{"title":"Richard White","description":"Richard White is Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous prize-winning books, including Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, and \"It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own\" A New History of the American West. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Mellon Distinguished Scholar Award, among other awards.","products":[{"product_id":"the-republic-for-which-it-stands-the-united-states-during-reconstruction-and-the-gilded-age-1865-1896-hardcover","title":"The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford History of the United States \u003c\/em\u003eis the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. 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