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U.S.  History  Dept.

General U.S. History Columbus & After Colonial Times Revolutionary Times Manifest Destiny XXth Century Mid-XXth Century XXIst Century

Books (and a few movies) on the past of the United States of America (exclusive of books on political issues)
with an eye toward not repeating the mistakes of prior generations.

Spirit of America Bookstore's U.S. Politics Pages

Spirit of America Bookstore's U.S. Presidents Pages
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
George W. Bush
Barack Obama

History / United States books catalog at Amazon
United States History Posters category at AllPosters.com

U.S. History Timeline Pages
up to 1800   •   1801-1900   •   1901-1930   •   1931-1950   •   1951-1968   •   1969-2000   •   2001 to present

Spirit of America Bookstore's TreasonGate Timeline Page

Working Minds / Solutions / American Labor History Timeline

Spirit of America Bookstore's G.O.P. Economic Meltdown Timeline

General  U.S.  History

	"A History of American Labor" [1961] by Joseph G. Rayback Free Press 8¼x5½ pb [1/66] for $23.95
	"Harvey Wasserman's History of The United States" [1972] self-published 9x6 pb [3/2004] for $18.00 4 Walls 8 Windows 8x5¼ pb [12/88] out of print/used author's website
	"Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt" [1997] by John Steele Gordon Walker & Co. 8x5½ pb [rev 3/2010] for $10.88 Penguin 7¾x5 pb [1/98] out of print/used Diane Publng 8½x5¼ hardcover [2/97] for $21.00 author's official website
	"The Century" [1998] by Peter Jennings & Todd Brewster companion book for both the 12-hour ABC News series and the 15-episode History Channel series Doubleday 10½x9¼ hardcover [11/98] out of print/hundreds used
	"The American Century, 1889-1989" [1998] by Harold Evans Knopf 11x8¾ pb [10/2000] out of print/used Knopf 11½x9½ hardcover [9/98] out of print/many, many used
	"The Century: America's Time" 15-episode mini-series [ABC-TV 1999] Hosted by Peter Jennings; chapter titles are: (1) The Beginning: Seeds of Change; (2) 1914-1919: Shell Shock; (3) 1920-1929: Boom To Bust; (4) 1929-1936: Stormy Weather; (5) 1936-1941: Over The Edge; (6) 1941-1945: Civilians At War; (7) 1941-1945: Homefront; (8) 1946-1952: Best Years; (9) 1953-1960: Happy Days; (10) 1960-1964: Poisoned Dreams; (11) 1964-1970: Unpinned; (12) 1971-1975: Approaching The Apocalypse; (13) 1976-1980: Starting Over; (14) 1981-1989: A New World; and (15) The 90's and Beyond: Then and Now ABC News Presents color VHS set [3/99] 6 tapes for $79.50 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
	"A Short History of The U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times To The Twenty-First Century" [1999] by Paul Le Blanc Humanity Books 9x6 pb [7/99] for $24.00 Humanity Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/99] for $52.00
	"A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present" [1999] by Howard Zinn Perennial Classics 8x5¼ pb [4/2003] for $13.26 HarperCollins 9½x6½ hardcover [rev 2/2003] for $24.45 "A People's History of the United States CD: Highlights From The 20th Century", narrated by Matt Damon HarperAudio audio CD [2/2003] 6 disks for $20.37 HarperAudio ABR audio [12/99] for $17.65
	"From The Folks Who Brought You The Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor In The United States" [2001] by Priscilla Murolo & A. B. Chitty; illustrations by Joe Sacco "[an] extraordinarily fine addition to U.S. history and labor literature" New Press 9.4x6¼ pb [2/2003] for $12.57 New Press hardcover [9/2001] out of print/used
	"Where America Went Wrong: and How To Regain Her Democratic Ideals" [2004] by John R. Talbott "The question for America no longer comes down to Democrats vs. Republicans nor liberals vs. conservatives nor free market libertarians vs. anti-globalists, but rather to a simple formulation of the people vs. the elites ... Wake up! The Class War has already begun." Financial Times Press 9x6 pb [2/2009] out of print/used Financial Times Prentice Hall 9x6 hardcover [5/2004] out of print/used author's official website
	"An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power, 1607-2001" [2004] by John Steele Gordon "[a] fresh, interesting, and informative ... economic biography of our country" Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [11/2005] for $10.37 HarperCollins 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2004] for $16.98
