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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2004
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Summary: Evaluates the pivotal contributions of history's only five-star admirals and how their triumphs in World War II rendered the United States the world's dominant sea power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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Summary: "When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks of the war were much more tenuous, and a fractured and ragtag group of colonial militias had to coalesce to have even the slimmest chance of toppling the mighty British Army. American Spring follows a fledgling nation from Paul Revere's little-known ride of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: The first complete biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk's pledge to serve a single term, which many thought would make him a lame duck, enabled him to rise above electoral politics and to outflank his adversaries. Thus he plotted and attained a formidable agenda: He fought for and won tariff reductions, reestablished an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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Summary: James K. Polk emerges as the man who won a war, doubled America's size and empowered the executive branch in just a single term against a contentious political backdrop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008