary biologist dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for ...
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Latest review by waynio Dec 15, 2010
"Jared Diamond's 1997 bestseller, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a rare, mind-opening book that deserves..." Read full review

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Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

This history examines the influences of geography and environment on the development of civilization and seeks to find large patterns that might ...
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Latest review by relic_hunter24 Jan 8, 2012
"Jared Diamonds 'Guns, Germs and Steel' is one of the most well assembled and highly stimulating..." Read full review

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Doris Kearns Goodwin - No Ordinary Time: Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front In World War II

Doris Kearns Goodwin - No Ordinary Time: Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front In World War II

A biography of Eleanor Roosevelt and an intimate look at those residing in the White House during the war years shows how Eleanor and Franklin ...
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Latest review by charles Mar 9, 2002
"After reading this book, I came to one conclusion: Goodwin has given made history accessible not on..." Read full review

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John W. Dower - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

John W. Dower - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Chronicles the events that took place in Japan at the end of World War II and explores the effects they have had on the development and shaping of ...
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Latest review by rudean77 Jun 26, 2003
"John W. Dower's book, Embracing Defeat, came to me highly recommended. It has been a Pulitzer Priz..." Read full review

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Richard Hofstadter - Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Richard Hofstadter - Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Free Worldwide Delivery : Anti-intellectualism in American Life : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780394703176 : 0394703170 : 25 Oct 1973 : ...
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Latest review by jaseroque Jul 9, 2000
"I could not put this book down and that is saying a lot for a non-fiction, thickly-written book on..." Read full review

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Herbert P. Bix - Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Herbert P. Bix - Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

This biography of the emperor of Japan examines his formative years and how they shaped his character, his deft grasp of both the imperial system and ...
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Latest review by rooster3888 May 25, 2002
"Emperor Showa, commonly known as Hirohito in the United States, had from the end of World War II to..." Read full review

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Gordon S. Wood - Radicalism of the American Revolution

Gordon S. Wood - Radicalism of the American Revolution

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more ...
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Latest review by andrewnmonson May 29, 2000
"There are many common misconceptions about the American Revolution. In Gordon S. Woods, The R..." Read full review

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Jon Meacham - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham's account of the White House years of Andrew Jackson shows him to be a man of principle as well as of passion. Even in those days, says ...
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Latest review by sweaver May 8, 2010
"Author Jon Meacham, also editor of Newsweek magazine, follows up his World War II era book Franklin..." Read full review

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Richard Rhodes - Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

Richard Rhodes - Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

The Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb now tells the defintive, often shocking story of the politics and the science ...
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Latest review by basesurge Apr 21, 2006
"The Fifties were a great time, weren't they? (Not that anybody reading this actually remembers them..." Read full review

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Daniel Walker Howe - What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

Daniel Walker Howe - What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

A panoramic history of the United States ranges from the 1815 Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War and chronicles the ...

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Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) ...

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Arthur Herman - Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

Arthur Herman - Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

The epic struggle between Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill jumps to life from the pages of Arthur Herman's double biography. Detailing the lives ...

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Leon F. Litwack - Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery

Leon F. Litwack - Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery

<b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award</b><br>Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries ...

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William Cronon - Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

William Cronon - Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

In this groundbreaking work, a Yale University professor of history gives an environmental perspective on the history of 19th-century America. "No ...

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