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| Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning
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Kathleen Burk.
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| Publisher: Atlantic Monthly. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780871139719. Daedalus Item Code: 13919 |
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| America's close bond with Great Britain seems inevitable, given our shared language and heritage. But as Berkeley- and Oxford-educated historian Kathleen Burk shows in this groundbreaking history, ... (Read More)
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| Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
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Ian W. Toll.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393068139. Daedalus Item Code: 23887 |
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| On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Only six months later, in a sea fight north of the ... (Read More)
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| The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
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Robert A. Caro.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780375713255. Daedalus Item Code: 38567 |
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| (Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography) The fourth entry in Robert A. Caro's Pulitzer Prize– and National Book ... (Read More)
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| Patriot Sage: George Washington and the American Political Tradition
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Gary L. Gregg II & Matthew Spalding, eds.
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| Publisher: ISI Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781882926381. Daedalus Item Code: 31156 |
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| "[This book] opens with a preface by William J. Bennett, former Secretary of Education, U.S. drug czar, and chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which states the conservative agenda ... (Read More)
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| Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation into War
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Steven M. Gillon.
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| Publisher: Basic Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780465021390. Daedalus Item Code: 30258 |
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| Following Japan's bombing raid of the U.S. fleet in Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed December 7, 1941, to be "a date which will live in infamy." Indeed, the events of that day ended the ... (Read More)
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| The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown
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Thomas Fleming.
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| Publisher: Smithsonian/BOMC. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061139109. Daedalus Item Code: 10507 |
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| On October 19, 1781, Great Britain's best army surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown, yet the future of the 13 former colonies was far from clear. George III had no intention of relinquishing ... (Read More)
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| The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom 1879–1960
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Douglas Brinkley.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780062005960. Daedalus Item Code: 22322 |
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| This riveting history of some of America's most beautiful natural resources, by the author of the National Outdoor Book Award–winning The Wilderness Warrior, documents the heroic fight waged ... (Read More)
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| Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books
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William Kuhn.
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| Publisher: Nan A. Talese. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780385530996. Daedalus Item Code: 31617 |
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| Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she revealed much of herself through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking ... (Read More)
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| Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11
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Kathryn S. Olmsted.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780195183535. Daedalus Item Code: 30764 |
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| A surprising number of Americans believe that their own government is guilty of such shocking hoaxes and crimes as shooting the president, faking the moon landing, and deliberately allowing the ... (Read More)
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| Rebel Private: Front and Rear: Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier
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William A. Fletcher.
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| Publisher: Meridian. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780452011571. Daedalus Item Code: 31115 |
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| Hailed by Civil War historians as an indispensable key to understanding the Southern perspective, with rare insight into the conflict from the point of view of a Confederate army enlisted man, this ... (Read More)
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