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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
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Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible fo... »
Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America
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I thoroughly enjoyed Allen Guelzo's latest offering, "Lincoln and Douglas." He does an excellent job of recreating the most turbulent era in our nation's history and immersing the reader in the lives and controversies of the participants. You can almost hear the hecklers at the debates and smell the smoke each time Douglas fires his "little giant" cano... »
John Adams
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Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who, David McCullough writes, was "not a man of the world" and not fond of politics--came to greatness as the second president of the United States, and one of the mos... »
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous
This is some great storytelling. A history book this well-researched is often rendered dryly academic with the laying out of facts, but Ethan Rarick has a... »
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson
I've read a fair amount of western history dealing with this period and the events therein and by all odds this book was one of the best ever. Highly reco... »
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of Am
Being retired and with a particular interest in this period of US history (for reasons disclosed below), I possessed both adequate time and motivation to ... »
Oxford Atlas of the World, 14th Edition
I purchased this as an office resource so I could have a better idea of tracking my globetrotting boss! After receiving it, I realize it has much more in... »
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
Stephen Budiansky has written a popular history of the Reconstruction era. His is no easy task, as Reconstruction falls far behind the Civil War as a subj... »
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jef
A biography of Meriwether Lewis that relies heavily on the journals of both Lewis and Clark, this book is also backed up by the author's personal travels ... »
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom
This book makes the Civil War period and slavery come alive, partly through the real voices of 2 emancipated slaves, and partly through the consumate writ... »
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