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J. B. Lippincott First Edition 1966. Fair Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Previous owner's library stamp and very small area of written numbers on front endpapers. Large chip and two small closed tears of one early page. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ with slight tanning; in a clear protective cover. A near contemporaneous account of the Cuban Missile Crisis by a veteran NBC newsman. Illustrated with Defense Department photos that brought on the crisis. Maps on endpapers. more information

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National Geographic Society First Edition 1966. Very Good Hardcover in no Dustjacket. Pictorial boards; decorated endpapers. Some warping of front board. Mild edge and corner wear. Book is tight and bright. Foreword by Mrs. Lyndon Johnson. Introduction by Bruce Catton. Many Photos and Drawings. more information

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HarperCollins 2000. Near Fine Trade Paperback. The very slightest creasing of wraps - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Originally published in 1931, Only Yesterday traces the rise of post-World War I prosperity up to the Wall Street crash of 1929 against a colorful background of flappers, speakeasies, the first radio and the scandalous rise of skirt hemlines. more information

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Pocket Books 1982. Very Good Mass Market Paperback. Slight edge wear of wraps and gentle creasing of spine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "Celebrating the centenary of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's birth, political journalist Joseph Alsop, a member of the Roosevelt family, has created a startling and intimate memoir of one of the greatest presidents of this century." Illustrated. more information

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Tom Doherty First Edition 1999. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. For more than fifty years Jack Anderson has been seen as a crusader against corruption. His columns exposing fraud, waste, and abuse have shocked the world, and he has become one of the most respected reporters of all time. In Peace, War, and Politics, Anderson gives us a through-the-keyhole look at the personal side of many of our country's most controversial figures. Illustrated. more information

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Tom Doherty First Edition 1999. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. For more than fifty years Jack Anderson has been seen as a crusader against corruption. His columns exposing fraud, waste, and abuse have shocked the world, and he has become one of the most respected reporters of all time. In Peace, War, and Politics, Anderson gives us a through-the-keyhole look at the personal side of many of our country's most controversial figures. Illustrated. more information

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American Heritage/Bonanza 1987. Fine Tall (4to) Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a few small stains; in a clear protective cover. Richly illustrated. more information

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Barnes & Noble 1992. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. THE LIVING LINCOLN is based on the famous nine-volume edition of THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, a work which has been called the cornerstone of any library of American history. more information

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Castle 2007. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Excitingly told and meticulously researched, Jeff Davis’s Own is an intriguing and colorful saga of the commanders who united to fight an enemy on its native ground, then divided again to fight each other across the battlefields of their own homeland. Illustrated. more information

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Viking Penguin First Edition 2000. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Our twenty-eighth president was, says Louis Auchincloss, "the greatest idealist who ever occupied the White House. more information

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Dodd, Mead First Edition 1982. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ price clipped - else Fine; in a clear protective cover. A history of travel on America's rivers, the Great Lakes and the Erie Canal focusing on steamboats and the other types of boats used. Illustrated with photos, old prints and maps. more information

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Dodd,Mead First Edition 1982. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ price clipped-else As New; in a clear protective cover. A history of travel on America's rivers, the Great Lakes and the Erie Canal focusing on steamboats and the other types of boats used. Illustrated with photos, old prints and maps. more information

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Reader's Digest First Edition 1977. Fine Hardcover in Fair Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge wear, scuffs and tears; in a clear protective cover. "Here, in one superb volume, is the story of America's greatest adventure - the new country, the Indians, the people, the wars, the trails, and the great bonanzas of silver and gold." more information

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Crown Forum Third Printing 2004. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A peculiar feature of our country today, says Michael Barone, is that we seem to produce incompetent eighteen-year-olds but remarkably competent thirty-year-olds. more information

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Oxford University Press First Edition 2003. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Robert H. Jackson was Attorney General, a Supreme Court Justice and the American Chief Prosecutor at the Nurnberg Trial. This is his newly discovered memoir of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, written before Jackson's death in the early 1950s. Illustrated. more information

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Vintage 1979. New Unread Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "Columbus called them 'Indians' because his geography was faulty. But that name and, more importantly, the images it has come to suggest have endured for five centuries, not only obscuring the true identity of the original Americans but serving as an ideological weapon in their subjugation." more information

