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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
NICK BILTON · PORTFOLIO PENGUIN
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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From New York Times-bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road. In Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton gave readers an astonishingly reported, riveting,... |
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Mellencamp: American Troubadour
David Masciotra · The University Press of Kentucky
Format: Kindle Edition
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"Throughout his prolific career, John Mellencamp has performed more than twenty Top 40 hits, has been nominated for thirteen Grammy Awards, and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Hits like Jack and Diane, Small Town, and Cherry Bomb are iconic American songs that... |
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The Keillor Reader
Garrison Keillor · Viking Books
Pages: 361
Format: Hardcover
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Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done - a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist,... |
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Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
Joan Biskupic · Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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To become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor went against the odds. Her historic appointment in 2009-made by President Obama, whose own 2008 victory appeared improbable-flowed from cultural and political changes in America that helped lift up this daughter of a Puerto... |
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Footsteps in the Snow
Charles Lachman · Berkley
Format: Book
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NOW A LIFETIME MOVIE CHANNEL DOCUMENTARYIt was a shocking true crime that left two families shattered, and became the coldest case in U.S. history.Who really killed little Maria? The question fueled a real-life nightmare in Sycamore, Illinois...1957. Sycamore, Illinois. Christmas was three... |
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Lessons My Father Taught Me: The Strength, Integrity, and Faith of Ronald Reagan
Michael Reagan · Humanix Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestselling author Michael Reagan is the adopted son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. In this book, Michael Reagan reveals what it was like growing up as a child to one of the most famous Hollywood stars who went on to become a great American president and one of the greatest... |
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Woodrow Wilson and World War I: A Burden Too Great to Bear
Barbara W. Tuchman · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Kindle Edition
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This book is a story of Presidential failure, a chronicle of Woodrow Wilson's miscalculations in war, and a harrowing account of the process through which an intelligent American leader fell to pieces under a burden he could not bear. Historian Richard Striner argues persuasively that President... |
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Reagan: American Icon
Iwan Morgan · I. B. Tauris & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Ronald Reagan is one of the most important -- and arguably most successful -- presidents in modern American history. He is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity in the wake of the most miserable economic era since the 1930s, laying the foundations for Cold War victory and doing... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West
Bill O'Reilly · Henry Holt and Co.; Mti edition
Format: eBook
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we knowHow did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone... |
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Eating Viet Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table
Graham Holliday · Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A journalist and blogger takes us on a colorful and spicy gastronomic tour through Viet Nam in this entertaining, offbeat travel memoir, with a foreword by Anthony Bourdain. Growing up in a small town in northern England, Graham Holliday wasnt keen on travel. But in his early twenties,... |
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The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur
Mark Perry · Basic Books (AZ)
Pages: 380
Format: Hardcover
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At times, even his admirers seemed unsure of what to do with General Douglas MacArthur. Imperious, headstrong, and vain, MacArthur matched an undeniable military genius with a massive ego and a rebellious streak that often seemed to destine him for the dustbin of history. Yet despite... |
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The Search for Anne Perry: The Hidden Life of a Bestselling Crime Writer
Joanne Drayton · Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In 1994, director Peter Jackson released the movie Heavenly Creatures, based on a famous 1950s matricide committed in New Zealand by two teenage girls embroiled in an obsessive relationship. The movie launched Jackson’s international career. It also forever changed the life of Anne... |
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