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Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
Charles Slack · Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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When the United States government passed the Bill of Rights in 1791, its uncompromising protection of speech and of the press were unlike anything the world had ever seen before. But by 1798, the once-dazzling young republic of the United States was on the verge of collapse partisanship... |
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Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution
WILLARD STERNE RANDALL · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 452
Format: Hardcover
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Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Willard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global... |
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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
Howard Markel · Pantheon
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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From the much admired medical historian, author of An Anatomy of Addiction, the story of the two Kellogg brothers: one who became America's most beloved physician between the mid-nineteenth century and World War II, a best-selling author, lecturer and health magazine publisher who was read... |
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F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
William J. Maxwell · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages... |
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The Iron Road: An Illustrated History of the Railroad
Christian Wolmar · DK
Format: Hardcover
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Written by Christian Wolmar, author of the critically acclaimed The Great Railroad Revolution, The Iron Road is a richly illustrated account of the rise of the rails across the world. From the historic moment in September 1830 when the first train ran between Liverpool and Manchester, to the high... |
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Adventures in Saying Yes: A Journey from Fear to Faith
Carl Medearis · Bethany House Publishers
Format: eBook
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Adventures Await When You Overcome FearThis is the story of a normal family of five living a very unusual life. The Medearis family has faced Middle Eastern prisons, death threats, being kicked out of a country two times, and war. It hasn't always been easy, but in the midst of it all,... |
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Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Harold Holzer · Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize “Lincoln believed that ‘with public sentiment nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.’ Harold Holzer makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lincoln’s leadership by showing us how deftly he managed... |
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Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life
Sally Bedell Smith · Random House
Pages: 596
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The life and loves of Prince Charles are illuminated in a major new biography from the New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen - perfect for fans of The Crown. Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British royal family to give us a new look... |
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The King's Revenge Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History
Don Jordan · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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When Charles I was executed, his sonCharles II made it his role to seek out retribution, producing the biggestmanhunt Britain had ever seen, one that wouldspan Europe and America and wouldlast for thirty years. "We shall pursue and bring to their due punishment those bloody traitors... |
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A Brief History of WWI
Jon E. Lewis · Running Press; Revised edition
Format: Book
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No other conflict has so dramatically illustrated the senselessness of war and shaped the modern world to the same extent, from its impact on the Russian Revolution and the rise of Hitler to the final break-up of the British Empire and the supremacy of America. Contains over 180 compelling... |
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Cleveland Calamities:: A History of Storm, Fire and Pestilence
Alan F Dutka · The History Press
Pages: 143
Format: Print book
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For the first time under one cover, here are the tales of Cleveland's greatest blizzards, most destructive tornados, nastiest snowstorms and worst floods--and so much more. A pseudo tidal wave once pounded the Lake Erie shore from Bay Village to the Pennsylvania border. A phantom ice age caused... |
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The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
Jeremy Scahill · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Major revelations about the US government's drone program - bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept expose stunning new details about America's secret assassination policy.When the US government discusses drone strikes publicly, it offers... |
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