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  • The Unlikely War Hero

    A Vietnam War POW's Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton

    de Marc Leepson ...
    “What a strange, fascinating, and ultimately powerful account of one man's endurance of life as a POW during the American war in Vietnam. . . . This book, I believe, will stand the test of time as one of the finest nonfiction narratives to emerge from the Vietnam War.” —Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They CarriedOn April 6, 1967, twenty-year-old U.S. Navy Seaman Apprentice Doug Hegdahl fell off ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Vietnam War

    An Interactive Modern History Adventure

    de Michael Burgan, Marc Leepson ...
    Series series You Choose: Modern History
    It’s the 1960s, and the Vietnam War is raging. You find yourself in the midst of the turmoil. Will you: Enlist in the Marines and volunteer to go to war? Join your fellow young Americans eager to protest the war? Be a young Vietnamese man forced to choose between the communist North and the capitalist South? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Flag

    An American Biography

    de Marc Leepson ...
    "The curious history of Old Glory and the special veneration it often evokes" comes alive in this comprehensive volume—preface by Nelson DeMille ( Kirkus Reviews).The thirteen-stripe, fifty-star flag is a quintessential American icon. It stirs something in the hearts of Americans like no other symbol. Yet the flag's history is cloaked in myth and misinformation. In Flag, historian Marc Leepson ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Saving Monticello

    The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built

    de Marc Leepson ...
    The complete history of Thomas Jefferson's iconic American home, Monticello, and how it was not only saved after Jefferson's death, but ultimately made into a National Historic Landmark.When Thomas Jefferson died on the Fourth of July 1826, he was more than $100,000 in debt. Forced to sell thousands of acres of his lands and nearly all of his furniture and artwork, in 1831 his heirs bid a final ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • What So Proudly We Hailed

    Francis Scott Key, A Life

    de Marc Leepson ...
    "An interesting snapshot of one of the best-known—and least-known—figures in American history," the author of the U.S. national anthem ( Washington Post )."As Marc Leepson shows us, there is a lot to know about Francis Scott Key—much of it surprising, and all of it engrossing. A wonderful and long-overdue biography, and worth the wait." —Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times <strong... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Lafayette

    Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General

    de Marc Leepson ...
    Assessing the legendary Frenchman and his remarkable military career on both sides of the AtlanticThe Marquis de Lafayette is an icon of both American and French history. In Marc Leepson’s concise and engaging biography of this captivating figure, we learn how Lafayette, born into an aristocratic French family of warriors, traveled to the colonies at the age of nineteen to fight as a volunteer in ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Desperate Engagement

    How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History

    de Marc Leepson ...
    This Civil War history offers a "sharp assessment of the single Confederate victory north of the Mason-Dixon line"—and the threat it posed to the capitol ( Kirkus ).The Battle of Monocacy is one of the Civil War's most significant yet little-known battles. On July 9, 1864, in the fields just south of Frederick, Maryland, some 12,000 Confederate troops led by the controversial Jubal Anderson Early ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Ballad of the Green Beret

    The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and Pop Stardom to Murder and an Unsolved, Violent Death

    de Marc Leepson ...
    The rough-and-tumble life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry SadlerThe top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn’t “Paint It Black” or “Yellow Submarine”--it was “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam vet Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. But Sadler’s clean-cut, all-American image hid a darker side, a Hunter Thompson-esque ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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    Ballad of the Green Beret

    The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and Pop Stardom to Murder and an Unsolved, Violent Death

    de Marc Leepson ...
    Narrado por David de Vries ...

    Completo

    8 hora 25 minutos

    The top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn't The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black" or the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine"—it was "The Ballad of the Green Berets," a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam veteran, US Army Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. But Sadler's clean-cut, all-American image hid a darker side, a Hunter Thompson-esque life of booze, girls, and guns. ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • The Pursuit of Happiness

    How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America

    de Jeffrey Rosen ...
    A New York Times bestseller and an “enriching…brilliant” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass) examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy.The Declaration of Independence identified “the pursuit of happiness” as one of our unalienable rights, ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Seceding from Secession

    The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia

    de Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus, Penny L. Barrick ...
    A "thoroughly researched [and] historically enlightening" account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia split in two in the midst of war ( Civil War News)."West Virginia was the child of the storm." —Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran Maj. Theodore F. LangAs the Civil War raged, the northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union's 35th state. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • American Struggle

    Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology

    de Jon Meacham ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Soul of America unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates and divisions from 1619 to the present, with his signature commentary on the consequential speeches, letters, and essays that led us to this moment.“Jon Meacham has done it again. If there is a soul in American history, it emerges—indeed, explodes ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro