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The United States

The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History
Gordon S. Wood
Walter Rusell Mead
The Way of the Ship: America's Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600-2000
Alex Roland, W. Jeffrey Bolster, and Alexander Keyssar
Walter Rusell Mead
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
Ted Sorensen
Walter Rusell Mead
The Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877
Walter A. McDougall
Walter Russell Mead
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
Walter Russell Mead
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