	"A Patriot's History of The United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery To The War On Terror" [12/2004 New York Times bestseller] by Larry Schweikart & Michael Allen Fox TV talking head Schweikart and Washington State University sociologist Allen provide a mountain of right-wing half truths disguised as history; the aggressive, defensive, vitriolic & pandering tones of their assertions are contradicted by factual evidence. "There is nothing about this book that even attempts to be historically accurate or objective; it's not history, it's myth-ology based on a cherry-picked selection of historical events", with "an undercurrent of seething hatred for Marxists, leftists, liberals, and other God-hating pinko commies the world over". — DO NOT BUY THIS TRIPE
	"Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii To Iraq" [2006] by New York Times foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer Times Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [4/2006] for $16.50 Tantor Media UNABR audio CD [5/2006] for $25.19
	"America: An Illustrated History" [2007] by the Editors of Time Magazine Time Magazine 12¼x11 bargain hardcover [10/2007] for $11.98 Time Magazine 12¼x11 hardcover [10/2007] for $19.77
	"The Intellectual Devotional: American History - Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education & Converse Confidently About Our Nation's Past" [2007] by David S. Kidder & Noah D. Oppenheim Modern Times 8x5½ hardcover [10/2007] for $16.32
	"Hollywood Goes To Washington: American Politics On Screen" [2008] by Michael Coyne Reaktion Books 8¼x5½ pb [9/2008] for $19.00
	"48 Liberal Lies About American History (That You Probably Learned In School)" [9/2008] by Fox TV talking head Larry Schweikart Nothing but a load of shameful conservative bias that offers absolutely no alternative views, part of the childish mudslinging battle between the right wing and objective American history. — DO NOT BUY THIS TRIPE
	"The Progressive Revolution: How The Best In America Came To Be" [2009] by Michael Lux, co-founder of Progressive Strategies [est. 1999] "Progressives invented the American ideal and inspired the American Revolution. Conservatives, then known as Tories, opposed it. Since then, every major advancement in American freedom, democracy, social justice, and economic opportunity has been fostered, fought for, and won by progressives against conservative resistance." Wiley 9¼x6½ hardcover [1/2009] for $18.84
	"The Almanac of American Politics" Edited by Michael Barone, with Richard E. Cohen 2010 Edition: National Journal Group 8½x6 pb [9/2009] for $50.37 2010 Edition: National Journal Group 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/2009] for $48.62 2008 Edition: National Journal Group pb [8/2007] for $47.22 2008 Edition: National Journal Group hardcover [8/2007] for $78.27 official booksite
	"The Century For Young People" [2009] by Peter Jennings & Todd Brewster book entry at Wikipedia {see also 15-episode 1999 TV series above} Volume 1: "1901-1936: Becoming Modern America" [2009] Delacorte Books 8x5¼ pb [9/2009] for $9.99 Delacorte Books 8¼x5½ library hardcover [9/2009] for $12.99 Volume 2: "1936-1961: Defining America" [2009] Delacorte Books 8x5¼ pb [9/2009] for $9.99 Delacorte Books 8x5¼ library hardcover [9/2009] for $12.99 Volume 3: "1961-1999: Changing America" [2009] Delacorte Books 8x5¼ pb [9/2009] for $9.99 Delacorte Books 8½x5½ library hardcover [9/2009] for $12.99
	"Theodore Roosevelt's History of The United States: His Own Words, Selected & Arranged by Daniel Ruddy" [2010] Smithsonian 9x6¼ hardcover [5/2010] for $18.47 see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919] Page
	"Seven Events That Made America America - and Proved That The Founding Fathers Were Right All Along" [2010 bestseller] by Larry Schweikart "Overwrought right-wing screed" by Fox TV talking head Schweikart, whose "conclusions run to rabid anti-collectivist sermonizing" — DO NOT BUY THIS TRIPE
	"The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America" [2010] by Erik Sass, with Will Pearson & Mangesh Hattikudu Harper 8¼x5¾ hardcover [10/2010] for $16.49 Mental Floss Magazine official website
	"American History Goes To The Movies: Hollywood and The American Experience" [2010] by W. Bryan Rommel-Ruiz Hollywood’s renderings of America influence the way Americans see themselves and how they make sense of the world. Such popular representations of historic events alter the way that audiences understand America's history, especially the familiar narrative of the American Dream. The author uses films from many different genres, covering the Civil War, the Wild West, the life & assassination of J.F.K., and the events of 9/11. Routledge 9x6 pb [12/2010] for $29.95 Routledge 9x6 hardcover [12/2010] for $69.93
	"A Queer History of The United States" [2011] by Michael Bronski Beacon Press 9x6 hardcover [5/2011] for $18.45

