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The Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House
Thomas F. Schaller · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Once the party of presidents, the GOP in recent elections has failed to win convincing national majorities. Republicans have lost four of the last six presidential races and lost the popular vote in five of the six. In the lone Republican victory, the party incumbent won—during wartime—by... |
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Bill O'Reilly · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 323
Format: Print book
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The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin DugardAutumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese... |
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From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town
Ingrid D Rowland · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash. Ironically, the calamity that proved so lethal for Pompeii's inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman... |
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In the Name of Gucci: A Memoir
Patricia Gucci · Crown Pub
Pages: 304
Format: Book
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The gripping family drama and never-before-told love story surrounding the rise and fall of the late Aldo Gucci, the man responsible for making the legendary fashion label the powerhouse it is today, as told by his daughter. Patricia Gucci was born a secret: the lovechild whose birth could... |
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Good Catholics: The Battle over Abortion in the Catholic Church
Patricia Miller · University of California Press
Format: Print book
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Good Catholics tells the story of the remarkable individuals who have engaged in a nearly fifty-year struggle to assert the moral legitimacy of a pro-choice position in the Catholic Church, as well as the concurrent efforts of the Catholic hierarchy to suppress abortion dissent and to translate... |
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Indian Affairs in Colonial New York: The Seventeenth Century
Allen W Trelease · Ira J. Friedman Division
Pages: 379
Format: Book
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First published in 1960, Indian Affairs in Colonial New York remains the only one-volume study of Indian-European relations in seventeenth-century New York. In the first half of this book, Allen W. Trelease describes the Dutch period that followed Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage and details... |
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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
Rebecca Fraser · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history.... |
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Such Troops as These: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson
Bevin Alexander · Berkley Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a fresh and cogent analysis of Stonewall Jackson's military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson's strategies had been adopted. The Civil War of 1861-65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural... |
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Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
Lawrence Wright · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle... |
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 624
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic - from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle,... |
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai · Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An NPR Best Book of the YearIn May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper's... |
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