Category - History
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When Money Grew on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his ...
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York ...
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George Eastman: A Biography
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Now back in print, this life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of the man who transformed the world of photography. In this revea...
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chr...
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Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Foreword by Janet Yellen Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China o...
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The King's Chinese: From Barber to Banker, the story of Yeap Chor Ee and the Straits Chinese
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /An informative and well-researched book, The King's Chinese provides a superb account of the Straits British Chinese, a distinct migrant society fr...
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The King's Chinese: From Barber to Banker, the story of Yeap Chor Ee and the Straits Chinese
HardcoverOriginal price $46.00 - Original price $46.00Original price $46.00$56.99$56.99 - $56.99Current price $56.99| /An informative and well-researched book, The King's Chinese provides a superb account of the Straits British Chinese, a distinct migrant society fr...
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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A NPR Best Book of the YearThe number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary Amer...
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780062964625 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Publication Date: 09-20-2022 Pages: 352 Product Dimensions...
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American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In 1913, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Henry Ford and famed naturalist John Burroughs. When their mutual interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson...
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Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Extensively researched and vividly written by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael D’Antonio, Hershey is the fascinating story of the uniqu...
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Out Where the West Begins: Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Between 1800 and 1920, an extraordinary cast of bold innovators and entrepreneurs—individuals such as Cyrus McCormick, Brigham Young, Henry Wells...
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The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /From the Pulitzer Prize–winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive bio...
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Preston Tucker and His Battle to Build the Car of Tomorrow
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A 2017 Michigan Notable Book After World War II, the American automobile industry was reeling. Having spent years building tanks and airplanes fo...
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The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “fascinating slice of rarely considered American history” (Booklist)—the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—whose annual summer sojourns int...
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The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLERA thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins.The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurou...
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American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A gripping, “rollicking” (John Carreyrou, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood) biography of Jay Gould, the greatest of the 19th-centur...
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The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war--and the steep price he paid for failingJim Thompson landed in Thaila...
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Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century, ...
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Empire: The House That John H. Johnson Built (The Life & Legacy of Pioneering Publishing Magnate)
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /African-American stories were overlooked by mainstream media until John H. Johnson showed the world the value of black life. In his magazines EBONY...
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The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war--and the steep price he paid for failingJim Thompson landed in Thaila...
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The Negro in Business
HardcoverOriginal price $51.95 - Original price $51.95Original price $51.95$56.99$56.99 - $56.99Current price $56.99| /This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, margina...
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Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs-A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires tells his most incredible story yet: A true dram...
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Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /How and why did this quintessential American folk-hero and pioneering industrialist become one of the most obsessive anti-Semites of our time-a man...
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