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Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

A candid, sympathetic portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. explores the complex life and dedicated career of the noted civil rights leader

By Stephen B. Oates

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9780062321459 | Reissue edition (Perennial, December 31, 2013), cover price $19.99

9780060924737 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 1994), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A candid, sympathetic portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861

Product Description: Biographer and historian Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices and perspectives of thirteen principal players in the drama, from Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay in the Missouri crisis of 1820 down to Stephen A...read more

By Stephen B. Oates

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9780060167844 | Harpercollins, February 1, 1997, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Relates the approach of the Civil War through the voices of thirteen principal figures, exploring the different perceptions they had of the reasons for war

Paperback:

9780803269316 | Reprint edition (Univ of Nebraska Pr, April 1, 2012), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Biographer and historian Stephen B.

9780060928858 | Perennial, May 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An award-winning historian offers a fresh look at the issues and viewpoints of the period leading up to the American Civil War through the voices of thirteen principal figures, from Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Lincoln.

The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865

The second book in the historian's trilogy continues his account of the Civil War years from a first person perspective, as he takes on the personas of eleven major players from the time period

By Stephen B. Oates

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9780060175801 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The second book in the historian's trilogy continues his account of the Civil War years from a first person perspective, as he takes on the personas of eleven major players from the time period

Paperback:

9780803269309 | Reprint edition (Univ of Nebraska Pr, April 1, 2012), cover price $28.95

9780060930929 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The second book in the historian's trilogy continues his account of the Civil War years from a first person perspective, as he takes on the personas of eleven major players from the time period

Portrait of America: From Reconstruction to Present

By Charles J. Errico and Stephen B. Oates

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9780495914990 | 10 student edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, August 5, 2010), cover price $137.95

Portrait of America

Portrait of America is an anthology of essays written by some of America's most eminent historians. Suitable for U.S. history survey courses, the collection has a loose biographical focus. The essays in this secondary source reader humanize American history by portraying it as a story of real people with whom students can identify. Each selection is preceded by an introduction that sets the context and a helpful glossary that identifies important individuals, events, and concepts. The Eighth Edition includes an essay in which six major historians reflect on the historical significance of September 11, 2001.

By Stephen B. Oates (editor)

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9780618220243 | 8 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, October 1, 2002), cover price $159.95 | About this edition: Portrait of America is an anthology of essays written by some of America's most eminent historians.

9789990008388 | 8 edition (Houghton Mifflin College Div, October 1, 2002), cover price $0.02 | also contains Portrait of America

9789990016758 | 7 edition (Houghton Mifflin College Div, January 1, 1999), cover price $0.02 | also contains Portrait of America

Portrait of America

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By Stephen B. Oates

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9789990008388 | 8 edition (Houghton Mifflin College Div, October 1, 2002), cover price $0.02 | also contains Portrait of America

9780618302536 | 8 edition (Houghton Mifflin College Div, August 1, 2002), cover price $97.96

9780618117246 | 7 pck edition (Houghton Mifflin College Div, June 1, 1999), cover price $42.36

9780395976999 | 7 pck edition (Houghton Mifflin College Div, June 1, 1999), cover price $71.16

9780618070664 | 7 pck edition (Houghton Mifflin College Div, January 1, 1999), cover price $35.56

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Let the Trumpet Sound

A candid, sympathetic portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. explores the complex life and dedicated career of the noted civil rights leader

By Stephen B. Oates

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Hardcover:

9780060149932 | Harpercollins, July 1, 1982, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A candid, sympathetic portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Approaching Fury

By Stephen B. Oates

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Miscellaneous:

9780061952067 | Harpercollins, June 23, 2009, cover price $10.99

The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

Product Description: The bloody slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831, and the savage reprisals that followed, shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War...read more

By Stephen B. Oates

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Hardcover:

9780809590100, titled "The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion" | Reprint edition (Borgo Pr, December 1, 1990), cover price $31.00 | About this edition: The bloody slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831, and the savage reprisals that followed, shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War.

Paperback:

9780060916701, titled "The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion" | Reprint edition (Perennial, April 1, 1990), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Portrays America's most famous slave rebel and the insurrection he led in southeastern Virginia's Southampton County in August, 1831

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780788709357, titled "The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion" | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, December 1, 1997), cover price $49.00 | About this edition: The bloody slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831, and the savage reprisals that followed, shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War.

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9781439512500, titled "The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The bloody slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831, and the savage reprisals that followed, shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War.

With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

“Full, fair, and accurate. . . . Certainly the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written.” —Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald, New York Times Book ReviewFrom preeminent Civil War historian Stephen B. Oates comes the book the Washington Post hails as “the standard one-volume biography of Lincoln.” Oates’ With Malice Toward None is recognized as the seminal biography of the Sixteenth President, by one of America’s most prominent historians.

By Stephen B. Oates

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9780945707325 | Amer Political Biography Pr, January 31, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: “Full, fair, and accurate.

Paperback:

9780060924713 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 1994), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Presents a portrait of Lincoln as an uncommonly complex man of compassion and ambition, honesty and political acumen, and wit and morbid melancholy

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9781439508510 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $26.00

Portrait of America: From Before Columbus to the End of Reconstruction

By Stephen B. Oates

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9780395900772 | Houghton Mifflin College Div, January 1, 1999, cover price $60.95

9780395708873 | Houghton Mifflin College Div, August 1, 1994, cover price $53.95 | also contains Murder in the Mystery Suite

Portrait of America: From Before Columbus to the End of Reconstruction

Product Description: Portrait of America is an anthology of essays written by some of America's most eminent historians. Suitable for U.S. history survey courses, the collection has a loose biographical focus. The essays in this secondary source reader humanize American history by portraying it as a story of real people with whom students can identify...read more

By Charles J. Errico (editor) and Stephen B. Oates (editor)

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9780618220236 | 8 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, August 1, 2002), cover price $159.95 | About this edition: Portrait of America is an anthology of essays written by some of America's most eminent historians.

