A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and ...
 In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted ... [... more]
$28.00
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Sister: The Life of Legendary Interior Decorator Mrs. ...
Born with the silverest of spoons in her mouth, Mrs. Henry Parish II went on to become, of all things, a working woman. Yet she couldn't have picked a métier more suited to her milieu. As a decorator, she drew upon both her blue-blood connections ... [... more]
$35.00
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Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond
In this eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business, the man who transformed IBM into the world's largest computer company reflects on his lifelong partnership with his father--and how their management style ... [... more]
$21.00
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A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
A Backward Glance is Edith Wharton's vivid account of both her public and her private life. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her ... [... more]
$16.00
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Theodore Rex
The most eagerly awaited presidential biography in years, Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris's classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It begins by following the new President (still the youngest in American history) as he comes down ... [... more]
$37.95
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Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852 ...
Though few Americans can identify Andrew Jackson Downing, who died in 1852 at just 36, his influence as an architect, horticulturist, writer, and town planner has been far-reaching. Through his writings and his designs, Downing helped lay the groundwork ... [... more]
$21.95
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most ... [... more]
$27.50
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal ...
By any standards, Howard Zinn has led a remarkable life as teacher, writer, and social activist, a life in which those three categories are viewed not as compartmentalized tasks but as part of a unified identity. You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, a ... [... more]
$14.00
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Book Three of Robert A. Caro's monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson-the most admired and riveting political biography of our era-which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent. Master of the Senate ... [... more]
$35.00
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Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life (2nd Edition)
Surely one of the most important women of the twentieth century, Eleanor Roosevelt's life, both personal and public, was greatly influential. She affected not just Americans, but the world; not just white women, but people of all sexes and races, and ... [... more]
$26.20
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Diary of an Early American Boy
Part the diary of Noah Blake, who was 15 in 1805, and part a re-creation of the life that a boy in his circumstances would have lived, this book is a loving tribute to a vanished way of life. Profusely illustrated, it will give its readers a sense of ... [... more]
$7.95
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Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a ...
In conjunction with its 100th anniversary, the Ford Motor Company opened its monumental archives to the unfettered research of author/historian Douglas Brinkley. And while the 800-page history that resulted from that work (as well as Brinkley's tireless, ... [... more]
$34.95
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