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Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother
Craig Shirley · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author offers an intimate portrait of America's original first family in this groundbreaking major biography of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, filled with rich anecdotes and stories that reveal the father of our country in a fresh... |
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
Lewis, Michael · W W NORTON & CO
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The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waited to brief the administration's transition team on the agency it would soon be running. Nobody appeared. Across all departments the stories were the same: Trump appointees were few and far between;... |
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
Jeremy Popkin · Basic Books
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern worldThe principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World... |
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So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo · Seal Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling... |
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The Wisconsin Story: 150 People, Places, and Turning Points that Shaped the Badger State
Dennis McCann · Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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The Wisconsin Story: 150 People, Places, and Turning Points that Shaped the Badger State offers readers engaging vignettes about everything Wisconsin. From portraits of significant figures like Robert and Belle La Follette, Golda Meir, and Edna Ferber, to stories of important events like... |
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A Warning
Anonymous · Twelve
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.
On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare step... |
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With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace
Nikki Haley · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing, dramatic, deeply personal book about the most significant events of our time, written by the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is widely admired for her forthright manner ("With all due respect, I don't get confused") , her sensitive... |
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The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
Gareth Russell · Atria Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In this original and meticulously researched narrative history, the author of the "stunning" (The Sunday Times) Young and Damned and Fair uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift... |
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Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir
Deirdre Bair · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art.
In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist... |
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She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Erica Armstrong Dunbar · 37 Ink
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in American history - Harriet Tubman - a heroine whose fearlessness and activism still resonates today.
Harriet Tubman is best known... |
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