Columbus & After

	"1491: New Revelations of The Americas Before Columbus" [2005 bestseller] by Charles C. Mann published outside the U.S. as "Ancient Americans" in 2005 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [10/2006] for $9.24 Knopf 9½x6 deckle-edge hardcover [8/2005] for $23.10
	"1492: The Year The World Began" [2009] by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto HarperOne 9x6 pb [11/2010] for $11.24 HarperOne 9x6¼ hardcover [11/2009] for $18.97
	"America Before Columbus" [National Geographic Channel Nov 2009] When Columbus found the Americas, millions of people were already living there, vast civiliza-tions that had built cities, farms, canals, and roads. But the endless wave of explorers, traders, and settlers brought non-native plants & animals – and lethal diseases – so that in the first 100 years of contact, entire cultures were wiped out and the landscape changed forever. Written & directed by Cristina Trebbi; featuring Victor Garber & K.J. Linhein National Geographic Home Video color DVD [3/2010] for $14.99 full credits at IMDb
	"1493: Uncovering The New World Columbus Created" [2011]   by Charles C. Mann Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2011] for $16.77
	"Columbus: The Four Voyages" [2011]   by Laurence Bergreen Viking 9¼x6 hardcover [9/2011] for $20.83

Colonial  Times
Plimoth Plantation 'living museum' [est. 1947] in Massachussets
Mayflower II replica ship [built 1957] based at Plimoth Plantation

Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia Historic District [est. 1926]

Historic Jamestowne, Virginia
official website • National Park • Wikipedia • Jamestown Settlement

	"La Salle and The Discovery of The Great West" [1869] by Francis Parkman [1823-93] French explorer René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle embarked from the Fort Wayne, Indiana area on a journey to the mouth of the Mississippi River; he arrived at the Gulf of Mexico on 9 April 1682 and claimed the entire Mississipi River Valley for King Louis of France. New American Library mass pb [1962] out of print/used Nabu Press 9¾x7½ facsimile pb [4/2010] for $29.75 BiblioLife 9¼x6 hardcover [11/2009] for $32.99
	"Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony" [1984] by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Rowman & Littlefield 8¾x5¾ pb [1/2007] for $14.28 Rowman & Littlefield 8½x5½ pb [7/91] for $16.46 Barnes & Noble hardcover [1993] out of print/used Rowman & Allanheld hardcover [7/84] out of print/used
	"The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke To James Towne - An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey" [1994] by Ivor Noël Hume the author was chief archaeologist at Colonial Williamsburg for 35 years Univ VA Press 9x6¼ pb [10/97] for $17.21 Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [9/94] out of print/many, many used
	"Colonial America On Film and Television: A Filmography" [2000] by Bertil O. Österberg McFarland & Co. 10x7 pb [5/2009] for $49.95 McFarland & Co. 10¼x7 hardcover [12/2000] for $75.00
	"Mayflower 1620: A New Look At A Pilgrim Voyage" [ages 9-12; 2003] by staff of Plimoth Plantation & National Geographic Magazine largely photographs of a voyage of the Mayflower II replica ship off the Atlantic coast of Virginia in June 2001 National Geographic Children's Books pb [9/2007] for $6.95 National Geographic Children's Books 11¼x8¾ hardcover [10/2003] for $14.00
	"The Island At The Center of The World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and The Forgotten Colony That Shaped America" [2004] by Russell Shorto Vintage 8x5 pb [4/2005] for $10.66 Doubleday 9½x6¼ hardcover [3/2004] out of print/many used
	"The Lost Colony Of Roanoke" [ages 9-12; 2004] by Jean Fritz, Illustrated by Hudson Talbott Putnam Juvenile 10¼x8¼ hardcover [5/2004] for $13.86
	"The War That Made America: The Story of The French and Indian War" [P.B.S./W.Q.E.D. Jan 2006] Co-produced, written & co-directed by Ben Loeterman & Eric Stange; hosted by Graham Greene, starring Larry Nehring, Alex Coleman, Chris Davenport, Ed Brigadier, Kevin McClatchy, Jeff Monahan, Anne Harsch & Shane Callahan P.B.S. 4-hour color DVD [2/2006] 2 disks for $29.99 Valley soundtrack CD [1/2006] for $16.98 full credits at IMDb • official movie site
	"The Jamestown Project" [2007] by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Belknap Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $19.77
	"Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America" [2007] by Peter Silver Princeton historian Silver asks how the diverse immigrants from Europe - Germans, Quakers, Dutch, Moravians, Englishmen, Spanish, and French - managed to live side by side, and his answer is that they were solidified into a single people - the 'whites' - in the 1750s by the fear of attack by the various Indian tribes. Book won the Bancroft Prize. W.W. Norton & Co. 8x5½ pb [8/2009] for $13.02 W.W. Norton & Co. 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2007] for $29.95
	"Before The Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts" [2011] by Daniel K. Richter Belknap / Harvard 9x6 hardcover [4/2011] for $23.10

