 | 1776 by David McCullough
Buy new: $21.77 / Used from: $0.28 McCullough has given me an appreciation for my own history--at long last.
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 | John Adams by David McCullough
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $1.00 McCullough is masterful.
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 | Truman by David McCullough
Buy new: $15.84 / Used from: $2.81 Wonderful--McCullough brings Truman to life and gives him his due.
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 | Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Perennial Classics) by Paul M. Johnson
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $6.80 If only everyone could teach history like this!
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 | Intellectuals by Paul M. Johnson
Buy used from: $0.70 This book certainly puts its subjects in a new light.
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 | A History of the American People by Paul M. Johnson
Buy new: $14.69 / Used from: $3.31 It was Paul Johnson, an Englishman, who began my love for my own history as an American.
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 | Rites of Spring : The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.90 I love the depth and breadth of this study.
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 | Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by Deborah E. Lipstadt
Buy new: $12.75 / Used from: $0.47 Excellent book that goes far beyond the issue of Holocaust denying. Lipstadt shows what's really at stake when we allow non-truths to be placed as equals beside truths.
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 | Fight for Freedom: The American Revolutionary War by Benson Bobrick
Buy new: $16.52 / Used from: $3.93 Now I am making certain that my children learn American history. Terrific book--both text and illustrations.
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 | Fields of Fury: The American Civil War by James M. McPherson
Buy new: $17.90 / Used from: $3.07 Another excellent book for children--but also for adults!
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 | The Good Fight : How World War II Was Won by Stephen E. Ambrose
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $7.10 A wonderul book by a master. Those who criticize its American perspective ought to check out Ambrose's purpose in writing the book.
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 | Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $0.01 This book will make you cry and cheer.
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 | The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War by Sir Martin Gilbert
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $1.70 Gilbert is not only a good historian, but he is also a good writer.
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 | The Second World War: A Complete History by Sir Martin Gilbert
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $9.77 Thorough and readable.
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 | The First World War, Second Edition: A Complete History by Sir Martin Gilbert
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $5.44 Excellent--gives detail but is very readable.
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 | A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $3.35 Everyone should read this, especially those who yearn for the "good old days" and think that our age is the only age that has faced calamity and uncertainty.
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 | The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.90 Great introduction to the First World War.
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 | The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $3.64 This book does a great job of presenting an overview of the years leading up to the First World War.
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 | The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945 (Studies in Jewish History) by Leni Yahil
Buy new: $22.55 / Used from: $2.13 This is an excellent work, but may be more than some want. Still, it is worth the read since Yahil looks at some of the larger issues of the Holocaust, such as why the Jews did not save themselves.
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