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  • First Ladies

    Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women

    A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historiansC-SPAN's yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image, featured interviews with more than fifty preeminent historians and biographers. In this informative book, these experts paint intimate portraits of all forty-five first ladies -- their lives, ambitions, and ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Sundays at Eight

    25 Years of Stories from C-SPAN'S Q&A and Booknotes

    de Brian Lamb, C-SPAN ...
    For the last 25 years, Sunday nights at 8pm on C-SPAN has been appointment television for many Americans. During that time, host Brian Lamb has invited people to his Capitol Hill studio for hour-long conversations about contemporary society and history. In today's soundbite culture that hour remains one of television's last vestiges of in-depth, civil conversation.First came C-SPAN's Booknotes in ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Supreme Court

    A C-SPAN Book Featuring the Justices in their Own Words

    de C-SPAN ...
    The Supreme Court grew out of a unique opportunity to interview all nine sitting Supreme Court Justices plus retired Justice O'Connor for a documentary on the Supreme Court. Through Brian Lamb and Susan Swain's interviews with our country's most influential judges, the book offers portraits of the Justices that introduces readers to the closed world of the Supreme Court, and what's it's really ... Leer más

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  • Abraham Lincoln

    Great American Historians on Our Sixteenth President

    Edición de Brian Lamb, Susan Swain, C-SPAN ...
    In this beautifully designed volume, America's top Lincoln historians offer a diverse array of perspectives on the life and legacy of America's sixteenth president. Spanning Lincoln's life -- from his early career as a Springfield lawyer, to his presidential reign during one of America's most troubled historical periods, to his assassination in 1865 -- these essays, developed from original C-SPAN ... Leer más

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  • Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?

    A Tour of Presidential Gravesites

    de Brian Lamb, C-SPAN ...
    Some presidents have been larger than life but none of them have been larger than death. Brian Lamb has visited the gravesites of every American president, living and dead, in order to put together this book, with assistance from the staff of C-SPAN. Heavily illustrated and with contributions from historians Richard Norton Smith and Douglas Brinkley, Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? is about the ... Leer más

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    The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick

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  • The Scandalous Hamiltons

    A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism

    de Bill Shaffer ...
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  • Do Not Disclose

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  • What They Didn't Burn

    Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets

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  • The Address Book

    What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

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  • Plantagenet Princesses

    The Daughters of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

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