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The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
William P. Jones · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant history that goes beyond the dazzling “I Have a Dream” speech to explore the real significance of the massive march and the movement it inspired. It was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March... |
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Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It
Terry McDermott · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The attacks of September 11, 2001, were a calamity on a scale few had imagined possible. In their aftermath, we exaggerated the men who perpetrated the attacks, shaping hasty and often mistaken reporting into caricatures we could comprehend -- monsters and master criminals equal to the enormity... |
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Jenniemae & James: A Memoir in Black and White
Brooke Newman · Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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James Newman was a brilliant mathematician, the man who introduced the mathematical concept "googol" and "googolplex" (aka "google" and "googleplex") to the world, and a friend of Einstein's. He was also a notorious philanderer with an insatiable... |
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How the Right Lost Its Mind
CHARLES J SYKES · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Once at the center of the American conservative movement, bestselling author and radio host Charles Sykes is a fierce opponent of Donald Trump and the right-wing media that enabled his rise.In How the Right Lost Its Mind, Sykes presents an impassioned, regretful, and deeply thoughtful account... |
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Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend
Meryl Gordon · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. |
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Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris
Anne Nelson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A story of courage in the face of evil. The tense drama of Suzanne Spaak who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz. This is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust.Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite... |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou · Random House; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover
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Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas - a world of which most Americans are ignorant. |
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Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female
Ashley Mcguire · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Welcome to the troubling age of sex-denialism - the age of gender-neutral labels, rigidly enforced equality, unisex spaces, and the systematic eradication of sexual difference. In her debut book Sex Scandal, journalist Ashley McGuire investigates the alarming nationwide push to ignore the natural,... |
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Known and Unknown: A Memoir
Donald Rumsfeld · Sentinel HC; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Visit www.rumsfeld.com for more.Discover the enhanced e-book edition of Known and Unknown offering an unprecedented reading experience for a memoir by a major public figure. For web-connected readers, it features more than 500 links to never-before-available original documents from Donald... |
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