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Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spellbinding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two... more

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  The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

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  • glowing
  • No spoilers. I am a voracious reader, with many years of reading behind me. This is one of the 5 best books I've read. It was in my top ten tentatively by page 40 or so. If the first 20 pages...
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  • I couldn't get into it but am determined to try again.
  • First Sentence: The date was April 14, 1912, a sinister day in maritime history, but of course, the man in suite 63-65, shelter deck C, did not yet know it.
    
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  • Eerie moments in time
  • A bit plodding and filler, but all in all a decent read. Amazing story about the dark secrets within human nature and its close proximity to the naive. Be careful around those who seem properly...
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Jon Krakauer?s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now... more

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  Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

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  • RIP Brenda and Erica
  • Jon K says is took 3 years to research this book and 1
    year to write it. This is a good book but I found it a little
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  • Oversimplification, which haunts many journalistic formats, has no place in a book
  • If you don't like Mormons you'll enjoy the book, but if you want to understand them, look elsewhere. As a religious studies major I was dissapointed, expecting a frank impartial look at Mormons...
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  • Great story telling, lousy history.
  • First of all, I enjoyed reading this book. It was an easy read and I had trouble putting it down which to me is the signs of a good author. The problem I had was the history of Mormonism was quite...
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Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of... more

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  Fast Food Nation

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  • Informative!
  • Fast Food Nation is a very eye opening and informative book. Schlosser examines all sides of the fast food industry. It is a definitely a must read for anyone who lives in America.
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  • McDonalds is healther than Subway!
  • This is outrageous propaganda! I am truly disgusted at how much they insult McDonalds. McDonalds is healthy for you! With every meal at McD's you get vegetables, grains, meat, and the optional...
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  • Food for thought
  • Schlosser attempts to explain the food industry: its origins, its workers, the supply of meat and potatoes and how these all have changed over the years. While I had already heard about the food...
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From the most eloquent of American presidents, nearly 400 astute observations on subjects ranging from women to... more

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  The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations (Thrift Edition)

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  • Lotta Wisdom in Little Book
  • It's tough to sum up Lincoln's "wit and wisdom" in a single volume, but this little book takes a valiant stab at it. Personally, I found it a nice work to accompany a more substantial biography or...
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  • Big Man, Little Book
  • I was completely disappointed in the size of this book. The city guide of Possum Trot, Kentucky has to be bigger then this. Measuring in at a hefty 3&1/2" tall, its no Abe Lincoln. It was more like...
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of... more

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  Path Between The Seas : The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

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  • Very thorough, a full historical account of the canal
  • I became interested in the canal after watching a program on History Channel. This book did not disappoint. It covered the full gamut, from the earliest efforts by the French to the final...
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  • Boring
  • Very factual but exteeeeeeeeemly boring and wordy. I read it before going through the cannal and it helped me greatly to enjoy the trip, but it could be 1/4 the size and still do the job.
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  • Good Narrative
  • A story like this one is invariably told along two narrative lines: technology and political economy. The first is the how what when where, the second is who and why. That's an...
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"MY FAVORITE HISTORICAL NOVEL . . . A superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its... more

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  The Killer Angels

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  • Best Historical Novel Ever!!
  • We just completed a visit to Gettysburg. This novel brought all the action together for us. It was written with a sense of the participants' personal persceptive so it wasn't a dry, unimaginative...
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  • War is a scary and sometimes boring...
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  • THE KILLER ANGELS by Michael Shaara
  • The Killer Angels is Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, which was the turning point in the Civil War.
    
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In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George... more

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  1776

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  • Interesting Historical Read
  • The title is perfect because the author really stays focused on the events in the colonies and England in 1776. It is a good way to catch up if your early American history has slipped a little. I...
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  • excellent-leaves you wanting a 1777, 1778, 1779
  • Content-Excellent
    Presentation-Excellent
    
    A lot of military history, which I usually don't get in to, but which worked for me this time.
    
    I enjoyed the biographical...
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  • never received item
  • I ordered the book 1776 over 6 weeks ago and never received it. My child needs this book for a class beginning in January and I fully do not expect her to have it.
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Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981.??Was it murder or... more

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  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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  • midnight in garden
  • I bought this as a gift for my dear friend in Michigan. She would buy the book in paperbook, read it, then give it to a friend that wanted to read it. She did this several times so I wanted to give...
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  • Somewhat hard to follow
  • While I enjoyed reading "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," I had a hard time trying to keep track of all of the characters. While the number of characters add to the story, I found myself...
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  • Questionable Credibility Makes for Problamatic Enjoyment
  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: a Savannah Story, is a "nonfiction novel" which tells of the transplanted author's 8 years in society Savannah through vignettes of the people he met and...
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Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award? winning In the Heart of... more

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  Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

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  • Kindle edition needs work
  • NOTE: DON'T BUY THE KINDLE VERSION UNLESS YOU WANT TO GO W/OUT THE MAPS.
    
