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Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir
Cherríe Moraga · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back, CherrÃe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother's decline, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora.
Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir is, at its core,... |
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Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times
Bill Moyers · New Press, The; First Edition edition
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Bill Moyers's vision for America in this crucial election year. "Our nation can no more survive as half democracy and half oligarchy than it could survive 'half slave and half free.'—from Moyers on America Over the years millions of Americans have invited Bill... |
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The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
Max Hastings · Harper
Pages: 610
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II - intelligence - showing how espionage... |
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Stephen Kinzer · Wiley
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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This is the first full-length account of the CIA's coup d'etat in Iran in 1953 - a covert operation whose consequences are still with us today. Written by a noted New York Times journalist, this book is based on documents about the coup (including some lengthy internal CIA reports)... |
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The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur
Scott S Greenberger · Da Capo Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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When President James Garfield was shot, no one in the United States was more dismayed than his Vice President, Chester Arthur. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and his fellow citizens but by his own conscience.From his promising start, Arthur had become... |
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Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
Eric Rauchway · Hill and Wang; 1 edition
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover
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How an assassin, a dead President, and Theodore Roosevelt defined the Progressive Era.When President McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist... |
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
Chris Matthews · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball.
With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look... |
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The Road to Camelot: Inside the Kennedy Campaign
Tom Oliphant · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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"A must-read for fans of presidential history." - USA TODAY
"Splendid ... a gripping, authoritative campaign history." - The Boston Globe
"Terrific ... a tougher and more balanced account of the long campaign than anybody's written... |
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Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design
BESS WILLIAMSON · NYU Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A history of design that is often overlooked -- until we need it Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you've benefited... |
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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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Evicted
Matthew Desmond · Large Print Press
Pages: 687
Format: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION In Evicted, Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as "wrenching and revelatory" (The Nation) , "vivid... |
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An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
Alex Kotlowitz · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods.
The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly... |
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