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The Last Indian War
The Nez Perce Story
by Elliott West
ISBN: 9780195136753
$27.95 Hardcover
Oxford University Press, USA
Pub Date: April
The Nez Perce War of 1877 was the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted government action, and of a doomed flight to freedom.
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The Birth of Modern Politics
Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828
by Lynn H. Parsons
ISBN: 9780195312874
$24.95 Hardcover
Oxford University Press, USA
Pub Date: May
The 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General Andrew Jackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed as a watershed moment in American political history. It was, many historians have argued, the country's first truly democratic presidential election.
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The G.I. Bill
The New Deal for Veterans
by Glenn C. Altschuler & Stuart M. Blumin
ISBN: 9780195182286
$24.95 Hardcover
Oxford University Press, USA
Pub Date: June
On rare occasions in American history, Congress enacts a measure so astute, so far-reaching, so revolutionary, it enters the language as a metaphor. Historians Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin offer a compelling and often-surprising account of the G.I. Bill and its sweeping and decisive impact on American life.
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The Bay of Pigs
by Howard Jones
ISBN: 9780195173833
$24.95 Hardcover
Oxford University Press, USA
Richly researched and vividly written, The Bay of Pigs provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of the disastrous attempt to overthrow Castro. Howard Jones offers an engaging and thoughtful account of the turning point in Kennedy's foreign policy and, indeed, in foreign policy for decades to come.
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Washington's Crossing
by David Hackett Fischer
ISBN: 9780195181593
$19.95 Paperback
Oxford University Press, USA
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times bestseller
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington refused to let the Revolution die.
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