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Dreams From My Father

Dreams From My Father

by Barack Obama-

Published in 1995, this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then... Read more about this item
Founding Brothers

Founding Brothers

by Joseph J Ellis

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation is a Pulitzer Prize–winning book written by Joseph Ellis, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. This text explores how a group of individuals both gifted and flawed coped with the challenges of founding the United States.
Truman

Truman

by David McCullough

The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.

The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson—and dramatic events. In this riveting... Read more about this item
The Foxfire Book

The Foxfire Book

by Eliot Wigginton

The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining
The "Foxfire" books began as a student-produced magazine in 1966 that contains stories and interviews from elders in their rural Southern Appalachian community.  The books are anthology collections of material from The Foxfire Magazine, edited and published by Eliot Wigginton.
 
Why England Slept

Why England Slept

by John F Kennedy

Why England Slept is the published version of a thesis written by John F. Kennedy while in his senior year at Harvard College. Its title was an allusion to Winston Churchill's 1938 book While England Slept, which also examined the buildup of German power.
Isaac's Storm

Isaac's Storm

by Erik Larson

Erik Larson, a contributor to Time magazine, is the author of The Naked Consumer and Lethal Passage (Crown, 1994). His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, and other national magazines. He lives in Seattle.
The Years Of Lyndon Johnson

The Years Of Lyndon Johnson

by Robert A Caro

   For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best "exemplifies... Read more about this item
The Fifties

The Fifties

by David Halberstam

"A sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that David Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. It is the decade of Joe McCarthy and the young Martin Luther King, the Korean War and Levittown, Jack Kerouac and Elvis Presley."
Back To Basics

Back To Basics

by Reader's Digest Editors

This Reader’s Digest “BACK TO BASICS” handy book is a how-to, user-friendly guide that teaches self-sufficiency covering all of life’s essentials: shelter; alternative energy sources; growing and preserving food; home crafts; directions for making herbal remedies; and even home-grown entertainment.
The Path Between the Seas

The Path Between the Seas

by David McCullough

Describes all the events and personalities involved in the monumental undertaking which precipitated revolution, scandal, economic crisis, and a new Central American republic Bibliography: p. 655-669.
Includes index.
American Song Bag

American Song Bag

by Carl Sandburg

Famous poet Carl Sandburg was also a collector of American folk music. He compiled around 290 songs in this anthology, which contains singable words and music, including harmonies or accompaniment.
Some some titles include:
"No More Booze (Fireman Save My Child)" / "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" / 'The Foggy Dew' / 'Barbara Allen' / 'As I Was Walkin' Down Wexford Street' / 'Pretty Polly' / 'The House Carpenter' / 'The E-RI-E' / 'The Ballad Of De Boll Weevil' / 'The Buffalo Skinners' / 'Turkey In... Read more about this item
African Game Trails

African Game Trails

by Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt declined to run for reelection as President of the United States in 1908. Partly as a vacation, partly to avoid the press as his friend Taft set up a new administration, (and partly for self-promotion), T.R. set out for Africa to hunt big game and collect specimens for a future exposition at the Smithsonian. Scribner's magazine underwrote the trip by paying $50,000 for twelve articles. It is these articles that eventually became African Game Trails.In April 1909, T.R. and his son... Read more about this item
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

by Walter Isaacson

Christmas

Christmas

by Randolph E Haugan

American Heritage

American Heritage

by American Heritage

Beyond the Mississippi

Beyond the Mississippi

by Albert D Richardson

Crusade In Europe

Crusade In Europe

by Dwight D Eisenhower

Masters Of Deceit

Masters Of Deceit

by J Edgar Hoover

Death Of a President

Death Of a President

by William Manchester

Americana Books & Ephemera

A White House Diary

A White House Diary

by Johnson, Lady Bird

Includes index.
The Cheechakoes

The Cheechakoes

by Short, Wayne

The remarkable story of a remarkable family is narrated by Wayne Short, who shared with his father and mother and two younger brothers -- Dutch, fourteen, and Duke, sixteen -- the unique experience of a pioneer existence in the twentieth century. They were all cheechakoes -- Indian for "greenhorns" -- but the challenge of the wilderness only served to make their life more exciting, expecially for the boys.
Only In Alaska

Only In Alaska

by Thomas, Tay

Currier and Ives\' America

Currier and Ives' America

by Simkin, Colin

Lord Of Alaska

Lord Of Alaska

by Chevigny, Hector

Diplomat Among Warriors

Diplomat Among Warriors

by Murphy, Robert

A Treasury Of Alaskana

A Treasury Of Alaskana

by Becker, Ethel A

Jfk Reckless Youth

Jfk Reckless Youth

by Hamilton, Nigel

The Champlain Tercentenary

The Champlain Tercentenary

by Hill, Henry Wayland

Real Lace - America\'s Irish Rich

Real Lace - America's Irish Rich

by Birmingham, Stephen

Harry S Truman

Harry S Truman

by Truman, Margaret

The Men Of the Mountains

The Men Of the Mountains

by Spaulding, Arthur W

The Wilderness Of Denali

The Wilderness Of Denali

by Sheldon, Charles

Will Rogers

Will Rogers

by O'Brien, P J

People Of the Noatak

People Of the Noatak

by Fejes, Claire

An Artist Sees Alaska

An Artist Sees Alaska

by Poor, Henry Varnum

This Was America

This Was America

by Handlin, Oscar

Lewis & Clark

Lewis & Clark

by Bakeless, John

Old Plymouth Trails

Old Plymouth Trails

by Packard, Winthrop

Newport In the Rockies

Newport In the Rockies

by Sprague, Marshall

Incredible Tale

Incredible Tale

by Johnson, Gerald W