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Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
GEMMA HARTLEY · HarperOne
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A rousing call to arms, packed with surprising insights, that explores how carrying "the mental load" - the thankless day-to-day anticipating of needs and solving of problems large and small - is adversely affecting women's lives and feeding gender inequality, and shows the way forward... |
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Capitalism in America: A History
Alan Greenspan · Penguin Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of wealth and innovation the world has ever seen.From even the start of his fabled... |
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On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
Hampton Sides · Doubleday
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean WarOn October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander... |
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Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin
Joseph Kelly · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth. We all know the great American origin story. It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious... |
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These Truths: A History of the United States
JILL LEPORE · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 960
Format: Hardcover
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In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas -- "these truths," Jefferson called them -- political equality,... |
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Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West
John Boessenecker · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives.The phrase "riding shotgun" was no teenage game to the men who guarded stagecoaches and trains... |
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
ANDREW ROBERTS · Viking
Pages: 1088
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark reconsideration of the iconic war leader, based on extensive new material--from private letters to war cabinet meetings-- by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War.When we seek an example of unalloyed courage, the man who comes to mind is Winston... |
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Becoming
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE. · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American... |
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Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946
GARY GIDDINS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 736
Format: Hardcover
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"The best thing to happen to Bing Crosby since Bob Hope," (WSJ) Gary Giddins presents the second volume of his masterful multi-part biography Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through the dark... |
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A History of France
JOHN JULIUS NORWICH · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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John Julius Norwich -- called a "true master of narrative history" by Simon Sebag Montefiore -- returns with the book he has spent his distinguished career wanting to write, A History of France: a portrait of the past two centuries of the country he loves best. Beginning with... |
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
MAX HASTINGS · Harper
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United... |
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Modern Egypt: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Bruce K. Rutherford · Oxford University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
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With almost every news broadcast, we are reminded of the continuing instability of the Middle East, where state collapse, civil wars, and terrorism have combined to produce a region in turmoil. If the Middle East is to achieve a more stable and prosperous future, Egypt-which possesses the region's... |
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1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
James P P Horn · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in handAlong the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course... |
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American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us
Joseph J Ellis · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history is a ceaseless... |
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