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  • LIKE WILLIAM MANCHESTER
  • This exceptional book goes beyond the tired myths of the Mayflower and the Plymouth colony and delivers insight in the same rich manner as history books authored by William Manchester....
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  • 1/2 Mayflower 1/2 King Phillip
  • As I read this book, I became startled when I noticed the key Pilgrims started dying off around page 150 or so. Brewster, Bradford, Standish... all wiped out to make room for King Phillip... who is...
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The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was... more

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  In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

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  • Fascinating!
  • As a summer resident of Nantucket and an avid Philbrick reader this book in my mind is his best. The rich detail of the whaleship Essex, the tragedy bestowed upon them and the gripping tale of...
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  • Philbrick does great research
  • The detail of this book is wonderful. I started off reading this with little sympathy for the Quakers, by the end of the book my feelings had changed a little bit. Good information about all...
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  • Boring
  • Personally I thought this book was dried out and boring. I had to read this book for my English class and I did not enjoy it. It seemed like it took 50 pages to tell about how the character was...
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In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing... more

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  Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

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  • Great Concept, Needs Editing and Focus
  • This book is like a four hour movie. After the third hour you start wondering when it will end and what could have been cut.
    The characters (and there are many, many characters) are mostly...
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  • Rough start, but worth it
  • This was an amazing story of real lives. Most of it is discouraging to read, but it demonstrates how difficult it is for someone to pull themselves out of poverty. It truly takes a person of...
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  • Some of this may have been embellished
  • I've read some chapters in this book and I felt that some of the incidents and interviews with the people seemed out-of-sync with the harsh reality and the brutal conditions that the book was...
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  The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Constitution (Politically Incorrect Guides)

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  • Look what they have done to us.
  • This is a very informative book. It is shocking to see how much has been done right from the beginning to destroy the underpinnings of this country. Everyone should read this and immediately start...
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  • Good in the areas it addresses but too narrow in scope
  • The areas that this book covers are generally covered well; however, I was hoping for a book that was broader in scope. It really ought to be called "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Judicial...
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  • A Lot on What is Wrong. Very Little (if any) on Solutions
  • I got this book due to reading another book in the series and I was disappointed. It does have a good background on the Constitution and how it has been corrupted, but no real solutions on how to...
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compelling and influential documents: Monroe Doctrine, U.S. Constitution, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg... more

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  The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History 1775-1865 (Dover...

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  • everyone should get and read this book
  • I feel that everyone in this country should get and read this book so that when you want to understand why this country is important you will understand and believe.
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  • The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History 1775-1865 (Dover Thrift Editions)
  • I never received this book. I'm hoping it was overlooked and will be sent soon.
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  • Incomplete
  • While having the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in one binding is convenient enough, it's what's omitted from this book--given the title--that is glaring and puzzling. Just one...
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In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey... more

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  Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)

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  • Excellent for history buffs
  • My rating is for history buffs and history majors. For others, I would give it three starts.
    
    Alex gives you a lot of perpective and appreciation for this country and its origins. The...
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  • DEMOCRACY WHERE?
  • In America? In 1831? Which part of America EXACTLY did this man visit? Which "Americans" did he talk to? Did he talk to blacks? Did he talk to sharecroppers? Did he talk to the industrial fodder...
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  • Oops
  • 935 page book with no index.
    
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    was just about here...
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  Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

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  • Annette Lareau's descriptively rich, nonjudgmental, and brutally honest portrayal of family life through nine detailed case studies reveals tangible differences in child rearing strategies and...
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  • Decent
  • It's a decent book. The author had some valid points. She also had some points that I didn't agree with, but that's how it goes. It is a book worth reading.
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Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of Native American philosophy and... more

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  The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living

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  • a good look into the soul of Lakota
  • A most readable and enjoyable little book which gives great insight into the spirit of the Lakota people. Instead of trying to make the Lakota into white people, white people should have paid more...
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  The Partly Cloudy Patriot

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  • A Little Disappointed
  • I have to admit that I was pretty disappointed. I love Sarah Vowell, but this wasn't her best. Still, it was better than some other commentaries out there, but just not as witty (but always just as...
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  • Random essays of varying quality
  • I first learned who Sarah Vowell is, not from her books or from her appearances on NPR, but from a short film about her and one of her books that was on the DVD of "The Incredibles." That film...
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  • great read, engaging
  • I enjoyed Sarah Vowell's writing style, she portrays her odd interest in our history as normal and amusing, making you think twice about how you originally percieved history.
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  The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony...

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  • We owe Nederlanders!
  • This an interesting book on the colony of New Amsterdam which, according the author, lay the foundations for what the city of New York became. The bare facts of New Amsterdam are more than...
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  • Not There Yet.
  • This could have been a 5 star book about a rarely mentioned topic. The author put together a concise work into the history of the growth from New Amsterdam to New York. He chronicles the era of the...
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  • a huge analytical flaw that undermines the rest
  • This is a well-written and seemingly well-researched book that has at the center of its thesis the idea that the Dutch brought religious tolerance to America. Yet amazingly Shorto nowhere mentions...
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  Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

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  • Minor historical event not taught in schools
  • Absolutely fascinating book. It did take me some time to get into the story but once I did, I couldn't put it down. I do read a lot of historical books, don't let the fact that you haven't heard of...
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  • gruesome tale
  • I can't believe this is all true, one of the most gruesome books I ever picked up. Could not finish it, it was too depressing.
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  • Barbarism, cruelty and sand, lots of sand.
  • This is an extraordinarily depressing, horrific account of severe hardship suffered by a few American seamen shipwrecked on the Western African coast in 1815, and subsequently enslaved by an Arab...
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  The Great Crash 1929

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  • The tipping point for me
  • I read this book in 1979, during the Jimmy Carter years. I was looking for explanations not only of the Great Depression but also what was happening at that time.
    
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  • The Great Crash 1929
  • I wish that I had purchased another book. This is not a good book at all
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  • Black Tuesday ..
  • Is interesting to know more about one of the most dramatic events in the history of financial markets. If you really want to know what really speculation is, you have to read this book, because...
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