http://www.amazon.com/Roanoke-Solving-Mystery-Lost-Colony/dp/0142002283/
http://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Frontier-America-Western-History/dp/0300059175/
http://www.amazon.com/Slave-Ship-Human-History/dp/0143114255/
http://www.amazon.com/Pursuits-Happiness-Development-Colonies-Formation/dp/0807842273/
http://www.amazon.com/Roanoke-Island-Beginnings-English-America/dp/0807841102/
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Devils-Empire-Colonial-Orleans/dp/0226138429/
http://www.amazon.com/1607-New-Look-at-Jamestown/dp/1426300123/
http://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Strange-Tragic-History-Roanoke/dp/0465004857/
http://www.amazon.com/Mayflower-1620-Look-Pilgrim-Voyage/dp/079226276X/
Susan Whitehurst's lavishly illustrated The Mayflower (PowerKids, 2003) is briefer

Revolutionary  Times

Declaration of Independence 4 July 1776 14"x16" art print for 17.99 from AllPosters

U.S Constitution 17 September 1787 14"x16" art print for 17.99 from AllPosters

U.S Bill of Rights approved 25 September 1789; ratified 15 December 1791 14"x16" art print for 17.99 from AllPosters

U.S. Constitution entry at Wikipedia
U.S. Constitution at National Archives website
Declaration of Independence entry at Wikipedia
Declaration of Independence at National Archives website
Bill of Rights entry at Wikipedia
Bill of Rights at National Archives website

Spirit of America's Founding Fathers Page

	"The Ideological Origins of The American Revolution: Enlarged Edition" [1967 classic] by Bernard Bailyn "a classic of American historical literature"; winner of Pulitzer & Bancroft Prizes Belknap Press 8x5½ pb [3/92] for $20.95 Belknap Press hardcover [12/67] out of print/used
	"The Creation of The American Republic, 1776-1787" [1969 classic] by Gordon S. Wood "One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution." — The New York Times Book Review Univ NC Press 9x6 pb [4/98] for $24.69 Univ NC Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/98] out of print/used
	"TIME Magazine Special Bicentennial Issue, Sept. 26, 1789" [1989] Edited by Harry Antole Grunewald TIME Magazine 11x8½ hardcover [1989] out of print/used
	"The Radicalism of the American Revolution" [1991] by Pulitzer-winner Gordon S. Wood Vintage 8x5¼ pb [3/93] for $12.21 Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [12/91] out of print/many used
	"The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, A Revolutionary War Patriot (My Name Is America Series)" [ages 9-12; 1998] by Barry Denenberg A year-long journal of a fictional 12-year-old orphan in Boston, Massachussets Colony Scholastic Inc. 7½x5¼ hardcover [9/98] out of print/dozens used
	"Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776" animated TV series [DiC Ent. 2002-2003] 40-episode color half-hour TV series intended to teach 7- to 14-year-olds about the events of the American Revolution; main characters are Ben Franklin {voice of Walter Cronkite}, British teen Sarah, French orphan Henri, teen printer's apprentice James, and adult freed slave Moses. Starring Kathleen Barr, Reo Jones, Chris Lundquist & D. Kevin Williams; celebrity voices include Annette Bening, Warren Buffett (as James Madison}, Walter Cronkite, Billy Crystal, Michael Douglas, Whoopi Goldberg, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Horse, Liam Neeson, Tom Poston, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Norman Schwarzkopf, Maria Shriver, Sylvester Stallone (as Paul Revere}, Ben Stiller & Michael York Cookie Jar / Shout! Factory color DVD set [10/2008] 6 disks for $42.49 full credits at IMDb • official series site • series entry at Wikipedia
	"1776" [2005] by David McCullough S&S 9¼x6 pb [6/2006] for $10.80 S&S hardcover [5/2005] for $21.12 S&S UNABR audio CD [5/2005] for $31.47
	"Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different" [New York Times bestseller 2006] by Pulitzer-winner Gordon S. Wood Penguin 8¼x5½ pb [5/2007] for $10.88 Penguin Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/2006] out of print/many, many used
	"Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers" [2006] by Brooke Allen Ivan R. Dee pb [10/2007] for $14.95 Ivan R. Dee 8½x6 hardcover [10/2006] for $15.72
	"The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel" [2008] by David Liss Down-on-his-luck former U.S. spy Ethan Saunders lost his true love to a successful Philadelphia businessman; when the man disappears, the wife asks Saunders to find him. Ballantine Books 8x5¼ pb [6/2009] for $10.80 Random House deckle-edge hardcover [9/2008] for $17.16 Whiskey Rebellion [1791-94] entry at Wikipedia Bank Panic of 1792 entry at Wikipedia
	"Why The Constitution Matters" [2010] by Mark Tushnet {law professor at Harvard University} Yale Univ Press 7¾x5½ pb [5/2010] for $16.50
	"The Idea of America: Reflections On The Birth of The United States" [2011] by Pulitzer-winner Gordon S. Wood Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2011] for $17.82

