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A Choice Not an Echo: Updated and Expanded 50th Anniversary Edition
Phyllis Schlafly · Regnery Publishing; 50 Anv Exp edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Over 3 Million Copies Sold!Celebrate 50 years since the release of Phyllis Schlafly's monumental A Choice Not an Echo, the book that launched the conservative resurgence of the late 20th century. This special updated and expanded edition contains 50 percent new material placing the book... |
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Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America
Kinshasha Conwill · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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Dream A World Anew is the stunning gift book accompanying the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It combines informative narratives from leading scholars, curators, and authors with objects from the museum's collection to present... |
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Bill O'Reilly · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 323
Format: Print book |
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The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length... |
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The King is Dead: The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII
Suzannah Lipscomb · Pegasus Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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An insightful and elegant examination of Henry VIII's last will and testament that evokes the glittering world of the Tudor king in all its glory, pomp, and paranoia. On 28 January 1547, the sickly and obese King Henry VIII died at Whitehall. Just hours before his passing, his last... |
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First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America’s Most Elite Unit
Patrick K. O'Donnell · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Beginning in the summer of 1942, an extraordinary group of men - among them a dentist, a Hollywood movie star, an archaeologist, California surfers, and even former enemies of the Allies - united to form an exceptional unit that would forge the capabilities of the Navy's Sea, Air, and Land... |
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Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History
Mark Bailey · Algonquin Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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True tales of celebrity hijinks are served up with an equal measure of Hollywood history, movie-star mayhem, and a frothy mix of forty cocktail recipes.Humphrey Bogart got himself arrested for protecting his drinking buddies, who happened to be a pair of stuffed pandas. Ava Gardner would... |
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Beyond Freedom's Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery
Adam Rothman · Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being purchased by the De Hart family of New Orleans. Still a slave, she married and had children, who also became the property of the De Harts. But after Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862... |
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Coast Guard Heroes of New Orleans
Robert Mueller · Pelican Publishing Company
Pages: 232
Format: Print book |
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From a city's darkest hour comes an amazing tale of bravery! While other rescue operations struggled in the post-storm chaos of Hurricane Katrina, those men and women wearing the United States Coast Guard uniform powered through many obstacles - political, logistical, and physical... |
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Simon Sebag Montefiore · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 744
Format: Print book |
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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?
This is the intimate story of twenty... |
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East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
Philippe Sands · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 448
Format: Print book |
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In 2010, Philippe Sands was invited to give a lecture on genocide and crimes against humanity at Lviv University in Ukraine, which he accepted with the intent of learning about the extraordinary city that was home to his maternal grandfather, a Galician Jew who had been born there a century... |
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If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty
Eric Metaxas · Viking
Pages: 260
Format: Print book |
#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.
In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted,... |
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