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The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America
Kenneth Pollack · Random House; First edition. edition
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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In his highly influential book The Threatening Storm, bestselling author Kenneth Pollack both informed and defined the national debate about Iraq. Now, in The Persian Puzzle, published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis, he examines the behind-the-scenes... |
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The Lost Cause: The Trials of Frank and Jesse James
James P. Muehlberger · Westholme Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The True Story Behind the Legendary Outlaw Gang, a Civil War Vendetta, and the Forgotten Court Documents That Helped Seal Their FateOn a dreary December 7, 1869, two strangers entered the Daviess County Savings and Loan in Gallatin, Missouri. One of the men asked the cashier for change... |
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The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story
Frances Kiernan · W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The fabulous life of Brooke Astor, a pioneer of philanthropy and for decades a luminary of New York society.Hers is a story out of Edith Wharton. After a disastrous early marriage, Brooke Astor wedded the notoriously ill-tempered Vincent Astor, who died in 1959. In a highly publicized courtroom... |
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More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Sebastian Mallaby · Penguin Press HC, The
Format: Hardcover
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The first authoritative history of hedge funds-from their rebel beginnings to their role in defining the future of finance. Based on author Sebastian Mallaby's unprecedented access to the industry, including three hundred hours of interviews, More Money Than God tells the inside story... |
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Our Year of War: Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided
DANIEL BOLGER · Da Capo Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The gritty and engaging story of two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. One supported the war, the other detested it, but they fought it together.1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands.... |
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Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City
Eric W Sanderson · Abrams
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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On September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set eyes on the land that would become Manhattan. It's difficult for us to imagine what he saw, but for more than a decade, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson has been working to do just that. Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is the astounding... |
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Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History
ROY ADKINS · Viking
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain's Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France - an overlooked key to the British loss in the American RevolutionFor more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded,... |
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An American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783
William M. Fowler Jr. · Walker & Company; Book Club Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Most people believe the American Revolution ended in October, 1781, after the battle of Yorktown; in fact the war continued for two more traumatic years. During that time, the Revolution came closer to being lost than at any time in the previous half dozen. The British still held New York,... |
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America's Boardwalks: From Coney Island to California
James Lilliefors · Rutgers University Press
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
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Gaudy, intoxicating, bright, loud, lucrative, and altogether American: they are our nation's boardwalks. The boardwalk was first invented for utilitarian reasons-so that beach-goers could stroll along the shore in their evening wear without tracking sand into train cars or hotel lobbies.... |
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