Category - History
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Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Damon DiMarco's Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition), eternally preserves a monumental tragedy in Amer...
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Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people ha...
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Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A new look at the drama that lay behind the end of the war in the PacificSigned on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri ...
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Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political...
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Glen Cove
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Situated on the beautiful north shore of Long Island, the city of Glen Cove is known as "the heart of the Gold Coast" and has a long and intricat...
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We're Not Leaving: 9/11 Responders Tell Their Stories of Courage, Sacrifice, and Renewal
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"We're Not Leaving" is a compilation of powerful first-person narratives told from the vantage point of World Trade Center disaster workers-polic...
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Firehouse
HardcoverOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A moving testament to the remarkable brotherhood of firemen, from the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author."In the firehouse the men not ...
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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book ...
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis.Longlisted for the Orwell Prize A New York...
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Fire Fighters: Stories of Survival from the Front Lines of Firefighting
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Firefighters have long been among the most admired men and women in our culture, and recent events have shown how well-placed that admiration is-...
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There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Washington Post style editor’s fascinating and irresistible look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary.The sa...
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A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history, Scott Nations, a longtime trader, financial engineer, and CNBC c...
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Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9/11
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Americans responded to the deadly terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, with an outpouring of patriotism, though all were not united in their ...
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with h...
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOKSelected by New York Times' critic Dwight Gar...
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /One of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley!The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big...
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Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The New York Times bestselling history of the glamour and debauchery of the ultra-wealthy Palm Beach community--from The Breakers to Trump's Mar-...
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Zeitoun
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Circle • The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disas...
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Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Ninth Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now update...
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Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Now in paperback, the riveting story of the response of the heroic pilots and air traffic controllers who found themselves on the front lines of ...
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102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"102 Minutes does for the September 11 catastrophe what Walter Lord did for the Titanic in his masterpiece, A Night to Remember . . . Searing, po...
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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume III): From the Collapse of Communism to the Rise of Radical Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /America began to breathe easy at the close of the Cold War and loosened its grip on the fear of nuclear confrontation for the first time since Wo...
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The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Jesse Walker’s The United States of Paranoia presents a comprehensive history of conspiracy theories in American culture and politics, from the c...
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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /* NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION * BEST BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION BY THE BOSTON GLOBE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * NPR * CHICAGO PUBLIC...
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