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  Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, it aimed to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty.

  • ISBN13: 9780140390032
  • Condition: New
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself
  
  Published in 1845, this autobiography powerfully details the life of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838 - how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learn...

  • ISBN13: 9780140390124
  • Condition: New
• Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition)
  
  With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds of people, he sadly noted the passing of region speech, fell in love with Montana, and was appalled by racism in New Orleans.

  • ISBN13: 9780142000700
  • Condition: New
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States)
  
  Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War.
• The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
  
   A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World Is Flat in 2005.
• Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
  
  Area 51It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades.
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  
  In the first volume of an extraordinary autobiographical series, one of the most inspiring authors of our time recalls--with candor, humor, poignancy and grace--how her journey began....From the Trade Paperback edition.
• The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will(Eventually) Feel Better
  
  Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation, the eSpecial heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of our economic malaise, is now-at last-a book. America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, ...
• Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
  
  Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as "a masterpiece" (John A. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography.

  • ISBN13: 9780671447540
  • Condition: New
• The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Modern Library)
  
  A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil War.
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
  
  Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981.  Was it murder or self-defense?  For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares.  John Berendt's sharply obs...

  • ISBN13: 9780679751526
  • Condition: New
• 1776
  
  In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and...

  • ISBN13: 9780743226721
  • Condition: New
• John Adams
  
  In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United ...
• Warman's U.S. Stamps Field Guide: Values and Identification (Warmans Field Guides)
  
  Stamps are popular with collectors for a number of reasons, such as the beautiful artwork, the historic events they depict, the celebration of pop culture, the fascination of finding errors, and their potential investment value. Stamp collecting isn't just for the wealthy elite.
• The Law
  
  The Law was originally published in French in 1850 by Frédéric Bastiat. It was written two years after the third French Revolution of 1848 and a few months before his death of tuberculosis at age 49. It is the work for which Bastiat is most famous. This translation to American English is from 1874.
• The Emancipation Proclamation (Little Books of Wisdom)
  
  A hardcover copy of the draft, preliminary, and final versions of Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863 Executive Order, the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's slaves.
• A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
  
  For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of...

  • ISBN13: 9781595230324
  • Condition: New
• Democracy in America Volume 2
  
  Democracy in America Volume 2 is a book written by Alexis de Tocqueville. It is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great novel will surely attract a whole new generation of readers.
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  
  Published in 1861, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” was one of the first personal narratives by a slave and one of the few written by a woman. Jacobs (1813-97) was a slave in North Carolina and suffered terribly, along with her family, at the hands of a ruthless owner.
• Life on the Mississippi
  
  This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
• Wealth of Nations (Optimized for Kindle)
  
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• Gettysburg Address
  
  This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.