Rainbow's End

The Crash of 1929
$24.99
Paperback, Feb 2003
ISBN13: 9780195158014ISBN10: 0195158016
A compulsively readable history of the stock market crash of 1929, written by one of America's foremost business historians


All Shook Up

How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America
$19.99
Paperback, Oct 2004
ISBN13: 9780195177497ISBN10: 0195177495
A brilliant account of the birth of rock 'n roll and how it transformed America in the 1950s


James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights

$28.00
Hardback, May 2006
ISBN13: 9780195181050ISBN10: 0195181050
The newest volume in the acclaimed Pivotal Moments series-- A spellbinding account of how James Madison saved the Constitution and championed the Bill of Rights


Adams vs. Jefferson

The Tumultuous Election of 1800
$19.99
Paperback, Sep 2005
ISBN13: 9780195189063ISBN10: 019518906X
A fast-paced narrative of the dramatic election of 1800, in which two Founding Fathers waged a bitter battle to shape the destiny of the young nation


As If an Enemy's Country

The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution
$24.95
Hardback, Jan 2010
ISBN13: 9780195382471ISBN10: 0195382471
A compelling account of the crisis that helped transform colonists into revolutionaries


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