The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
8 best books like The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (Don E. Fehrenbacher): Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, The Crater, Soul Catcher, Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
| Author | Dee Brown |
| ISBN | 0805066691 |
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down."
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account...
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
| Author | Edmund Morris |
| ISBN | 0375756787 |
'Colonel Roosevelt,' which takes its title from Roosevelt's favourite way of being addressed during his emeritus years, follows the African Journey with Mr. Morris's characteristic care. He uses primary sources, sometimes even rough drafts of letters and documents, and goes well beyond Roosevelt's...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
| Author | Robert A. Caro |
| ISBN | 0525656340 |
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books
For the first time in his long career, Robert...
| Author | David M. Potter |
| ISBN | 0061319295 |
“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History
“The magnum opus of a great American historian.” —Newsweek
Now in a new edition for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, David...
| Author | Leon F. Litwack |
| ISBN | 0394743989 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil...
'The best account I have ever read of this 'saddest affair' is Richard Slotkin's novel. And The Crater is more than a battle narrative - superb though it is in that respect. It is good social history... Its republication offers a new generation of readers more than a vivid story - it will give them new insight...
| Author | Michael C. White |
| ISBN | 0061340723 |
Augustus Cain is a damaged man haunted by a terrible skill: the ability to track people who don't want to be found. Rosetta is a runaway slave who bears the scars, inside and out, of a life of servitude to a cruel and unforgiving master. Her flight is fueled by a passion and determination only a mother could...
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History
| Author | Brian Kilmeade |
| ISBN | 1591848067 |
From the authors of the
New York Times
bestseller
George Washington’s Secret Six
, the little-known story of Thomas Jefferson’s battle to defend America against Islamic pirates.
Brian Kilmeade – cohost of “Fox & Friends” on Fox News and the national radio...
