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  • The Unlikely War Hero

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Lafayette

    Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Desperate Engagement

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Saving Monticello

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • What So Proudly We Hailed

    Francis Scott Key, A Life

    par 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... ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Flag

    An American Biography

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • 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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Vietnam War

    An Interactive Modern History Adventure

    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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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

    par Marc Leepson ...
    Lu par David de Vries ...

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    8 heure 25 min

    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. ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

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

    par Jeffrey Rosen ...
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    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, ... En savoir plus

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  • Seceding from Secession

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

    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. ... En savoir plus

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  • American Struggle

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

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    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 ... En savoir plus

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