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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
SARAH SMARSH · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.
During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling... |
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Wise Men and Their Tales: Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Masters
Elie Wiesel · Schocken; 1 edition
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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In Wise Men and Their Tales, a master teacher gives us his fascinating insights into the lives of a wide range of biblical figures, Talmudic scholars, and Hasidic rabbis.The matriarch Sarah, fiercely guarding her son, Isaac, against the negative influence of his half-brother Ishmael; Samson,... |
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Cleveland in World War I
Dale Thomas · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 127
Format: Print book
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Cleveland's contribution to the war front began on May 25, 1917, with the Lakeside Hospital Unit becoming the first American detachment to land in Europe. On the home front, the war accelerated the growth of Cleveland, which became the fifth-largest city in the nation by the end of the decade.... |
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Where Divers Dare: The Hunt for the Last U-Boat
Randall S Peffer · Berkley Calibre
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Shadow Divers, this is the gripping true account of the search for German U-boat U-550, the last unfound, diveable wreck of a U-boat off the United States coast, and the battle in which it was sunk. On April 16, 1944, the SS Pan Pennsylvania was torpedoed and sunk... |
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City of sedition : the history of New York during the Civil War
John Strausbaugh · Twelve
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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In a single definitive narrative, CITY OF SEDITION tells the spellbinding story of the huge-and hugely conflicted-role New York City played in the Civil War.
No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort, or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men,... |
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The American Future: A History
Simon Schama · Ecco
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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"With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny ... .A book of beautiful writing, peppered with wisecracks, slashed with rapier thrusts." - Philadelphia Inquirer A De Tocqueville for the 21st century, Simon... |
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Joseph J. Ellis · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer-winning American historian Joseph Ellis tells an old story in a new way, with a freshness at once colorful and compelling. The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country's founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed... |
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