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Simon and Schuster First Edition 1982. Very Good Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Previous owner's small signature on front free endpaper and small area of writing on back endpaper - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ with several tiny closed tears and chips; now nicely held in a clear protective cover. The Grandes Dames is the fascinating story of those rich and powerful women who for the better part of a century - from the 1870's to the Second World War -ruled American society and our most cherished cultural institutions with flair, inventiveness and the sure hand of authority that make today's jet set and beautiful people seem like thin parodies. Illustrated. more information

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Atlantic Monthly/Little,Brown 1986. Near Fine Trade Paperback. Slight wear of wraps. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Catherine Drinker Bowen's classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dramatic session that produced the most enduring of political documents - the Constitution of the United States. more information

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Random House 1998. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "They came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America - men and women whose everyday lives of duty, honor, achievement, and courage gave us the world we have today." more information

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Random House 1998. Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Very faint bottom edge spotting - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. more information

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Simon & Schuster 1997. New Unread Trade Paperback. Small, blue, bottom edge stain. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Challeging the modern perceptions of Washington as either a political figurehead of little actual importance or a folk legend rather than a real man, Brookhiser traces the president's amazing accomplishments as a statesman, soldier, and founder of a great nation in a quarter century of activity that remains unmatched by any modern leader. Brookhiser goes on to examine Washington's education, ideals, and intellectual curiosity, illuminating how Washington's character and values shaped the beginnings of American politics. more information

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Harper & Row First Edition 1966. Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild edge and corner wear; in a clear protective cover. Illustrated. more information

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Barnes & Noble 2000. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The story of those who entered the New World through Ellis Island - in their own words. Illustrated. more information

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Penguin 1997. New Unread Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The unbelievable true story of the Amistad - a nineteenth-century slave ship taken over by its captives. more information

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William Morrow First Edition 1972. Near Fine Hardcover in Fair Dustjacket. Very faint edge spotting. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ with edge wear, scuffing and a tiny chip of back; in a clear protective cover. Professor Callahan's biography of Washington during the Revolutionary War years vividly portrays him in human terms as a public and private man, military leader and citizen. Through colorful vignettes, moving scenes and dramatic narrative, George Washington, his generals and ordinary soldiers are brought alive. Illustrated. more information

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Broadway Books First Edition 2001. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue great white shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history. more information

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Harvard University Press 1998. Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. “More than any other of the renowned ‘Wise Men’ who shaped America’s vision of the world in the aftermath of World War II, Dean Acheson was the quintessential man of action, the driving force behind the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO. Illustrated. more information

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Simon & Schuster First Edition 2005. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Placing the important happenings and great figures of our history into context and showing the expansion of freedom in this land that we love, A Time for Freedom is a book that families will cherish and want to share toghether. Illustrated. more information

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Penguin Press First Edition 2004. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Ron Chernow...brings to startling life the man who was the principal designer of the federal government, the catalyst for the emergence of the two party system, the patron saint of Wall Street, and the object of ardent idolatry as well as vehement loathing by his peers. more information

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New American Library First Printing 1968. Very Good Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Small area of writing on front free endpaper (Bookseller's name, date and price)-else Fine. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A portrait of Senator Joseph McCarthy by the young lawyer closest to him in the heyday of "McCarthyism". Illustrated. more information

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Simon & Schuster Book Club Edition 1994. Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a tiny, closed tear - else Fine; in a clear protective cover. A completely unique view of America's longest lasting and most powerful dynasty. more information

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Alfred A. Knopf 1977. Very Good Oversized Trade Paperback. Mild wear and creasing of wraps.Book is tight, bright and unmarked. An insightful history of America - nicely illustrated. “It is the book that grew out of Alistair Cooke’s forty-year love affair with his adopted country, out of his pursuit of the American essence, his exploration of the byways of our past, his sharing and observing of our present.” more information

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Alfred A. Knopf Third Printing 1980. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Full cloth binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. An incisive look at the America of the 1970s through the eyes of the reknowned British author and journalist. Delivered as a series of talks on the BBC. more information

