Best Sellers in U.S. History

-- Library Journal, 07/23/2009

1) Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Gordon-Reed, Annette
W.W. Norton
2008. ISBN 0393064778 [9780393064773]. $35

2) American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Meacham, Jon
Random House
2008. ISBN 1400063256 [9781400063253]. $30

3) Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Sugrue, Thomas J.
Random House
2008. ISBN 0679643036 [9780679643036]. $35

4) Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
Norrell, Robert J.
Belknap: Harvard University Press
2009. ISBN 067403211x [9780674032118]. $35

5) Death or Liberty: African Americans And Revolutionary America
Egerton, Douglas R.
Oxford University Press
2009. ISBN 0195306694 [9780195306699]. $29.95

6) King’s Dream
Sundquist, Eric J.
Yale University Press
2009. ISBN 0300118074 [9780300118070]. $26

7) How Free Is Free? The Long Death of Jim Crow
Litwack, Leon F.
Harvard University Press
2009. ISBN 0674031520 [9780674031524]. $18.95

8) Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
Ifill, Gwen
Doubleday
2009. ISBN 038552501X [9780385525015]. $24.95

9) What Shall We Do with the Negro? Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America
Escott, Paul D.
University of Virginia Press
2009. ISBN 0813927862 [9780813927862]. $29.95

10) Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Brands, H.W.
Doubleday
2008. ISBN 0385519583 [9780385519588]. $35

11) Myth of American Exceptionalism
Hodgson, Godfrey
Yale University Press
2009. ISBN 0300125704 [9780300125702]. $26

12) Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860–1861
Holzer, Harold
Simon & Schuster
2008. ISBN 0743289471 [9780743289474]. $30

13) Abraham Lincoln: A Life
Burlingame, Michael
Johns Hopkins
2008. ISBN 0801889936 [9780801889936]. $125

14) Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom
Hahn, Steven
Harvard University Press
2009. ISBN 0674032969 [9780674032965]. $21.95

15) Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938–1965
Finley, Keith M.
Louisiana State University Press
2008. ISBN 0807133450 [9780807133453]. $40

16) That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution
Schoultz, Lars
University of North Carolina Press
2009. ISBN 080783260x [9780807832608]. $35

17) Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965
Houck, Davis W.
University Press of Mississippi
2009. ISBN 1604731079 [9781604731071]. $50

18) Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789–1859
Varon, Elizabeth R.
University of North Carolina Press
2008. ISBN 0807832324 [9780807832325]. $30

19) It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
Asante, Molefi K.
St. Martin’s
2008. ISBN 0312373260 [9780312373269]. $25.95

20) Nothing To Fear: FDR’s Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America
Cohen, Adam Seth
Penguin Group (USA)
2009. ISBN 159420196X [9781594201967]. $29.95

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