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American Sphinx
• Joseph J. Ellis
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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More character study than strict biography, this celebrated book describes and defines Thomas Jefferson's beliefs, influences and aspirations.
(USA51, $16.00)
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The Chesapeake Bay Book, A Complete Guide
• Allison Blake
• Tracy Sahler
• GUIDEBOOK
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An intimate guidebook to the Bay, lovingly written by a local newspaper reporter. The book covers sites all along the eastern and western shores of the bay, with lots of history and practical information.
(USE17, $18.95)
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Confederates in the Attic
• Tony Horwitz
• HISTORY
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Subtitled "Dispatched from the Unfinished Civil War," this book reveals the strange world of the re-enactors, unreconstructed confederates and others whose ongoing interest and involvement in the War Between the States provide an intriguing cultural portrait of the southern and mid-Atlantic states.
(USS35, $16.00)
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The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787
• Gordon S. Wood
• HISTORY
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This sweeping political history examines America's transformation from colony to republic during the Revolutionary War.
(USE79, $25.00)
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Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787
• Christopher Collier
• James Lincoln Collier
• HISTORY
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A popular history of the writing of the U.S. Constitution, written for a general audience and full of details on the events and personalities that shaped the document.
(USE122, $7.99)
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The First Salute, A View of the American Revolution
• Barbara Tuchman
• HISTORY
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An analysis of the American Revolution, focusing on the European politics surrounding the war, and the conflicts between the British and Dutch navy.
(USA04, $16.95)
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John Adams
• David McCullough
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning best-selling biography of the second president. McCullough reveals him as a magnificent figure who helped shaped the nation.
(USE201, $20.00)
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Life in the Chesapeake Bay
• Alice Jane Lippson
• Robert L. Lippson
• NATURAL HISTORY
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This combination field guide and ecological primer on the Chesapeake Bay is a comprehensive guide to local plants and animals which describes the wetlands habitat in which they live.
(USS17, $25.00)
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic States
• Peter Alden
• Brian Cassie
• FIELD GUIDE
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A compact photographic guide to the wildflowers, trees, mosses, butterflies, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals of the Mid-Atlantic States.
(USE73, $19.95)
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United States Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Map
• Hallwag
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A map of the eastern United States from the northern half of Georgia to the southern part of New York, at a scale of 1,200,000.
(USS57, $14.95)
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