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  • The Tyranny of Public Discourse

    Abraham Lincoln's Six-Element Antidote for Meaningful and Persuasive Writing

    "The ultimate teacher of fact-based, reasoned rhetoric . . . A nice dose of American history makes learning the groundbreaking technique fun." —Nerida F. Ellerton and McKenzie A. Clements, authors on writings of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham LincolnAre you satisfied with the current state of public discourse? The almost unanimous response from people across the nation is a loud and emphatic "No! ... Read more

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  • Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason

    The secrets of one of history's greatest orators are revealed in "one of the most stunningly original works on Abraham Lincoln to appear in years" (John Stauffer, professor of English and history, Harvard University).For more than 150 years, historians have speculated about what made Abraham Lincoln truly great. How did Lincoln create his compelling arguments, his convincing oratory, and his ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Guide to the Declaration of Independence

    Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the logical force of the Declaration facilitated the survival of a nation. The Ultimate Guide to the Declaration of Independence explains the document more thoroughly than any book previously published. With the aid of colorized step-by-step diagrams, the authors deconstruct Jefferson's masterpiece into the six elements of a proposition to demonstrate how the ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address

    Abraham Lincoln's November 19, 1863, Gettysburg Address is generally recognized as one of the greatest leadership speeches ever written. The Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address explains the 272-word speech more thoroughly than any book previously published. With the aid of colorized step-by-step diagrams, the authors deconstruct the speech into its basic elements and demonstrate how the ... Read more

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  • Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, and the Structure of Reason

    Almost nobody noticed. In January 2011, President Obama completely changed the structure of his speeches. A few people, like Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal and Gustav Niebuhr in The Huffington Post, figured out something was up. But neither could pin it down.Now the complete story is told and the technique is revealed. This is the one Obama book everyone should read. It is the one book on ... Read more

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  • The Secret War for the Union

    The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War

    "A treasure trove for historians . . . A real addition to Civil War history" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).At the end of the American Civil War, most of the intelligence records disappeared—remaining hidden for over a century. As a result, little has been understood about the role of espionage and other intelligence sources, from balloonists to signalmen with their telescopes.When, at the ... Read more

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  • Sherman's March

    by Burke Davis ...
    A New York Times–bestselling author's account of the devastating military campaign that broke the Confederacy's back in the last months of the Civil War.In November 1864, just days after the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln, Gen. William T. Sherman vowed to "make Georgia howl." The hero of Shiloh and his 65,000 Federal troops destroyed the great city of Atlanta, captured Savannah, and cut a ... Read more

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  • 1941: Fighting the Shadow War

    A Divided America in a World at War

    by Marc Wortman ...
    "A wide-ranging examination of America's entry into World War II." — Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewIn 1941: Fighting the Shadow War, A Divided America in a World at War, historian Marc Wortman thrillingly explores the little-known history of America's clandestine involvement in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor.Prior to that infamous day, America had long been involved in a shadow war ... Read more

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  • History in the Making

    An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years

    by Kyle Ward ...
    The popular, "thought-provoking study" that explores how contemporary prejudices change the way each generation looks at the nation's past ( Library Journal).Historian Kyle Ward, the acclaimed co-author of History Lessons, offers another fascinating look at the biases inherent in the way we think about, write about, and teach our own history. Juxtaposing passages from US history textbooks of ... Read more

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  • Nixon Agonistes

    The Crisis of the Self-Made Man

    by Garry Wills ...
    With a new preface: A "stunning" analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg ( The New York Times Book Review).In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon's infamous "enemies list," Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often "very amusing" look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising ... Read more

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  • A Blueprint for War

    FDR and the Hundred Days that Mobilized America

    by Susan Dunn ...
    Series series The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series
    " Dunn shows how FDR's Third Hundred Days were critical to overcoming isolationism and rebuilding American leadership in an age of global turmoil." (E.J. Dionne Jr., New York Times bestselling co-author of One Nation After Trump)In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide ... Read more

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  • Abraham Lincoln

    The Prairie Years

    by Carl Sandburg ...
    This definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers "a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us" ( New York Herald Tribune Book Review).Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both the man who grew up ... Read more

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