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American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, Movie-making, and the Crime of the Century (Thorndike Large Print Crime Scene)

by Howard Blum

Published: 2009-01-07

Hardcover: 509 pages

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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

by Jon Meacham

Published: 2008-11-11

Hardcover: 512 pages

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The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880's

by Henry Steele Commager

Published: 1959-09-10

Paperback: 490 pages

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In a book written out of a passionate belief in the staying powers of the democratic principles, a noted historian has written a major work that may be described as an interpretation of American thought and character since the 1880s. "Impressive in its inclusive sweep."-Joseph Wood Krutch, New York...

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American Music (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Jane Mendelsohn

Published: 2011-06-14

Paperback: 256 pages

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The celebrated author of I Was Amelia Earhart brings us a brilliant, kaleidoscopic story of human connection that soars with imagination, spirit, and Mendelsohn's distinctive mesmerizing style. Honor is a physical therapist with a mysterious patient in Milo, the Iraq war veteran whose dest...

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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

by Colin Woodard

Published: 2012-09-25

Paperback: 384 pages

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An endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven nations that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard North America is made up of eleven distinct nations each with its own unique historical roots In American Nations he takes...

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American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

by Craig Ferguson

Published: 2009-10-01

Hardcover: 268 pages

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In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his mark?as a pu...

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American Pastoral

by Philip Roth

Published: 1998-02-03

Paperback: 423 pages

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Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeHere is Philip Roth's masterpiece—an elegy for the American century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry...

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American Pie: A Novel

by Michael Lee West

Published: 1997-10-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads

by Pascale Le Draoulec

Published: 2003-04-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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Crossing class and color lines, and spanning the nation (Montana has its huckleberry, Pennsylvania its shoofly, and Mississippi its sweet potato), pie -- real, homemade pie -- has meaning for all of us. But in today's treadmill, take-out world -- our fast-food nation -- does pie still have...

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The American Plague

by Molly Caldwell Crosby

Published: 2007-09-04

Paperback: 384 pages

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In this national-bestselling account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' horrors,"*-and moving on to today's strain of the killer virus. Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed go...