by James W Loewen  
Publisher Comments Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Vincent Bugliosi Publisher Comments Famed Charles Manson prosecutor and three time #1 New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi has written the most powerful, explosive, and thought-provoking book of his storied career. In The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Bugliosi... (read more) Your Price $26.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Charles C. Mann
Powells.com Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to... (read more) Your Price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Erik Larson
Powells.com Staff Pick An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more) Your Price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jane Mayer Publisher Comments A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the War on Terror. In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists... (read more) Your Price $27.50 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Robert D Putnam
Publisher Comments In a groundbreaking bestseller based on vast new data, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and our democratic structures--and tells how we may reconnect.... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Jimmy Carter Publisher Comments President Carters challenging and provocative assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice for Palestinians--and one of the most important books of the year--is now available in paperback.... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Jimmy Carter
Publisher Comments Following his #1 New York Times bestseller Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. President... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by David McCullough
Publisher Comments The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Bakeless Publisher Comments In the spring of 1805, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, with a small band of men and a Shoshone woman, set out on a journey to explore the Western frontier-land of America, from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by Hillary Rodham Clinton Publisher Comments Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Candice Millard
Powells.com Staff Pick This true story traces the exploration of a previously un-navigated tributary of the Amazon River by Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by his son Kermit. The trip was extremely dangerous, and Candice Millard tells the story with detail that makes you... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
Revolution and Constitution Era by Carol Berkin Publisher Comments "Carol Berkin has now written the liveliest and most concise account yet of the adoption of the Constitution. With unflagging verve, she sweeps readers along as she introduces the players, canvasses the issues, and explains the critical decisions. And... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Alex De Tocqueville Publisher Comments The complete edition based on the revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition Originally penned in the mid-eighteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains the most penetrating and astute picture of American... (read more) Your Price $9.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by David McCullough
From Powells.com David McCullough is our most dependable presidential biographer. Each of his efforts has been a resounding success, combining popular appeal with literary accolades. Mornings on Horseback, about Teddy Roosevelt, won the National Book Award, his... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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