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  • Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot?

    And Other Unsolved Mysteries of Baseball

    by Paul Aron ...
    Advance Praise for Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot?"Aron has found the Rosetta stone to all of baseball's enduring mysteries, and he skips it along the pond with utter disregard for the ducks. His fortunate readers will have so much fun they may not even notice that they are becoming, page by page, real experts. Here is surefire water-cooler ammo."--JOHN THORN, editor of Total Baseball"Paul Aron puts ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Founding Feuds

    The Rivalries, Clashes, and Conflicts That Forged a Nation

    by Paul Aron ...
    The fascinating untold stories of America's founding fathers!The Founding Fathers have been hailed for centuries as shining examples of men who put aside their own agendas to found a nation. But behind the scenes, there were more petty fights and fraught relationships than signatures on the Declaration of Independence.From the violent brawl between Roger Griswold and Matthew Lyon in the halls of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lineup

    Ten Books That Changed Baseball

    by Paul Aron ...
    Focusing on the ten most influential baseball books of all time, this volume explores how these landmark works changed the game itself and made waves in American society at large. Satchel Paige's Pitchin' Man informed the dialog surrounding integration. Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al changed the way Americans viewed their baseball heroes and influenced the work of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Bill ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • American Stories

    Washington's Cherry Tree, Lincoln's Log Cabin, and Other Tales—True and Not-So-True—and How They Spread Throughout the Land

    by Paul Aron ...
    American Stories follows the evolution of our founding stories and myths and how they spread far and wide throughout our history. The story of the cherry tree, for example, tells us nothing about George Washington’s actual childhood, but surely it tells us something about what Americans wanted in the father of their country—an incorruptible leader of the people.Along the same lines, the story of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Founding Feuds

    The Rivalries, Clashes, and Conflicts That Forged a Nation

    by Paul Aron ...
    Narrated by Richard Ferrone ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 15 min

    The Founding Fathers have been hailed for centuries as shining examples of men who put aside their own agendas to found a nation. But behind the scenes, there were more petty fights and fraught relationships than signatures on the Declaration of Independence. From the violent brawl between Roger Griswold and Matthew Lyon in the halls of Congress, to George Washington's battle against his slave ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Unsolved Mysteries of American History

    An Eye-Opening Journey through 500 Years of Discoveries, Disappearances, and Baffling Events

    by Paul Aron ...
    Narrated by Kurt Elftmann ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 27 min

    \"A lively tour through our past and an ingenious primer in the art of historical detection." --Robert A. Gross, author of The Minutemen and Their World Did Leif Ericsson beat Columbus to America? What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? Did Pocahontas really save John Smith? Did Davy Crockett die at the Alamo? What really happened to Amelia Earhart, and was she a spy? Who killed JFK? Unsolved ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    by Ron Chernow ...
    **The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation."Grand-scale biography at its best—thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written . . . A genuinely great ... Read more

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  • Madison and Jefferson

    by Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg ...
    “[A] monumental dual biography . . . a distinguished work, combining deep research, a pleasing narrative style and an abundance of fresh insights, a rare combination.”—The Dallas Morning NewsThe third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson’s genius overshadowing James Madison’s judgment and common sense. But in this revelatory book about their ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Liberty's First Crisis

    Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech

    by Charles Slack ...
    "Slack engagingly reveals how the Federalist attack on the First Amendment almost brought down the Republic . . . An illuminating book of American history." — Kirkus Reviews , starred reviewIn 1798, with the United States in crisis, President John Adams and the Federalists in control of Congress passed an extreme piece of legislation that made criticism of the government and its leaders a crime ... Read more

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  • Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

    An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Franklin & Washington

    The Founding Partnership

    by Edward J. Larson ...
    "Larson's elegantly written dual biography reveals that the partnership of Franklin and Washington was indispensable to the success of the Revolution." —Gordon S. WoodFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a masterful, first-of-its-kind dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, illuminating their partnership's enduring importance.NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of Washingto.. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The President and the Freedom Fighter

    Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

    by Brian Kilmeade ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.**In The President and the Freedom Fighter, Brian Kilmeade tells the little-known story of how two American heroes moved from strong disagreement to friendship, and in the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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