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    Silent Spring Revolution

    Douglas Brinkley

    "A work of stunning erudition by one of our most brilliant chroniclers of the American past. By meticulously detailing how courageous activists sparked an environmental revolution that fueled the legislative…

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    The Town and the City

    Jack Kerouac

    A coming of age story, which draws on the author’s New England childhood.

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    American Coal

    Mary Jane Appel, Douglas Brinkley

    More than 100 powerful images by noted photographer Russell Lee that document the working conditions and lives of coal mining communities in the postwar United States; publication coincides with an…

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    The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960

    Douglas Brinkley

    In this follow up to his acclaimed Wilderness Warrior, New York Times -bestselling historian Brinkley offers a fascinating look at Alaska’s wilderness.

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    John Kerry and the Vietnam War

    Douglas Brinkley

    Acclaimed historian Brinkley explores Senator John Kerry’s tour of duty in Vietnam and odyssey from highly-decorated war veteran to outspoken antiwar activist, drawing on exclusive access to Kerry’s personal diaries…

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    Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt And The Land Of America [Large Print]

    Douglas Brinkley

    Previously released by HarperCollins Publishers, A2016.

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    Dean Acheson and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy

    This volume of essays, written by an eminent group of diplomatic historians, are designed as a tribute to the work of Dean Acheson. As President Truman’s Secretary of State between…

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    Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt And The Land Of America

    Douglas Brinkley

    Douglas Brinkley’s The Wilderness Warrior celebrated Theodore Roosevelt’s spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision to protect 234 million acres of wild America. Now, in Rightful Heritage, Brinkley turns his…

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    American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

    Douglas Brinkley

    From New York Times bestselling historian, Douglas Brinkley, a fresh look at Americas race to the moon in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing on July…

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    Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

    Douglas Brinkley

    New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties, telling a highly charged story of an indomitable generation that…

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    Gerald R. Ford

    Douglas Brinkley

    The accidental president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisis

    When Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a…

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    Cronkite

    Douglas Brinkley

    For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as the most trusted man in America. Millions across the nation welcomed him into their homes, first as a print reporter for the United…

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    Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America

    Douglas Brinkley

    The acclaimed, award-winning historian- America’s new past master (Chicago Tribune)-examines the environmental legacy of FDR and the New Deal.

    Douglas Brinkley’s The Wilderness Warrior celebrated Theodore Roosevelt’s spirit of outdoor…

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    American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

    Douglas Brinkley

    From New York Times bestselling historian, Douglas Brinkley, a fresh look at Americas race to the moon in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing on July…

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    Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, 1953-71

    Douglas Brinkley

    Acheson was President Harry Truman’s secretary of state, the American father of NATO and active in US foreign policy after World War II. He was also a Democratic Party activist…

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    The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion

    Professor Douglas Brinkley

    Brinkley offers a chronicle of both the heroism of the brave men who conquered Point du Hoc on June 6, 1944, as well as the speech President Ronald Reagan made…

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    The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

    Professor Douglas Brinkley

    A New Orleans resident and history professor at Tulane University, Brinkley rips the story of Hurricane Katrina apart and exposes the failures, ulterior motives, and inexperience that allowed the Katrina…

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    American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

    Professor Douglas Brinkley

    In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, New York Times -bestselling author and historian Brinkley delivers a young readers’ edition of a story rooted in heroism…

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    The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America

    Professor Douglas Brinkley

    Award-winning historian Brinkley examines the life and achievements of America’s Naturalist President. The author argues that it was Theodore Roosevelt–by setting aside 230 million acres of Wild America for posterity–who…

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    American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

    Professor Douglas Brinkley

    From New York Times bestselling historian, Douglas Brinkley, a fresh look at Americas race to the moon in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing on July…

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    Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine

    Mark Davidson (ed.), Parker Fishel (ed.)

    Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine is an unprecedented glimpse into the creative life of one of America's most groundbreaking, influential and enduring artists.

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    Lost in Katrina

    Mikel Schaefer

    Survival chronicles in the wake of Hurricane Katrina

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    Why Not the Best?: The First Fifty Years

    Jimmy Carter

    In this autobiography, Jimmy Carter details the youth and experiences that led him to seek the highest office in the land. He describes his idyllic childhood, his naval career, his…

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    The Nixon Tapes: 1973

    The blueprint for Nixon’s downfall, based on tapes released from 2010 to 2013, most of which have never been published. These are the very last Nixon tapes, and no president…

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    The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy

    David Margolick

    No issue in America in the 1960s was more vital than civil rights, and no two public figures were more crucial in the drama of race relations in this era…

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    The Notes: Ronald Reagan’s Private Collection of Stories and Wisdom

    Ronald Reagan,Douglas Brinkley

    Deals with the mind of the fortieth US President Ronald Reagan and the writers and thinkers to whom he turned for advice, inspiration, humor, and hope. This title includes Reagan’s…

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    FDR and the Creation of the U.N.

    Townsend Hoopes,Douglas Brinkley

    An account of the American role in creating the United Nations, this text explains how the idea of the UN was conceived, debated and revised, first within the US government…

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    Rosa Parks: A Life

    Douglas G. Brinkley

    An eminent historian follows Rosa Parks from her childhood in Jim Crow Alabama through her early involvement in the NAACP to her epochal moment of courage and her afterlife as…

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    Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress

    An evaluation of the impact of Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company on human civilization discusses the successes of early car models while noting specific ways in which automobile technology…

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    Tiburcio Carias: Portrait of a Honduran Political Leader

    Thomas J. Dodd,Douglas Brinkley

    This biography of Honduras’ longest-serving head of government, Tiburcio Carias (1876-1969), offers a vital account of his life and career. Dodd shows Carias to have been a pragmatist and political…

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    South of Freedom

    Carl T. Rowan,Douglas Brinkley

    This balance sheet of American race relations examines the racial mood of the South in the early 1950s and describes the discrimination that the author, a young African-American journalist, encountered…

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    The Reagan Diaries

    Ronald Reagan,Professor Douglas Brinkley

    During his two terms in office, Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine…

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    The Codex of the Endangered Species Act

    Lowell E. Baier

    A comprehensive history that covers all aspects of America's most important and controversial environmental law. It describes the history of extinction, the creation of ESA, subsequent legislative, judicial, and political…

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    Hell’s Angels

    Hunter S. Thompson

    The author’s harrowing and critically acclaimed first book chronicles his year riding with the Hell’s Angels and other motorcycle gangs, an experiment that ended when he was beaten nearly to…

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    Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968-1976

    Hunter S Thompson,Douglas Brinkley

    Letters spanning the years between 1968 and 1976 highlight the author’s biting wit, scary powers of observation, and encounters with such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut.

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    John F. Kennedy and Europe

    This volume includes contributions by British historian Alistair Horne and journalist John Newhouse. They treat topics such as Kennedy’s relationships with European leaders, his Italian and Portuguese policies, the Limited…

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    North American Wildlife Policy and Law

    Students, university faculty, and wildlife professionals now have an indispensable book that provides a full and accurate account of natural resource policy and law as it relates to wildlife in…

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    Mississippi: And the Making of a Nation

    Douglas Brinkley,Stephen E Ambrose

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    Mississippi: And the Making of a Nation

    Douglas Brinkley,Stephen E Ambrose

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