...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the ...
 Insightful, Revealing and Ahead of its Time: I purchased this book when it first came out 20 years ago. At the time, it was very controversial. Author McDougall suggested that President Eisenhower actually wanted the Soviet Union to be the first to [... more]
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Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, ...
Author: Walter A. McDougall Binding: Library Binding Dewey Decimal Number: 973.2 EAN: 9781435292383 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 1435292383 Number Of Pages: 638 Publication Date: 2008-05-29 [... more]
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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the ...
Insightful, Revealing and Ahead of its Time: I purchased this book when it first came out 20 years ago. At the time, it was very controversial. Author McDougall suggested that President Eisenhower actually wanted the Soviet Union to be the first to [... more]
$13.95
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Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877
Lively, entertaining but broader theme does not work: This is a history of the Civil War period, which McDougall rather oddly defines as 1829 to 1877. (I follow why it ends with 1877, but why does it begin with 1829?) In most ways, this is a very good [... more]
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Let the Sea Make a Noise...: A History of the North ...
Gets worse each time I read it...: This is one of those books that a) read really racist only a few years after they're written, and b)are really off when it comes to speculating about the future. For example: this book rah-rah's the United States, [... more]
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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the ...
Insightful, Revealing and Ahead of its Time: I purchased this book when it first came out 20 years ago. At the time, it was very controversial. Author McDougall suggested that President Eisenhower actually wanted the Soviet Union to be the first to [... more]
$58.00
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Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877
Lively, entertaining but broader theme does not work: This is a history of the Civil War period, which McDougall rather oddly defines as 1829 to 1877. (I follow why it ends with 1877, but why does it begin with 1829?) In most ways, this is a very good [... more]
$34.95
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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the ...
Insightful, Revealing and Ahead of its Time: I purchased this book when it first came out 20 years ago. At the time, it was very controversial. Author McDougall suggested that President Eisenhower actually wanted the Soviet Union to be the first to [... more]
$87.00
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Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: ...
The Textbook You Wish You'd Had in School: Did we need one more history of the US? Even McDougall isn't so sure about that. But he manages to find a path that hasn't been beaten down. Where the tendency of American historians has been to find One Big Peg [... more]
$29.95
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Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: ...
The Textbook You Wish You'd Had in School: Did we need one more history of the US? Even McDougall isn't so sure about that. But he manages to find a path that hasn't been beaten down. Where the tendency of American historians has been to find One Big Peg [... more]
$17.95
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Let the Sea Make a Noise...: A History of the North ...
Gets worse each time I read it...: This is one of those books that a) read really racist only a few years after they're written, and b)are really off when it comes to speculating about the future. For example: this book rah-rah's the United States, [... more]
$19.95
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... The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of ...
Insightful, Revealing and Ahead of its Time: I purchased this book when it first came out 20 years ago. At the time, it was very controversial. Author McDougall suggested that President Eisenhower actually wanted the Soviet Union to be the first to [... more]
$25.95
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