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The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's 1927 Transatlantic Crossing
Dan Hampton · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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A gripping and unique "in-the-cockpit" account of Charles Lindbergh's extraordinary first transatlantic flight from New York to Paris, by acclaimed aviation historian (Viper Pilot, Lords of the Sky) and former fighter pilot Dan Hampton - "one of the most decorated pilots... |
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The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House
DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN · BALLANTINE
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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The dramatic story of a founding father, his illegitimate son, and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolution - from the acclaimed author of The Lincolns. Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America's founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness - even his grandfatherly... |
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Kate Moore · Sourcebooks
Pages: 496
Format: Print book
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The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark dangerThe Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element... |
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Making It: Why Manufacturing Still Matters
Louis Uchitelle · The New Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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From the longtime New York Times economics correspondent, a closely reported argument for the continuing importance of industry for American prosperity In the 1950s manufacturing generated nearly 30 percent of U.S. income. Over the past fifty-five years that share has gradually declined... |
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Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey
David Hugh Bunnell · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Good Friday on the Rez introduces readers to places and people that author, writer, and entrepreneur David Bunnell encounters during his one day, 280-mile road trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to visit his longtime friend, Vernell White Thunder,... |
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Janesville: An American Story
AMY GOLDSTEIN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A Washington Post reporter's intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors' assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin - Paul Ryan's hometown - and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class.This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American... |
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The New Koreans: The Story of a Nation
Michael Breen · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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Just a few decades ago, the Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. The nature and values of the Korean people provide the background for a more detailed examination of the complex history of the country, in particular... |
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Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War
James Wright · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of the engagement. Or both. Veterans of the war remain largely anonymous figures, accomplices in the mistake. Critically recounting the steps that led to the war, this book does not excuse... |
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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
Daniel J Sharfstein · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 613
Format: Hardcover
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The epic clash of two American legends -- their brutal war and a battle of ideas that defined America after Reconstruction.Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most... |
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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
DAVID MCCULLOUGH · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States - winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others - that reminds us of fundamental American principles.Over the course of his distinguished... |
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Wisconsin's Lost Towns
Rhonda Fochs · North Star Press of St. Cloud
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
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Wisconsin has over 200 lost, long ago, and nearly gone places. Why they began, why they faded or died encompasses many issues, many reasons. For Rhonda, her love of lost towns and long ago places began in northern Wisconsin, and in this book, she explores the stories and tales of Wisconsin's... |
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The Holocaust: A New History
LAURENCE REES · PublicAffairs
Pages: 552
Format: Hardcover
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n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda's life was spared and her mother was sent to the gas chambers. Freda only survived because the Allies won the war--the Nazis... |
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This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren · Henry Holt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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The fiery U. S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save it
Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time... |
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