The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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The Wright Brothers
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
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Andrew Carnegie
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the …
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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
From Neal Gabler, the definitive portrait of one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American entertainment and cultural history.
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Washington: A Life
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The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and t…
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Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
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Theodore Rex
Theodore Roosevelt and his two-term presidency (1901-9) deserve a king-size, seize-the-man biography - and Edmund Morris has provided one. "TR" typifies the "can do" American; his famous maxim, of cou…
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One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America.
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What happens when an adventure travel expert-who's never actually done anything adventurous-tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?Buy this book on Amazon
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