Heaven in the American Imagination

$29.95
Hardback, May 2011
ISBN13: 9780199738953ISBN10: 0199738955
A sweeping, provocative portrait of what Americans--from Jonathan Edwards to Mitch Albom--have thought about heaven


Making the American Self

Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
$19.95
Paperback, Aug 2009
ISBN13: 9780195387896ISBN10: 0195387899
Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Walker Howe explores the origins and history of a quintessentially American project: the conscious creation of self


American Original

A Life of Will Rogers
$55.00
Hardback, Mar 1996
ISBN13: 9780195086935ISBN10: 0195086937
An appealing biography of Will Rogers


You Never Call! You Never Write!

A History of the Jewish Mother
$74.00
Hardback, Feb 2007
ISBN13: 9780195147872ISBN10: 0195147871
A colorful history of the Jewish Mother in American culture, from The Jazz Singer to The Sisters Rosensweig and The Red Tent


Gone to Texas

A History of the Lone Star State
$44.95
Paperback, Feb 2004
ISBN13: 9780195138436ISBN10: 0195138430
A magnificent narrative history of Texas, from prehistory to the present, written by a leading Lone Star historian


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