|
The Italian Americans: A History
Maria Laurino · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
|
|
This gorgeous companion book to the PBS series illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history. In this richly researched, beautifully designed and illustrated volume, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
CASEY SHERMAN · PublicAffairs
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
|
From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours, the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
During an infamous thirteen-day stretch... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings
Philip Caputo · Chamberlain Bros.
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
|
Thirteen seconds passed. Sixty-seven shots were fired. One nation watched . . .
On May 4, 1970, Ohio's Kent State University was in chaos following President Richard Nixon's announcement that the U.S. bombing of Cambodia would continue, with student protesters on one side and the National... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Strom Thurmond's America
Joseph Crespino · Hill and Wang; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Do not forget that 'skill and integrity' are the keys to success." This was the last piece of advice on a list Will Thurmond gave his son Strom in 1923. The younger Thurmond would keep the words in mind throughout his long and colorful career as one of the South's... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
No Human Is Illegal: An Attorney on the Front Lines of the Immigration War
J. J. Mulligan Sepulveda · Melville House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
|
The perfect author on one of today's hottest topics-- an immigration reform lawyer's journalistic memoir of being on the front lines of deportation.
NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL is a powerful document of one lawyer's fight for those seeking a better life in America against its ever-tightening... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
ANONYMOUS. · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 228
Format: Print book
|
|
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
1941: The Year Germany Lost the War
Andrew Nagorski · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Bestselling historian Andrew Nagorski takes a fresh look at the decisive year 1941, when Hitler's miscalculations and policy of terror propelled Churchill, FDR, and Stalin into a powerful new alliance that defeated Nazi Germany. In early 1941, Hitler's armies ruled most of Europe.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History
Charles Bracelen Flood · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 521
Format: Print book
|
|
At the beginning of 1864, the Civil War was far from won; terrible and bloody Union setbacks and casualties lay ahead. Abraham Lincoln was facing a re-election battle as some northern Democrats were ready to start peace talks that could leave the Confederacy a separate slaveholding American... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston
Gerard O'Neill · Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the bestselling coauthor of Black Mass, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured twentieth-century Boston. Rogues and Redeemers tells the hidden story of Boston politics--the cold-blooded ward bosses, the smoke-filled rooms, the larger-than-life... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
|
|
In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis. Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians
Jake Page · Free Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The story of the American Indians has, until now, been told as a 500-year tragedy, a story of violent and fatal encounters with Europeans and their diseases, followed by steady retreat, defeat, and diminishment. Yet the true story begins much earlier, and its final recent chapter adds a major... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America
David Pietrusza · Union Square Press
Pages: 520
Format: Print book
|
|
Indelibly, we recall the iconic newsphoto: jubilant underdog Harry Truman brandishing his copy of the Chicago Tribune proclaiming "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." But far, far more exists to 1948's election that a single inglorious headline and a stunning upset victory. Award-winning... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
