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| Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
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Alan Pell Crawford.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780812969467. Daedalus Item Code: 31299 |
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| This book offers an unprecedented look behind the public image of Thomas Jefferson by visiting him in his final years, from his return to Monticello in 1809 after two terms as president until his ... (Read More)
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| The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars
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Richard Overy.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670021130. Daedalus Item Code: 23420 |
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| The Wolfson Prize–winning author of The Dictators offers this remarkable analysis of how the fear of war shaped modern England. Britain had become a laboratory for modernity after World War ... (Read More)
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| The U.S. Army in World War II: The Stories Behind the Photos
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Steve Crawford.
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| Publisher: Potomac. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781597971331. Daedalus Item Code: 03122 |
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| From a group photo of U.S. servicemen in a prison camp, captured when the Japanese overran Mindanao in the spring of 1942, to an image of the Queen Mary steaming into New York in June 1945 ... (Read More)
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| Undefeated: America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor
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Bill Sloan.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781439199640. Daedalus Item Code: 31746 |
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| Following exclusive interviews with more than 30 survivors, military historian Bill Sloan tells the story of the outnumbered American soldiers and airmen who stood against invading Japanese forces in ... (Read More)
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| Unfamiliar Fishes
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Sarah Vowell.
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| Publisher: Riverhead. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781594487873. Daedalus Item Code: 31233 |
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| From the author of The Wordy Shipmates comes this examination of Hawaii as the place where "Manifest Destiny" got a sunburn. While many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, ... (Read More)
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| Unless Victory Comes: Combat with a Machine Gunner in Patton's Third Army
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Gene Garrison with Patrick Gilbert.
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| Publisher: Casemate. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781932033304. Daedalus Item Code: 13624 |
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| On December 16, 1944, Gene Garrison spent a terrifying 19th birthday crammed into a muddy foxhole near the German border in the Saar, listening to the cries of wounded comrades as artillery shells ... (Read More)
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| An Unlikely Prince: The Life and Times of Machiavelli
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Niccolo Capponi.
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| Publisher: DaCapo. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780306817564. Daedalus Item Code: 21876 |
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| "Niccolò Machiavelli is renowned for being one of the most famous writers of his time. While subsequent scribes have decried him as a cynic, a soulless proponent of tyranny, and a political genius, ... (Read More)
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| Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New York City During the Revolution
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Ruma Chopra.
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| Publisher: Univ Virginia Press/BOMC. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780813931098. Daedalus Item Code: 31667 |
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| Thousands of British American mainland colonists rejected the War for American Independence in the 1770s. Shunning rebel violence as unnecessary, unlawful, and unnatural, they emphasized the natural ... (Read More)
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| Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After
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Peter Sahlins.
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| Publisher: Cornell. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780801488399. Daedalus Item Code: 91913 |
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| Rather than date the establishment of modern political citizenship from the French Revolution of 1789, Peter Sahlins argues that the transformations began in the "citizenship revolution" of the 18th ... (Read More)
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| Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant
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Jeremy Musson.
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| Publisher: John Murray. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780719597305. Daedalus Item Code: 29753 |
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| For centuries, country houses were at the heart of British social, political, and sporting life, yet they could not have functioned without large numbers of skilled servants; by 1851, two million ... (Read More)
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| Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War
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Harry S. Stout.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780143038764. Daedalus Item Code: 21503 |
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| "In the Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers alike marched to battle believing God was on their side. [Harry S.] Stout, professor of American religious history at Yale, artfully and eloquently ... (Read More)
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