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  • The Fish on the Ceiling

    by Robin Glenn ...
    Annie has fish on her ceiling. Find out what happens when she can't find them one day! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Debt of Gratitude

    How Jimmy Carter Put Vietnam Veteran's Issues on the National Agenda

    by Glenn Robins ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    Georgia Author of the Year, history categoryOn December 15, 1972, as rumors swirled of a pending peace agreement between the United States and North Vietnam, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter issued an executive order creating the Georgia Advisory Committee on Vietnam Veterans. His reasoning was simple: “the citizens of the state of Georgia and of the United States of America owe a debt of gratitude ... Read more

    Was $35.99 USD Now $23.79 USD

  • Transforming Civil War Prisons

    Lincoln, Lieber, and the Politics of Captivity

    by Paul J. Springer, Glenn Robins ...
    Series series Critical Moments in American History
    During the Civil War, 410,000 people were held as prisoners of war on both sides. With resources strained by the unprecedented number of prisoners, conditions in overcrowded prison camps were dismal, and the death toll across Confederate and Union prisons reached 56,000 by the end of the war. In an attempt to improve prison conditions, President Lincoln issued General Orders 100, which would ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • America and the Vietnam War

    Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation

    Edited by Andrew Wiest, Mary Kathryn Barbier, Glenn Robins ...
    The Vietnam War was one of the most heavily documented conflicts of the twentieth century. Although the events themselves recede further into history every year, the political and cultural changes the war brought about continue to resonate, even as a new generation of Americans grapples with its own divisive conflict.America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Longest Rescue

    The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson

    by Glenn Robins ...
    While serving as a crew chief aboard a U.S. Air Force Rescue helicopter, Airman First Class William A. Robinson was shot down and captured in Ha Tinh Province, North Vietnam, on September 20, 1965. After a brief stint at the "Hanoi Hilton," Robinson endured 2,703 days in multiple North Vietnamese prison camps, including the notorious Briarpatch and various compounds at Cu Loc, known by the inmates ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President

    Portrait of a President

    by Robert Dallek ...
    Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Michael Beschloss, in The Los Angeles Times, said that it "succeeds brilliantly." The New York Times called it "rock solid" and The Washington Post hailed it as "invaluable." And Sidney Blumenthal in The Boston Globe wrote that it was "dense with astonishing incidents." Now Dallek has condensed ... Read more

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  • The NRA

    The Unauthorized History

    by Frank Smyth ...
    For the first time, the definitive account of America's most powerful, most secretive, and most controversial nonprofit, and how far it has strayed from its origins.The National Rifle Association is unique in American life. Few other civic organizations are as old or as large. None is as controversial. It is largely due to the NRA that the U.S. gun policy differs so extremely — some would say so ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Shattering

    America in the 1960s

    by Kevin Boyle ...
    From the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade whose conflicts shattered America’s postwar order and divide us still.On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

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  • Panic at the Pump

    The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s

    by Meg Jacobs ...
    An authoritative history of the energy crises of the 1970s and the world they wrought.In 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices and tempers rising across the country. Dark Christmas trees, lowered thermostats, empty gas tanks, and the new fifty-five-mile-per-hour speed limit all suggested that America was a nation in decline. "Don't be fuelish" ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson

    The White House Years

    by Joseph A. Califano Jr. ...
    One of “five best books about wartime presidents” (Michael Bechloss, The Wall Street Journal).From Lyndon Johnson’s closest domestic adviser during the White House years comes a book in which “Johnson leaps out of the pages in all his raw and earthy glory” (The New York Times Book Review) that’s been called “a joy to read” (Stephen Ambrose, The Washington Post Book World). And now, a new ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Flawed Giant

    Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973

    by Robert Dallek ...
    Flawed Giant--the monumental concluding volume to Robert Dallek's biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson--provides the most through, engrossing account ever published of Johnson's years in the national spotlight. Drawing on hours of newly released White House tapes and dozens of interviews with people close to the President, Dallek reveals LBJ as a visionary leader who worked his will on Congress like ... Read more

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  • The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order

    1964-1980

    by Steven F. Hayward ...
    The Age of Reagan brings to life the tumultuous decade and a half that preceded Ronald Reagan’s ascent to the White House. Drawing on scores of interviews and years of research, Steven F. Hayward takes us on an engrossing journey through the most politically divisive years the United States has had to endure since the decade before the Civil War.Hayward captures an America at war with itself—and ... Read more

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