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First: Sandra Day O'Connor
Evan Thomas · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives - by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas."She's... |
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Imani Perry · Beacon Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short... |
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Women: Our Story
DK · DK
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Reexamining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the pivotal but less well-known roles women have played in culture and society.Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events in women's history--from early matriarchal societies... |
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Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
Elliott J. Gorn · Oxford University Press
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
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The world knows the story of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy supposedly flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who worked behind the counter of a country store, while visiting family in Mississippi. Three days later, his mangled body was recovered... |
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency
Dan Abrams · Hanover Square
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times bestseller!A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2018A Suspense Magazine Best Book of 2018A Mental Floss Best Book of 2018A USA Today Top 10 Hot Book for Summer"Makes you feel as if you are watching a live camera riveted on a courtroom more... |
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Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England
Kate Hubbard · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The critically acclaimed author of Serving Victoria brilliantly illuminates the life of the little-known Bess of Hardwick - next to Queen Elizabeth I, the richest and most powerful woman in sixteenth-century England.Aided by a quartet of judicious marriages and a shrewd head for business,... |
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The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath
Garrett Peck · Pegasus Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath -- the Red Scare, race riots, women's suffrage, and Prohibition. The Great War's bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten... |
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Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World
Jason Farman · Yale University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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A celebration of waiting throughout history, and of its importance for connection, understanding, and intimacy in human communication We have always been conscious of the wait for life?changing messages, whether it be the time it takes to receive a text message from your love, for a soldier's... |
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