American History Revised (90 page)

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Yale University Press, 2003.

Vipperman, Carl J.
William Lowndes and the Transition of American Politics. 1782–1822.
University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Wade, Wyn Craig. The Titanic: End of a Dream. Rawson Wade Publishers, 1979.

Walker, Ronald W., Richard E. Turley Jr., and Glen M. Leonard.
Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy.
Oxford University Press, 2008.

Walters, Rob.
Spread Spectrum: Hedy Lamarr and the Mobile Phone.
BookSurge (UK), 2006.

Warner, Sam Bass, Jr.
The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City.
Harper and Row, 1972.

Wasik, John F.
The Merchant of Power.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Wavell, Earl.
Soldiers and Soldiering.
Jonathan Cape, 1953.

Weaver, John C.
The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World 1650–1900.
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.

Weigley, Russell F.
The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy.
Indiana University Press, 1973.

Weinberg, Gerhard L.
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II.
Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Wheeler, Tom.
Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War.
HarperCollins, 2006.

Willett, Robert L.
Russian Sideshow: America’s Undeclared War 1918–1920.
Brassey’s, 2003.

Williams, T. Harry.
The History of American Wars.
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Wilson, George.
Stephen Girard: The Life and Times of America’s First Tycoon.
Combined Books, 1995.

Wilson, Major L.
The Presidency of Martin Van Buren.
University Press of Kansas, 1984.

Winik, Jay.
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Harper Perennial, 2006.

Winks, Robin, ed.
The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence.
Harper & Row, 1968.

Wolfe, Alan.
Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What to Do About It.
Princeton University Press, 2005.

Wood, Gordon S.
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin.
Penguin, 2004.

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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787.
University of North Carolina Press, 1969 (1998 edition).

Woodward, W. E.
The Way Our People Lived: An Intimate History.
E. P. Dutton, 1944.

Worster, Donald.
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s.
Oxford University Press, 1979.

Worthen, Dennis B.,
Pharmacy in World War II.
Haworth Press, 2004.

Yeomans, Henry Aaron.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell: 1856–1943
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Yergin, Daniel.
The Prize.
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Around the World with General Grant.
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Zinsser, Hans.
Rats, Lice and History.
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S
eymour Morris Jr.
is an international business entrepreneur and former head of corporate communications for the world’s largest management consulting firm. Living abroad for the past twelve years, interviewing foreign students for Harvard University, forced him to see his country as an outsider and compelled him to examine American history from a fresh perspective. He holds a degree in American history from Harvard and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He lives in New York City and Connecticut with his wife.