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Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Susan Southard · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A 2015 Washington Post Notable Book of the Year"A poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bomb's enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and haunting. . . . But the book's biggest achievement is its treatment of the aftershocks... |
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The War Before Independence: 1775-1776
Derek W Beck · Sourcebooks
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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The United States was creeping ever closer to independence. The shot heard round the world still echoed in the ears of Parliament as impassioned revolutionaries took up arms for and against King and country. In this captivating blend of careful research and rich narrative, Derek W. Beck... |
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The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
Kirsten Grind · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers, suffered a crippling bank run. The story of its final, brutal collapse in the autumn of 2008, and its controversial sale to JPMorgan Chase, is an astonishing... |
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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Rebecca Traister · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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* NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION * BEST BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION BY THE BOSTON GLOBE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * NPR * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY *
The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women... |
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The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War
Ben Shephard · Knopf; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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At the end of World War II, long before an Allied victory was assured and before the scope of the atrocities orchestrated by Hitler would come into focus or even assume the name of the Holocaust, Allied forces had begun to prepare for its aftermath. Taking cues from the end of the First... |
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The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
Ernest Freeberg · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edisons incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense... |
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One Summer: America, 1927
Bill Bryson · Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy BookA GoodReads Reader's ChoiceIn One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth... |
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Dorothy Wickenden · Scribner; Reprint edition
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead... |
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Mao: The Real Story
Alexander V. Pantsov · Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to biographers to reveal surprising details about Mao’s rise to power and his leadership in China. Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, the most important... |
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War
William L. Barney · Oxford University Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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A gold mine for the historian as well as the Civil War buff, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War offers a concise, comprehensive overview of the major personalities and pivotal events of the war that redefined the American nation. Drawing upon recent research that has moved beyond... |
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The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats
William Geroux · Viking
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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"Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping."
- Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat
One of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S.... |
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