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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Sean Wilentz · W. W. Norton; First Edition edition
Pages: 1044
Format: Hardcover
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A grand political history in a fresh new style of how the elitist young American republic became a rough-and-tumble democracy.In this magisterial work, Sean Wilentz traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. One of our finest writers... |
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Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State
Randolph B Campbell
Format: Print book
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In Gone to Texas, historian Randolph Campbell ranges from the first arrival of humans in the Panhandle some 10,000 years ago to the dawn of the twenty-first century, offering an interpretive account of the land, the successive waves of people who have gone to Texas, and the confli |
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The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama's War on the Republic
David Limbaugh · Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Obama has been a one-man wrecking ballWhen it comes to our prosperity, our freedom tradition, and our constitutional government, President Barack Obama has been the great destroyer—knocking down the free-market economy and principles of limited government that have made America the envy... |
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Homeland Security Ate My Speech: Messages from the End of the World
Ariel Dorfman · OR Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Combining elements of memoir, political theory, and literary criticism, Ariel Dorfman's Homeland Security Ate My Speech is an emotionally raw yet measured assessment of the United States after the election of Donald Trump. Dorfman, writing with a bifurcated Latino-American identity,... |
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful... |
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Native American Weapons
Colin F. Taylor · University of Oklahoma Press
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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Featuring 155 color photographs and illustrations, Native American Weapons surveys weapons made and used by American Indians north of present-day Mexico from prehistoric times to the late nineteenth century, when European weapons were in common use. Colin F. Taylor skillfully describes... |
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Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves
Sana Butler · Lyons Press; 1st edition
Format: Book
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"Sugar of the Crop" is the story of an unprecedented quest to find the last surviving children of slaves. In a revealing search from Los Angeles to New Orleans, from Virginia nursing homes to Alabama churches, Sana Butler provides a fascinating picture of African American life... |
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Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists
VANESSA NEUMANN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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International smuggling has exploded, deepening and accelerating the collaboration of transnational organized crime and terrorist groups. Attacks like the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan shootings in Paris, the kidnappings and murders by Boko Haram in Nigeria, and the San Bernardino shooting... |
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Warfare in the Ancient World
John Winthrop Hackett · Checkmark Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Warfare in the Ancient World offers a complete, authoritative, and accessible record of how war was waged in antiquity. Coverage extends to all regions of the ancient world and includes period-by-period analyses of all facets of warfare, including the organization, tactics, armor, and weaponry... |
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Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations
John Bolton · Threshold Editions; First Edition edition
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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The son of a Baltimore fireman and the first person in his family to go to university, with scholarships to Yale College and Yale Law School, John Bolton candidly recounts his sixteen month tenure as US Ambassador to the United Nations, his Senate confirmation battle, and the highlights... |
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