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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
James Lee Mcdonough · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 832
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of one of America's most storied military figures. General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented... |
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King · Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceUSA Today, "New and Noteworthy""This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture." -- New York... |
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Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Returned to Fight as Confederate Soldiers
TOM MCMILLAN · Regnery History
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Gettysburg Rebels is the gripping true story of five young men who grew up in Gettysburg, moved south to Virginia in the 1850s, joined the Confederate army - and returned "home" as foreign invaders for the great battle in July 1863. Drawing on rarely-seen documents and family... |
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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
A J BAIME · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely, small-town former farmer and haberdasher had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Heroes are often defined as ordinary... |
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Anne Frank: The Biography
Melissa Müller · Metropolitan Books; Revised edition
Format: Hardcover
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Updated and filled with striking new revelations, the bestselling, "superb" biography that "honors in full a life we thought we knew" (Newsweek) Praised as "remarkable," "meticulous," and "long overdue," Anne Frank: The Biography, originally... |
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Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service
Devin Leonard · Grove Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, forty percent of the world's volume. It is far more efficient than any other mail service - more than twice as efficient as the Japanese... |
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Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
Douglas R Egerton · Basic Books
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first, the South and most of the North responded with outrage - southerners promised to execute any black soldiers captured in battle,... |
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Walking Point: From the Ashes of the Vietnam War
Perry A Ulander · North Atlantic Books
Pages: 252
Format: Print book
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In this intimate memoir, Perry A. Ulander chronicles with powerful clarity the bewildering predicament he confronted and the fellowship and guidance that transformed him during the year he served as an American GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Conveying with unadorned precision the harrowing... |
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Places of Invention
Arthur P Molella · Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2015.
Pages: 302
Format: Print book
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The companion book to an upcoming museum exhibition of the same name, Places of Invention seeks to answer timely questions about the nature of invention and innovation: What is it about some places that sparks invention and innovation? Is it simply being at the right place at the right... |
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Walking Point: From the Ashes of the Vietnam War
Perry A Ulander · North Atlantic Books
Pages: 252
Format: Print book
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In this intimate memoir, Perry A. Ulander chronicles with powerful clarity the bewildering predicament he confronted and the fellowship and guidance that transformed him during the year he served as an American GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Conveying with unadorned precision the harrowing... |
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