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Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
Sarah Gristwood · Basic Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule - whether they were on the throne or behind the scenes, women held unprecedented power for more than a hundred years. From Isabella of Castile, her daughter Katherine of Aragon, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici,... |
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
Blanche Wiesen Cook · Viking
Pages: 688
Format: Print book
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"Outstanding ... A winning concluding volume in a series that does for Eleanor Roosevelt what Robert Caro has done for Lyndon Johnson." -Kirkus Reviews, Starred ReviewThe final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady.Historians, politicians, critics,... |
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A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster
Joshua Partlow · Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United States--brilliantly portrayed here in its entirety for the first time by the former Washington Post Kabul bureau chief. The United... |
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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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Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans
JIM STAVRIDIS · Penguin Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most admired admirals of his generation - and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO - comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world's most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial... |
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
Anonymous. · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision for America. In the book, Sanders shares experiences from the campaign trail and outlines his ideas for continuing a political revolution to fight for a progressive economic,... |
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High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
Glenn Frankel · Bloomsbury
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Searchers, the revelatory story behind the classic movie High Noon and the toxic political climate in which it was created. It's one of the most revered movies of Hollywood's golden era. Starring screen legend Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly... |
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
Candice Millard · Doubleday
Pages: 381
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime... |
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Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
Pamela Newkirk · Amistad Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning journalist reveals a little-known and shameful episode in American history, when an African man was used as a human zoo exhibit - a shocking story of racial prejudice, science, and tragedy in the early years of the twentieth century in the tradition of The Immortal Life... |
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Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry
PATRICK J CHARLES · Prometheus Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment. This illuminating study traces... |
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Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt
Sarah Jaffe · Nation Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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"Sarah Jaffe marches into the class war, fighting the good fight with a pen as sharp as any sword." - Bill Moyers"The most compelling social and political portrait of our age." - Robin D. G. KelleyWe are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political engagement and social... |
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Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Gordon S Wood · Penguin Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course.Thomas... |
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