Manifest  Destiny

	"The Incredible War of 1812: A Military History" [1965] by J. Mackay Hitsman, updated by Donald E. Graves "The finest one-volume history of the War of 1812 ever published." Robin Brass Studio 9x6 pb [9/2000] for $16.88
	"American Politics In The Gilded Age, 1868-1900" [1997] by Robert W. Cherny Harlan Davidson 8x5½ pb [6/97] for $19.95
	"Death In The Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, The First Labor Movement & The Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America" [2006] by James Green Anchor 7¾x5¼ pb [3/2007] for $10.85 Pantheon 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2006] for $18.60
	"1812: War With America" [2007] by Jon Latimer Belknap Press 15½x9¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $23.10
	"What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848" [2007] by Daniel Walker Howe book won Pulitzer Prize for History Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [9/2009] for $12.14 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¾ hardcover [10/2007] for $23.10
	"1812: The Navy's War" [2011]   by George C. Daughan Basic Books 9½x6 hardcover [10/2011] for $21.45

Early  XXth  Century

War Film Festival - World War II Pages at Magic Lantern
Spirit of America Bookstore's World War II Internment Camps Page
Spirit of America Bookstore's Atomic U.S.A. Page

Spirit of America's 'Great Depression' [1929-39] Page  

	"The Great Crash: 1929" [1954 classic] by John Kenneth Galbraith Mariner Books 8¼x5½ pb [4/97] for $11.20 Houghton Mifflin mass pb [1/61] out of print/many used book entry at Wikipedia John Kenneth Galbraith [1908-2006] Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
	"The Campaign of The Century: Upton Sinclair's {E.P.I.C.} Race For Governor of California and The Birth of Media Politics" [1992] by Greg Mitchell, {new} Foreword by Peter Schrag Polipoint Press 9x6 pb [10/2010] for $18.21 Random House mass pb [11/93] out of print/used Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [4/92] out of print/many used Spirit of America Bookstore's Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] Page
	"The New Deal: Hope For The Nation" [1997] by Cheryl Edwards Tandem Library 7½x5¼ econoclad [10/2001] for $15.25 Discovery Enterprises 7½x5¾ pb [3/97] out of printy/used
	"The Hungry Years: America In An Age of Crisis, 1929-1939" [1999] by T.H. Watkins "Maybe the best book ever written about the worst of times in America." — Smithsonian Magazine Owl Books 8¼x5½ pb [9/2000] for $13.26 Henry Holt hardcover[10/99] out of print/many used
	"Essays On The Great Depression" [2000] by Ben S. Bernanke Princeton Univ Press 9x6 pb [1/2004] for $21.56 Princeton Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2000] out of print/used
	"The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl" [2005] by Timothy Egan Mariner Books 8¼x5½ pb [9/2006] for $10.17 Houghton Mifflin 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/2005] for $18.48
	”The Forgotten Man: A New History of The Great Depression” [2007] by Amity Shlaes ”a skeptical critique of the New Deal”, but a thorough history nonetheless HarperCollins 9x6 hardcover [6/2007] for $16.17
	"Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders & The Judgment of Mankind" [2007] by Bruce Watson Viking 8¾x6 hardcover [8/2007] for $17.13
	"Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre & Class War In The American West" [2007] by Scott Martelle Rutgers Univ Press pb [8/2007] for $17.13
	"The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought The Harding White House and Tried To Steal The Country" [2008] by Laton McCartney Random House Trade 8x5¼ pb [1/2009] for $10.88 Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2008] for $17.82 Blackstone Audio CD-ROM [2/2008] for $22.76
	"The New Deal: A 75th Anniversary Celebration" [2008] by Kathryn A. Flynn, with Richard Polese Gibbs Smith, Publr 10x9 pb [5/2008] for $19.00
	"Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World" [2009] by Liaquat Ahamed listed Best of 2009 by Time Magazine & won the Pulitzer Prize for History Penguin 8½x5½ pb [12/2009] for $9.79 Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2009] for $21.75
	"Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, 1919-1933" [2010] by Daniel Okrent Scribner 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2010] for $17.55