A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War

Product Description: When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted, more than anything else, to become a Union soldier. Determined to serve, she became instead a one-woman relief agency. She made her way to the front lines and supplied medical relief to the victims of some of the most famous battles of the war...read more

By Stephen B. Oates

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Hardcover:

9780029234051 | Free Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Recounts Clara Barton's work in arranging medical assistance for the wounded at such battles as Antietam and Fredericksburg, and looks at how her example led to nursing becoming a trained, paid occupation after the war

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9780028740126 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, May 1, 1995), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Recounts Clara Barton's work in arranging medical assistance for the wounded at such battles as Antietam and Fredericksburg, and looks at how her example led to nursing becoming a trained, paid occupation after the war.

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9781439508589 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted, more than anything else, to become a Union soldier.

Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths

Attempts to provide an intimate look at Lincoln's character, beliefs, and personality, describes the real impact of his assassination, and includes a profile of Mary Todd Lincoln

By Stephen B. Oates

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9780060924720 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 1994), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Attempts to provide an intimate look at Lincoln's character, beliefs, and personality, describes the real impact of his assassination, and includes a profile of Mary Todd Lincoln

9780452009394 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, May 1, 1991), cover price $10.00

Confederate Cavalry West of the River

By Stephen B. Oates

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9780292711525 | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, April 1, 1992), cover price $25.00

Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr

A candid, sympathetic portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. explores the complex life and dedicated career of the noted civil rights leader

By Stephen B. Oates

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9780451623508 | Reprint edition (New Amer Library, August 1, 1991), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: A candid, sympathetic portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.

William Faulkner: The Man and the Artist

Based on Faulkner collections at two universities, a previously unexamined private collection, and interviews with Faulkner's associates, this biography profiles the often contradictory personality of the famed Southern author

By Stephen B. Oates

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Hardcover:

9780517053454 | Outlet, June 1, 1991, cover price $6.99

Paperback:

9780060915018 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 1988), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Based on Faulkner collections at two universities, a previously unexamined private collection, and interviews with Faulkner's associates, this biography profiles the often contradictory personality of the famed Southern author

Making of the Constitution

Product Description: Wood presents important information about the founding period in our nation's history, conveying not only the content but also the spirit of the debates surrounding the Philadelphia Convention and its aftermath.

By Stephen B. Oates

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9780918954541 | Baylor Univ Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Wood presents important information about the founding period in our nation's history, conveying not only the content but also the spirit of the debates surrounding the Philadelphia Convention and its aftermath.

Portrait of America: From the European Discovery to the End of Reconstruction

By Stephen B. Oates

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9780395554272 | 5th edition (Houghton Mifflin School, November 1, 1990), cover price $25.96

Portrait of America: From Reconstruction to the Present

By Stephen B. Oates

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9780395433546 | 5th edition (Houghton Mifflin School, November 1, 1990), cover price $25.96

Biography as History

By Stephen B. Oates

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9780918954497 | Baylor Univ Pr, December 1, 1987, cover price $19.95

William Faulkner: The Man and the Artist : A Biography

By Stephen B. Oates

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9780060157715 | Harpercollins, August 1, 1987, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Based on Faulkner collections at two universities, a previously unexamined private collection, and interviews with Faulkner's associates, this biography profiles the often contradictory personality of the famed Southern author

Rip Ford's Texas

Product Description: The Republic of Texas was still in its first exultation over independence when John Salmon "Rip" Ford arrived from South Carolina in June of 1836. Ford stayed to participate in virtually every major event in Texas history during the next sixty years...read more

By John Salmon Ford and Stephen B. Oates

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9780292770331 | Reissue edition (Univ of Texas Pr, April 1, 1987), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The Republic of Texas was still in its first exultation over independence when John Salmon "Rip" Ford arrived from South Carolina in June of 1836.

Paperback:

9780292770348 | Reissue edition (Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 1987), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The Republic of Texas was still in its first exultation over independence when John Salmon "Rip" Ford arrived from South Carolina in June of 1836.

Biography As High Adventure: Life-Writers Speak on Their Art

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By Stephen B. Oates (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780870235139 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, June 1, 1986, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: 8vo.

Paperback:

9780870235146 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, June 1, 1986, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Book by

To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown

Nearly one hundred fifty years after his epochal Harpers Ferry raid to free the slaves, John Brown is still one of the most controversial figures in American history. In 1970, Stephen B. Oates wrote what has come to be recognized as the definitive biography of Brown, a balanced assessment that captures the man in all his complexity. The book is now back in print in an updated edition with a new prologue by the author.

By Stephen B. Oates

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Hardcover:

9780060132316 | Harpercollins, July 1, 1970, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Nearly one hundred fifty years after his epochal Harpers Ferry raid to free the slaves, John Brown is still one of the most controversial figures in American history.

Paperback:

9780870234583 | Reprint edition (Univ of Massachusetts Pr, August 1, 1984), cover price $27.95

9780061316555 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1970, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Nearly one hundred fifty years after his epochal Harpers Ferry raid to free the slaves, John Brown is still one of the most controversial figures in American history.

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