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New York, NY: Signet, 1981. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. He fought a savage enemy in the French and Indian War-and fathered a fighting American clan. The spellinding family chronicle about the birth of our nation. The first of a series of novels that follows an American family through the wars of the nation's history. Stirring action and adventure, rich romance and vivid authenticity make Americans at War a spellbinding recreation of America's past. 374 pages. Some light rubbing on bottom & edges of spine and some places on outside edges. Spine is creased..
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The Bloodborn Americans at War Series Book 1
by Leckie, Robert
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The Fifty States (Facts America Ser.)
by Mead, Robin; Mead, Polly; Lewis, Gary A
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated, 1992. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrated with Maps and Color Photography. Discusses the geography, cities, agriculture, and people that make up the fifty states. Arranged region-by-region.captures the essence of America with color photographs and illustrationis of natural wonders, great cities, wildlife, historic landmarks, and people. Timelines and fact boxes give information about each state, as well as climate, population, state bird, state flower, and capital. 64 pages..
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The Last of the Mohicans
by Cooper, James Fenimore
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New York, NY: Airmont Publishing Co. 1962. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Complete and Unabridged. It is 1757. The English and French are engaged in a savage, bloody war for control of the North American continent. Making tenuous, shifting alliances with various Indian tribes, the two European powers struggle to gain the upper hand on unfamiliar, forested battlegrounds. Caught in the middle is Hawkeye, a white scout who was raised among the Indians. Not fully belonging to either world, Hawkeye has learned to respect the best of both civilizations. But with war swirling around him, Hawkeye must finally struggle to save his own life and those of a small band of colonists. Fighting by his side are Hawkeyes Mohican friends, Chingachgook and the young Uncas. The three risk their lives to save a British commanders daughters the dark-haired, courageous Cora and the fair, fragile Alice. Their chief adversary is the renegade Huron…
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A Little Commonwealth : Family Life in Plymouth Colony
by Demos, John Putnam
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1971. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The year 2000 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of A Little Commonwealth by Bancroft Prize-winning scholar John Demos. This groundbreaking study examines the family in the context of the colony founded by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Basing his work on physical artifacts, wills, estate inventories, and a variety of legal and official enactments, Demos portrays the family as a structure of roles and relationships, emphasizing those of husband and wife, parent and child, and master and servant. The book's most startling insights come from a reconsideration of commonly-held views of American Puritans and of the ways in which they dealt with one another. Demos concludes that Puritan "repression" was not as strongly directed against sexuality as against the expression of hostile and aggressive impulses, and he shows how…
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Mason and Dixon
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, 1997. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatch'd pair one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason. 773 pages..
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The Oppenheimer Hearing
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New York, NY: Stein & Day, 1971. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Historic trials series. 336 pages. Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer directed the building of the atom bomb and soon after became the US government's top adviser on nuclear policy. Yet in 1953, he was suspended as a security risk by President Eisenhower, being charged with close association with the communists and obstructing the development of the hydrogen bomb. In examining the case and its background, Atom Bomb Advisor's investigation, Illustrated with numerous b/w photos. Dust jacket has 3 of the 4 outside corner tips, top of spine and top edge of front cover slightly rubbed..
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