Latter  XXth  Century

The Beat Generation Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
Spirit of America Bookstore's Sen. Joe McCarthy Page
Hollywood Blacklist Pages at Magic Lantern

	"All The President's Men" [1974 bestseller] by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward Pocket mass pb [6/2005] for $7.99 S&S 8½x5½ pb [6/94] for $11.20 Warner pb [1/75] out of print/used S&S hardcover [6/74] out of print/many used Recorded Books audio CD [3/2004] for $23.09 Woodward-Bernstein Watergate papers at UTexas/Austin
	"All The President's Men" feature film [Warner/Wildwood April 1976] Directed by Alan J. Pakula; screenplay by William Goldman from the bestselling book; starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards & Jane Alexander; won Oscars for Best Script, Best Supporting Actor [JR], Best Sound, Best Art Direction, Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress [JA], Best Editing; WGA Award for Best Script; added to National Film Registry (2010) Warner special edition DVD [2/2006] 2 disks for $17.49 Warner widescreen DVD [10/97] for $14.99 Warner color VHS [3/2003] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb
	"The Wise Men: Six Friends & The World They Made" [1986] by Walter Isaacson & Evan Thomas Dean Acheson, Charles E. Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, George Kennan, Robert Lovett & John J. McCloy – all friends and also advisors to presidents from F.D.R. to L.B.J. – were the hidden architects behind the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and Cold War containment. S&S 9x6 pb [6/97] for $14.96 S&S hardcover [10/86] out of print/used
	"The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon" [1990] by Stanley I. Kutler recommended by Watergate figure John W. Dean W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [5/92] for $11.53 Knopf 9¼x6¾ hardcover [5/90] out of print/used
	"Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics & The Fall of Richard Nixon" [1994] by Fred Emery Touchstone 9x6¼ pb [9/95] for $25.95 Crown 9½x6½ hardcover [6/94] out of print/used
	"The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat" [2005] by Bob Woodward, with Carl Bernstein S&S hardcover [7/2005] for $15.64
	"Pivotal Decade: How The United States Traded Factories For Finance In The Seventies" [2010] by Judith Stein Yale Univ Press 9x5¾ pb [9/2011] for $25.00 Yale Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/2010] out of print/used
	"Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and The Last Days of The Working Class" [2010] by Jefferson Cowie The New Press pb [1/2012] for $16.36 The New Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2010] for $18.45

XXIst  Century

Spirit of America Bookstore's TreasonGate Timeline Page

	"The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation" [2006] by Sid Jacobson & Ernie Colon Hill & Wang 9x5½ pb [8/2006] for $11.53 Hill & Wang 9x6 hardcover [8/2006] for $19.80
	"Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up To The Facts - An In-Depth Investigation By Popular Mechanics" [2006] Edited by David Dunbar & Brad Reagan, Foreword by Sen. John McCain Hearst 8¼x5½ pb [8/2006] for $7.63
	"Fair Game: My Life As A Spy, My Betrayal By The White House" [2007] by Valerie Plame Wilson Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster [10/2007] for $7.99 S&S 8½x5½ pb [6/2008] for $10.20 S&S 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2007] out of print/hundreds used S&S ABR audio CD [10/2007] out of prodn/many used official book site lots more details on Spirit of America Bookstore's TreasonGate Timeline Page
	"The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and The Battle Over American History" [2010] by Jill Lepore Princeton Univ Press 8½x5½ hardcover [10/2010] for $13.57
	"Hawk of Pandora: A 9/11 Missing Link" [2010] by Thomas 'Hawk' Hellstrom In December 200, author Hellstrom sent a 15-page fax to the F.B.I.'s Atlanta field office describing a Chechen-AlQaeda terrorist conspiracy based in Atlanta, Georgia; author claims that subsequent events constitute a cover-up by the Bush Administration. LTT Independent Publng 9x6 pb [11/2010] for $12.57

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