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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Michael Wallis · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion."WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper... |
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The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
PETER BRANNEN · ECCO
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen, poison-gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids. In The Ends of the World, Peter Brannen dives into deep time, exploring Earth's past dead ends, and in the process, offers us a glimpse of our possible future.Many scientists... |
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Escape from Dannemora: Richard Matt, David Sweat, and the Great Adirondack Manhunt
Michael Benson · ForeEdge
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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It was one of the biggest crime stories of the decade - two deadly killers, desperate and on the run. After months of planning, Ricky Matt and David Sweat cut, chopped, coerced, and connived their way out of a maximum-security prison in the wilderness of upstate New York and managed to elude... |
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Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty
John B. Boles · Basic Books
Pages: 656
Format: Print book
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Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while situating him amid the sweeping upheaval... |
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Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
Steven Levingston · Hachette Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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From journalist and author Steven Levingston, a gripping, detailed account of the contentious relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. during the tumultuous early years of the Civil Rights movement. Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth... |
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Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life
Jonathan Gould · Crown Archetype
Pages: 533
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited, definitive biography of The King of Soul, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Redding's iconic performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Otis Redding remains an immortal presence in the canon of American music on the strength of such classic hits as "(Sittin'... |
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Pershing's Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I
Richard Faulkner · University Press of Kansas
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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The Great War caught a generation of American soldiers at a turning point in the nation's history. At the moment of the Republic's emergence as a key player on the world stage, these were the first Americans to endure mass machine warfare, and the first to come into close contact... |
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