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Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution
Jeff Broadwater · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," were two of the most important Founders of the United States as well as the closest of political allies. Yet historians have often seen a tension between the idealistic... |
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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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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Serhii Plokhy · Basic Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens... |
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Home Front to Battlefront: An Ohio Teenager in World War II
Frank Lavin · Ohio University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Carl Lavin was a high school senior in Canton, Ohio, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. In his freshman year of college, he joined the reserves, a decision that would take him with the US Army from training across the United States and Britain to combat with the 84th Infantry Division in the Battle... |
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Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life
Diarmaid MacCulloch · Viking
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in government, based on a decade of original archival research, which reveals at last Cromwell's role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn
"This a book that - and it's not often you can say this... |
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
DEBORAH CADBURY · PublicAffairs
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.
By the 1890s, Queen Victoria had over thirty grandchildren, and to maintain and increase British royal power she was determined to maneuver them... |
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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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Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof
Roger Clarke · St. Martin's Press
Format: Kindle Edition
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A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Roger Clarke tells this [the story that inspired Henry James' The Turn of the Screw] and many other gloriously weird stories with real verve, and also a kind of narrative authority that tends to constrain the skeptical... |
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.
Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have... |
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The Memory Code: The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments
Lynne Kelly · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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The discovery of a powerful memory technique used by our Neolithic ancestors in their monumental memory places -- and how we can use their secrets to train our own minds In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals... |
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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 End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
Rick Wartzman · PublicAffairs
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore.
In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General... |
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