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Jackson, 1964 : and other dispatches from fifty years of reporting on race in America
Calvin Trillin · Random House
Pages: 275
Format: Print book : English : First edition
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From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South.... |
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
William Dalrymple · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the Wests greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With... |
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America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History
Margaret E Wagner · Bloomsbury Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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"A uniquely colorful chronicle of this dramatic and convulsive chapter in American--and world--history. It's an epic tale, and here it is wondrously well told." --David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of FREEDOM FROM FEARFrom August 1914 through March... |
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The End of Memory: A Natural History of Aging and Alzheimer's
Jay Ingram · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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It is a wicked disease that robs its victims of their memories, their ability to think clearly, and ultimately their lives. For centuries, those afflicted by Alzheimer's disease have suffered its debilitating effects while family members sit by, watching their loved ones disappear a little... |
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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
David Maraniss · Simon & Schuster, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 441
Format: Print book
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"Elegiac and richly detailed...[Maraniss] succeeds with authoritative, adrenaline-laced flair...evocative." - Michiko Kakutani for The New York Times As David Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America's path to music and prosperity that was already... |
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I
Richard Ned Lebow · Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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The "Great War" claimed nearly 40 million lives and set the stage for World War II, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. One hundred years later, historians are beginning to recognize how unnecessary it was. In Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!, acclaimed political psychologist... |
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Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Victor Sebestyen · Pantheon
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating biography of the man who helped launch the Russian Revolution, which uses the personal - including Lenin's key relationships with the women in his life - to shed light on the political.Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure,... |
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The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
Jeremy Scahill · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Major revelations about the US government's drone program - bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept expose stunning new details about America's secret assassination policy.When the US government discusses drone strikes publicly, it offers... |
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Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement
Jessie Morgan-Owens · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams -- a slave girl who looked "white" -- whose photograph transformed the abolitionist movement.When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family's freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became... |
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How They Lived
James Ciment · Greenwood
Pages: 1286
Format: Hardcover
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Ideal for history majors, nonhistory majors taking history courses, as well as general readers, this book provides not only the primary documents and artifacts of ordinary people in history, but also annotations that help the reader put them into context and grasp their deeper meaning.*... |
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Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
Keith Lowe · Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize A superb and immensely important book.--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostThe Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years...The end of World War II in Europe is remembered as a time... |
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