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A History of Britain, Volume 1
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Simon Schama
Available on:
Audio Download | Audio Cassette ($24.95)
In this, the first volume of an epic history of Britain, one of the most popular and celebrated historians of our day brings the birth and growth of a nation...
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A History of Britain, Volume 2
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Simon Schama
Available on:
Audio Download | Audio Cassette ($32.95)
The second volume of Simon Schama's A History of Britain brings the histories of Britain's civil wars...
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A History of Britain, Volume 3
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Simon Schama
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Audio Cassette ($32.95)
The triumphant conclusion of this engaging history of Great Britain stretches from the American Revolution to the present.
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A Perfect Union
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Catherine Allgor
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Audio Download | Audio CD ($49.95)
Introducing a major new American historian, A Perfect Union is both an illuminating portrait of an unsung founder of our democracy, and a vivid account of a little-explored time in our history.
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A Perfect Union
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Catherine Allgor
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Audio Download | Audio CD
Introducing a major new American historian, A Perfect Union is both an illuminating portrait of an unsung founder of our democracy, and a vivid account of a little-explored time in our history.
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Abraham Lincoln: The 16th President, 1861-1865
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George McGovern
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Audio CD ($23.96)
McGovern's account reminds us why we hold Lincoln in such esteem and why he remains the standard by which all of his successors are measured.
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Ask Not
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Thurston Clarke
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Audio Download | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
A close-up on one of American history's most splendid events, JFK's inaugural week, and the creation of the speech that inspired a generation and brought hope to a nation....
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Connections
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James Burke
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Audio Cassette
How are Hollywood movies the direct result of ivory billiard balls and a mountain in Ireland? A spellbinding look at eight inventions that altered the course of history and led us to where we are today.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Roy Jenkins
Available on:
Audio Download | Audio CD ($19.95)
Roosevelt's presidency was one of the most eventful in U.S. history.
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George Washington
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James MacGregor Burns
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Audio Download | Audio Cassette ($17.96)
Wealthy Virginia planter, revolutionary general, and founding president, George Washington was the most illustrious public man of his time....
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Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America
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Jason Goodwin
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Audio CD ($32.00) | Audio Cassette
From the author of "Lord of the Horizons" comes this examination of the dollar over the years as a form of art, a kind of advertising, a reflection of American attitudes, and a builder of empires.
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Grover Cleveland
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Henry F. Graff
Available on:
Audio Download | Audio Cassette ($25.95)
Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history.
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Harry S. Truman
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Robert Dallek
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Audio CD ($23.96)
The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century
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John Quincy Adams
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Robert V. Remini
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Audio Download | Audio Cassette ($23.36)
Robert V. Remini, offers us a fascinating portrait of a brilliant and complex man, and of a truly influential American life.
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Mirror to America
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John Hope Franklin
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Audio Download | Audio CD
Ninety years of American history as lived by the nation's preeminent African American historian and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Sweet and Low: A Family Story
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Rich Cohen
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Audio CD
Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low.
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The American Century, 1929-1945
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Harold Evans
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Audio Cassette
The winds began to blow in the spring and summer of 1929. Nobody took much notice. The stock market soared from peak to peak, and President Hoover foresaw a final triumph over poverty. But two storms, one environmental, one financial, were about to break over America-- with horrific consequences.
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The American Century, 1963-1989
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Harold Evans
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Audio Cassette
The "noble cause" of Vietnam was the longest war in America's history, the most unpopular war, and the first modern war America lost. Vietnam ended the belief that America had a duty to fight everywhere abroad for freedom.
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The American Century: 1889-1929
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Harold Evans
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Audio Cassette
The amazing adventure that is the American century begins-- and what an adventure it is! The Land Rush sweeps thousands of settlers into the Great Plains, devouring Indian land…
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The Day the Universe Changed
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James Burke
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Audio CD ($19.95) | Audio Cassette
Like a detective solving a mystery, the author traces clues to eight illuminating moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered humankind's understanding of itself and its world.
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The Intellectual Devotional: American History
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David S. Kidder
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Audio Download | Audio CD ($47.96)
Modeled after those bedside books of prayer and contemplation that millions turn to for daily spiritual guidance and growth, the national best-seller The Intellectual Devotional, offering secular wisdom and cerebral nourishment, drew a year's worth of readings from seven different fields of knowledge.
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The World Is Flat, Release 3.0
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Thomas L. Friedman
Abridged Edition
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Audio Download | Audio CD
When scholars write the history of the world 20 years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004", what will they say was the most crucial development?
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The World Is Flat, Release 3.0
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Thomas L. Friedman
Unabridged Edition
Available on:
Audio Download | Audio CD ($47.96)
When scholars write the history of the world 20 years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004", what will they say was the most crucial development?
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The World Without Us
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Alan Weisman
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Audio Download | Audio CD
Weisman, an award-winning journalist, offers listeners a penetrating--and sometimes terrifying--take on how the planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Louis Auchincloss
Available on:
Audio Download | Audio Cassette ($21.56)
The American century opened with the election of that quintessentially American adventurer, Theodore Roosevelt...
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