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Presents a collection of writings by Thomas Jefferson.

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The Power to Persuade tells how the four magazines persuaded that opposition to support America's going to war, and rallied the electorate to belligerent military confrontation against the Nazi-led Axis.

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Brings together some of the top American historians to offer a look at one of the most controversial US presidencies. This book examines the successes as well as the failures, covering different major aspect of Bush's two terms in office.

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In this acclaimed biographical novel, Irving Stone brings to life the tender and poignant love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson. "Beyond any doubt one of the great romances of all time." - The Saturday Review of Literature

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This fascinating guide documents the transformation of government from passive observer to active participant and ally of the American people during the late-19th and early-20th centuries.

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The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a visible kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct would be according to God's laws. This book discusses the desire of the Puritans to be socially virtuous and their wish to force social virtue upon others.

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This book sheds light on the aesthetics and politics of class in contemporary filmmaking in Venezuela, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. Its comparative methodology and combination of close textual and media industrial analyses provides a much-needed update of figurations of class on the screen.

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This book sheds light on the aesthetics and politics of class in contemporary filmmaking in Venezuela, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. Its comparative methodology and combination of close textual and media industrial analyses provides a much-needed update of figurations of class on the screen.

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This gripping account of how America and the world found out about the Civil Rights movement is written by two veteran journalists of the "race beat" from 1954 to 1965. Building on an exhaustive base of interviews, oral histories, and news stories, the authors provide a fresh account of the events.

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Most Americans consider him the greatest president ever, but Lincoln is shown here as a man who set about transforming a decentralized government into a highly centralized, activist one. The author argues that the war was not to abolish slavery, rather it was to promote the supremacy of the federal government.

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As the sole purveyors of news and opinion, Reconstruction-era newspapers bent and spindled American public opinion with little regard for independent journalism and great regard for party politics.

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Nevada's Paiutes spoke of a race of statuesque red-headed cannibals who attacked and ate members of the surrounding tribes. What happened to the giants, and why is their history shrouded in mystery Floyd Wills's investigation reveals compelling evidence on the case of the red-haired giants.

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During the 1930s, a battle was waged over both philosophy and policy between those who described themselves as liberals, both inside and outside the Roosevelt administration.

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Yet after the British withdrew, a host of new challenges confronted the United States, including the Articles of Confederation, Shay's Rebellion, the Bill of the Rights, the Whiskey Rebellion, slavery, women's roles, the French Revolution, the XYZ Affair, the Sedition Act, and more.

Again, the press not only purveyed the facts.

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Part of the "Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History" series, this volume presents a survey of the life of the ordinary American soldier during the Revolutionary War; focuses on the soldiers themselves, including women and minorities; and, uses primary source materials to show the war from the soldiers' point of view.

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First part of the two-volume chronicle of the birth, life and death of the Confederacy written by Jefferson Davis. It covers the period from the Missouri Compromise in 1820 to the readmission of the Southern states to the US Congress in the late 1860s.

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Second part of the two-volume chronicle of the birth, life and death of the Confederacy written by Jefferson Davis. It covers the period from the Missouri Compromise in 1820 to the readmission of the Southern states to the US Congress in the late 1860s.

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Essays discuss the Depression, the Cold War, the Great Society, and the Silent Majority.

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This challenging book explores the debates over the scope of the enumerated powers of Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment that accompanied the expansion of federal authority during the period between the beginning of the Civil War and the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.