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Intrepid: The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship Review

Intrepid: The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship Overview

In the annals of military history, a certain breed of warrior stands out above all others. These are warriors who, as if guided by destiny, gravitate to the center of the great clashes of their time. Such a warrior was the 27,000 ton aircraft carrier, USS Intrepid.

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FOUNDING MOTHERS UBR CD: FOUNDING MOTHERS UBR CD Review

FOUNDING MOTHERS UBR CD: FOUNDING MOTHERS UBR CD Overview

Cokie Roberts's #1 New York Times bestseller We Are Our Mothers Daughters examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history. Now Cokie returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate look at the passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families and country proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it.

Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Eliza Pinckney, Mary Bartlett and Martha Washington -- proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might have never survived.

Social history at its best, Founding Mothers unveils the determination, creative insight and passion of the other patriots, the women who raised our nation. Cokie Roberts proves beyond doubt that like every generation of American women that has followed, the founding mothers used the unique gifts of their gender -- courage, pluck, sadness, joy, energy, grace, sensitivity and humor -- to do what women do best, put one foot in front of the other in remarkable circumstances, and carry on.

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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Review

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Overview

Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson�s election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad. To tell the saga of Jackson�s presidency, acclaimed author Jon Meacham goes inside the Jackson White House. Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers, he details the human drama�the family, the women, and the inner circle of advisers�that shaped Jackson�s private world through years of storm and victory.

One of our most significant yet dimly recalled presidents, Jackson was a battle-hardened warrior, the founder of the Democratic Party, and the architect of the presidency as we know it. His story is one of violence, sex, courage, and tragedy. With his powerful persona, his evident bravery, and his mystical connection to the people, Jackson moved the White House from the periphery of government to the center of national action, articulating a vision of change that challenged entrenched interests to heed the popular will�or face his formidable wrath. The greatest of the presidents who have followed Jackson in the White House�from Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to FDR to Truman�have found inspiration in his example, and virtue in his vision.

Jackson was the most contradictory of men. The architect of the removal of Indians from their native lands, he was warmly sentimental and risked everything to give more power to ordinary citizens. He was, in short, a lot like his country: alternately kind and vicious, brilliant and blind; and a man who fought a lifelong war to keep the republic safe�no matter what it took.

Jon Meacham in American Lion has delivered the definitive human portrait of a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidency�and America itself.


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The book that heralded a movement, now available in audio form. Life begins at fifty! And the women of the Red Hat Society are proud of it. Inspired by the Jenny Joseph poem that begins:'When I am an old woman I shall wear purple / With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me,': Sue Ellen Cooper bought herself a red hat. Soon it became her signature gift for friends turning 50. In 2000, Cooper and her friends formed The Red Hat Society, whose only rule is no rules-it's simply a play group encouraging women over 50 to have fun, support each other, and find kindred spirits. THE RED HAT SOCIETY is their official audiobook, covering marriage, children, grandparenting, careers, retirement, physical, mental and spiritual aging, friendship, mothers, daughters, sisterhood in hard times, clothes, rituals, the genesis of the Red Hat Society, and of course, information on how listeners can start their own chapters.

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Alexander The Great: Lessons from History's Undefeated General (The World Generals Series) Review

Alexander The Great: Lessons from History's Undefeated General (The World Generals Series) Overview

Alexander the Great is considered one of the most successful commanders of all time and was known to be undefeated in battle. He is mentioned in the Bible as well as the Qur'an. When asked to name other great military leaders, Caesar reportedly said Alexander was the only great one. Born in 356 B.C., the son of Philip II of Macedonia, Alexander the Great was educated by Aristotle, became a consummate horseman, and commanded a wing of his father's army all when he was still a teenager. By the time of his death at age thirty-two, he had united Greece and amassed an empire that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River and included all of Persia and most of Egypt. He ruled as the shah of Persia, a pharaoh of Egypt by right of conquest, and the crowned king of Asia.

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American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution Review

American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution Overview

The Boston Tea Party affected so many American minds, hearts, and souls that it helped spawn a new, independent nation whose citizens would govern themselves for the first time in history.

On Thursday, December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men, many amateurishly disguised as Indians--then a symbol of freedom--dumped about £10,000 worth of tea in the harbor. Whatever their motives at the time, they unleashed a social, political, and economic firestorm that would culminate in the Declaration of Independence two and a half years later.

The Boston Tea Party provoked a reign of terror in Boston and other American cities, with Americans inflicting unimaginable barbarities on each other. Tea parties erupted in American cities up and down the colonies. The turmoil stripped tens of thousands of Americans of their dignity, their homes, their properties, and their birthrights--in the name of liberty and independence. Nearly 100,000 Americans left the land of their forefathers forever in what was history's largest exodus of Americans from America. Nonetheless, John Adams called the Boston Tea Party nothing short of ''magnificent.'' And he went on to say that the ''destruction of tea is so bold, so daring, so firm. . . it must have important consequences.''

Ironically, few if any Americans today--even those who call themselves Tea Party Patriots--would be able to name even one of the estimated eighty participants in the original Boston Tea Party. Nor are many Americans aware of the ''important consequences'' of the Tea Party. The acute shortage of tea that followed the Tea Party, of course, helped transform Americans into coffee drinkers, but its effects went far beyond culinary tastes.

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Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century Overview

The twentieth century has become history at an unprecedented rate. The world of 2007 is so utterly unlike that of even 1987, much less any earlier time, that we have lost touch with our immediate past even before we have begun to make sense of it

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