Greed, romance and desperation abound in Giles Milton’s exploration of the colonial enterprise that paved the way to the United States of America. At the book’s heart lies the vanishing of the 1587 settlement on Roanoke Island, whose 115 inhabitants met with a grisly end.
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A searing and visceral account of how the American West was really won. Told from the point of view of the American Indian, the catalogue of broken promises, treaties and battles is a tragic but essential story. Translated into 17 languages and a bestseller worldwide, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee awakened a new understanding of America’s past.
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John Adams - revolutionist, political theorist. One of four acclaimed biographies of America's Founding Fathers in a superb Folio collection.
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Benjamin Franklin was an unrivalled polymath and the intellectual architect of many revolutionary ideas, yet he started his career as a runaway with a few coins in his pocket. This acclaimed biography is part of a Folio collection of America's Founding Fathers.
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In examining the many-faceted character of Thomas Jefferson – farmer, inventor, natural historian, architect, brilliant lawyer and politician – Pulitzer-Prize-nominated historian, R. B. Bernstein reveals the complexity and passion of the author of the Declaration of Independence.
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George Washington, commander-in-chief of the army and America's first president, remains the most celebrated figure in the pantheon of the American Revolution. Ellis’s aim was to create ‘not another epic, but rather a fresh portrait’. The result is a landmark work.
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Angie Debo's comprehensive and compassionate account provides an unrivalled history of American Indians from the dawn of their first contact with Europeans to the late twentieth century.
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Vibrant with wit and charm, covering the great events of history, but always interested in day-to-day life, Cooke's legendary broadcasts provide a remarkable portrait of the United States in the second half of the 20th century.
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The book of Parkman's youth and one of the first great chronicles of the American West, The Oregon Trail remains the most popular of all his works.
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The story of the American revolution, from the Boston Tea Party to Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, is often celebrated as the triumph of heroic American patriots over tyrannical imperialists. Yet, as this gripping and detailed account reveals, it hardly seemed like that to those who lived through it.
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