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I Love Capitalism!: An American Story
Kenneth G Langone · Portfolio
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Iconoclastic entrepreneur and New York legend Ken Langone tells the compelling story of how a poor boy from Long Island became one of America's most successful businessmen.Ken Langone has seen it all on his way to a net worth beyond his wildest dreams. A pillar of corporate America... |
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
Stephen R Platt · Knopf
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of the Opium War--a vivid narrative of the earliest Western efforts to open China to trade and the resulting war that ensured the decline of imperial China.When Britain declared war on China in 1839, it sealed the fate of what had been, for centuries, the wealthiest... |
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Our Year of War: Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided
DANIEL BOLGER · Da Capo Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The gritty and engaging story of two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. One supported the war, the other detested it, but they fought it together.1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands.... |
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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
JARED BROCK · PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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This sweeping biography about the man who was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is an epic tale of courage and bravery in the face of unimaginable trials.The Road to Dawn tells the improbable story of Josiah Henson-a dynamic, driven man with exceptional... |
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The Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in America
Don Johnson · Oxford University Press
Pages: 664
Format: Hardcover
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The United States is entering a period of profound uncertainty in the world political economy--an uncertainty which is threatening the liberal economic order that its own statesmen created at the end of the Second World War. The storm surrounding this threat has been ignited by an issue... |
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Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
Luke Barr · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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In a tale replete with scandal and opulence, Luke Barr, author of the New York Times bestselling Provence, 1970, transports readers to turn-of-the-century London and Paris to discover how celebrated hotelier César Ritz and famed chef Auguste Escoffier joined forces at the Savoy Hotel to spawn... |
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The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947
DANIEL KURTZ-PHELAN · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A spellbinding narrative of the high-stakes mission that changed the course of America, China, and global politics -- and a rich portrait of the towering, complex figure who carried it out.As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory.... |
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Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero
Devon A Mihesuah · University of Oklahoma Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr's death for a crime he did not commit? For more than a century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and even serious historians have produced largely... |
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