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The American West

Dee Brown

Michael Kammen Pulitzer Prize Winner, New York Newsday A galloping, anecdotal narrative of the trans-Mississippi West...

Don't Know Much About the Civil War

Kenneth C. Davis

By the vastly amusing author of Don't Know Much About History and Don't Know Much About Geography, this fresh look at...

Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul

Clara Bingham

“In her excellent oral history of the tumultuous events of 1969 and 1970, . . . [Clara Bingham] does a fine job...

Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Dover Books on Americana)

Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Review Warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative. ― The Wall Street Journal

U.S. History For Dummies

Steve Wiegand

From the Back Cover Learn: To appreciate the people, events, and places that shaped our nation To appreciate the...

Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Emory M. Thomas

From Publishers Weekly Thomas, a distinguished historian of the Civil War (The Confederacy as a Revolutionary...

Mayor for Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr.

Marion Barry

About the Author Marion Barry, Jr., a four-term mayor of Washington, D.C., has dedicated forty years of his life to...

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

Daniel James Brown

From Booklist The story of the ill-fated Donner party, a group of nineteenth-century settlers en route to California...

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan

A vivid and gritty piece of forgotten history." ---USA Today Timothy Egan is a national enterprise reporter for the New...

Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America

Sam Giancana

Review “ Amazing and shocking disclosures. ” ( New York Daily News )“ Now the young Sam Giancana tells all . . ....

Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West (Frontier Lawmen)

Tom Clavin

Absorbing. . . . Fun and revealing all the way through. . . . Mr. Clavin gives Earp his due, but one of the virtues of...

Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Women of the West)

Elinore Pruitt Stewart

From Publishers Weekly George provides biographical insight into the author of the 1914 pioneer classic Letters of a...

The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

Sam Wasson

A New York Times bestseller "The wondrous thing about Sam Wasson’s new book is that it feels both necessary and...

Black Dahlia Avenger: The True Story

Steve Hodel

...Steve Hodel has come to put the Black Dahlia painfully to rest. Hodel's investigation is thoroughly and completely...

Mosby's Memoirs (Southern Classics Series)

John Singleton Mosby

Colonel John S. Mosby was one of the Confederacy's most effective and colorful cavalry leaders. Operating in Northern...

Janesville: An American Story

Amy Goldstein

“The most illuminating business book of the year.... If you really want to understand what’s going on in today’s...

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

Dan Fagin

Deftly combines investigative reporting and historical research to probe a New Jersey seashore town's cluster of...

Point Man

Kevin Dockery

About the Author Kevin Dockery is the military historian and field curator for the UDT/SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce,...

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

Bridgett M. Davis

New York Times Editor's Choice Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year Parade Best Book of 2019 Kirkus Best Memoirs of the Year...

Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War

Steve Inskeep

“In the hands of National Public Radio journalist Steve Inskeep, the Frémonts become a vehicle to explore media, the...

Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America

Craig Childs

“It’s a clever, smartly written and altogether enthusiastic effort to breathe feeling and life into the human...

Where I Was From

Joan Didion

“Compelling. . . . A love song to the place where her family has lived for generations, but a love song full of...

Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football

Rich Cohen

“Every year brings a Super Bowl, World Series, NBA, and Stanley Cup champion. All are duly noted and celebrated. But...

Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

Andrew Carroll

Readers should fasten their seatbelts ...Carroll's explorations are strangely compelling—I started wondering what...