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Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay

Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay

Patrick Brantlinger

Walden

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Peace Warrior

Peace Warrior

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True North: A Journey Into Unexplored Wilderness

True North: A Journey Into Unexplored Wilderness

Elliott Merrick

Life in a Medieval Village

Life in a Medieval Village

Frances Gies & Joseph Gies

The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House

The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House

Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War

Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War

Richard Ned Lebow

Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed History

Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed ...

Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse

Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant ...

James L. Swanson

Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America

Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America

Erika Lee & Judy Yung

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil ...

Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Jefferson Cowie

The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce

The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, ...

Hallie Rubenhold

The Book in the Renaissance

The Book in the Renaissance

Andrew Pettegree

The Story of the Scrolls: The Miraculous Discovery and True Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Story of the Scrolls: The Miraculous Discovery and True ...

Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory

Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory

The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty

The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty

Churchill

Churchill

In Brown's Wake: Legacies of America's Educational Landmark

In Brown's Wake: Legacies of America's Educational Landmark

Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch

Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte ...

Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's ...

The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the ...

Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War

Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War

Andrew Bacevich

Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq

Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World ...

John C. McManus

The Good Soldiers

The Good Soldiers

Life in a Medieval Castle

Life in a Medieval Castle

Joseph Gies & Frances Gies

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and ...

The Faded Map: The Lost Kingdoms of Scotland

The Faded Map: The Lost Kingdoms of Scotland

Alistair Moffat

Where Men Win Glory

Where Men Win Glory

For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace

For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy ...

Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman

Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman

The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology ...

Paul D. Brinkman

Launching the War on Poverty: An Oral History

Launching the War on Poverty: An Oral History

Michael L. Gillette

Oxford Oral History Series (1)

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light

Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light

Search and Destroy: The Story of an Armored Cavalry Squadron in Vietnam: 1-1 Cav, 1967-1968

Search and Destroy: The Story of an Armored Cavalry Squadron ...

Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion

Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't ...

Trail of Blood

Trail of Blood

The Americans: The Colonial Experience

The Americans: The Colonial Experience

Daniel J. Boorstin

Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century

Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century

Thomas E. Woods

Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century

Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion ...

Kenneth Osgood & Andrew K. Frank

Truman

Truman

David McCullough

Twain's Feast

Twain's Feast

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, ...

First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama

First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama

Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War

Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War

The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary, 1918–1928

The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary, 1918–1928

Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels Between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today ... And the Lessons You Can Learn

Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels Between Great Leaders ...

Steve Forbes & John Prevas

The Ninth: Beethoven & the World in 1824

The Ninth: Beethoven & the World in 1824

Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth

Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth

The End of Empire: Attila the Hun & the Fall of Rome

The End of Empire: Attila the Hun & the Fall of Rome

Christopher Kelly

Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization

Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency

The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security ...

97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in ...

Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot

Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot

Martin W. Sandler

Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies

Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance ...

Turn Left at the Trojan Horse

Turn Left at the Trojan Horse

Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of ...

Laney Salisbury & Aly Sujo

The Irony of Manifest Destiny: The Tragedy of America's Foreign Policy

The Irony of Manifest Destiny: The Tragedy of America's Foreign ...

The Last Empty Places: A Past and Present Journey Through the Blank Spots on the American Map

The Last Empty Places: A Past and Present Journey Through the ...

Remembering Pittsburgh: An "Eyewitness" History of the Steel City

Remembering Pittsburgh: An "Eyewitness" History of the Steel ...

Len Barcousky & David M. Shribman

The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II

The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the ...