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Alfred A. Knopf Fifth Printing 1974. Good Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Decorated endpapers. Mild wear and spotting of cloth binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild edge wear with a small, closed tear and slight soiling; now nicely held in a clear protective cover. An alive and open-hearted view of our history, a book imbued with all the wit, color, knowledge, and home truths born of its author's enduring affection for his adopted country. Very well illustrated. more information

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Villard First Edition 1994. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A behind the scenes examination of The New York Times by New York magazine media columnist and New York University journalism professor, Edwin Diamond. more information

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Scribner First Edition 2001. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Famous for his deadpan humor, New York Times bestselling author Senator Bob Dole here brings us his favorite witticisms and hilarious remarks of this country's commanders in chief. more information

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Scribner First Edition 2001. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Famous for his deadpan humor, New York Times bestselling author Senator Bob Dole here brings us his favorite witticisms and hilarious remarks of this country's commanders in chief. more information

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Random House Fourth Printing 1972. Very Good Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. A trace of top edge spotting and slight wear of bottom board edges. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with creasing of flaps and slight edge wear; now in a clear protective cover. "She is a furious champion of the native-born Hawaiians and does for them what earlier writers have done for the American Negro, the Chicano, and the Indian. more information

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A.S.Barnes Book Club Edition 1955. Near Fine Hardcover in Poor Dustjacket. Book has mild edge wear of boards. It is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge wear, small chips and closed tears and a number of small holes of front; now in a clear protective cover. An informal history covering every administration through the Eisenhower administration. Illustrated with many, many photos and drawings. more information

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Simon and Schuster 1972. Good Trade Paperback. Moderate wear and sunning of wraps. Spotting of edges. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight; text is bright. A collection of the essays of the noted anti-Vietnam War activist. more information

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University of Oklahoma Press First Edition 1963. Near Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Top edge stained blue. Faint edge spotting. Book has slight edge wear of boards. It is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild edge wear; in a clear protective cover. Perhaps the greatest contemporary account of the infant U. S. Republic written by a foreigner. In Miranda's diary, is to be found an instructive and highly suggestive description of the new nation during its natal period. Translated by Judson P. Wood. Illustrated. more information

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Oxford University Press First Edition 2004. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. This (big, well-illustrated) book studies American ideas of liberty and freedom as visions of an open society, through the symbols they have inspired from the Revolutionary era through 9/11. more information

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Simon & Schuster First Edition 1996. Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Bottom edge remainder mark - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ with very slight edge/corner wear; in aclear protective cover. "In a chronicle of three generations of three working class families, award-winning journalist Samuel G.Freedman tells the human story of the political transformation of twentieth-century America..." Illustrated. more information

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Frederick A. Praeger First Edition 1966. Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with two small closed tears; in a clear protective cover. A firsthand portrayal of Lyndon Johnson's responses to a world that would not "work to his clock"; of the manner in which he has been known to upbraid an Asian diplomat caustically one day and engage - successfully - in sensitive, high-level diplomatic niceties the next. Here, too, is a candid, often surprising report on Johnson's uniquely personal reactions to the problems, frustrations and demands of world politics - and to the critics of those reactions. more information

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Beacon Press First Edition 2000. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The first illustrated history of African-American farmers, Homecoming is a requiem for a way of life that has almost disappeared. more information

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University of Missouri Press Fourth Printing 1996. New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. THE TRAIL OF TEARS ACROSS MISSOURI is a moving account of the 1837-1838 removal of the Cherokees from the southeastern United States to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). more information

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Simon & Schuster 1995. Very Good Oversized Trade Paperback. Mild wear of wraps. Book is tight and bright. Gift inscription on an endpaper. INSCRIBED by the author on another. "No Ordinary Time is a compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created." Illustrated. more information

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Hydra / Smithsonian Institution First Edition 2002. New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Decorative laminated binding. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Highly informative and illustrated with hundreds of rare images, West Point in the Making of America charts the extraordinary roles that West Point graduates have played in the growth of the United States from a struggling new nation to a world power. more information

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Kingston House 1958. Near Fine Hardcover in Poor Dustjacket. Very slight edge wear of binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge wear with small chips and closed tears; now held in a clear protective cover. more information

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Gramercy 1994. Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The selections in The Essential Thomas Jefferson have been taken from the 1853 collection of Jefferson's writings prepared from his original manuscripts and published by the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library. more information

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