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A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow
Mike Farris · W W Norton
Pages: 332
Format: Print book
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Lies, murder, and a legendary courtroom battle threaten to tear apart the Territory of Hawaii.In September of 1931, Thalia Massie, a young naval lieutenant's wife, claims to have been raped by five Hawaiian men in Honolulu. Following a hung jury in the rape trial, Thalia's mother,... |
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Proof: Photographs from Four Generations of a Texas Family
Byrd M Williams IV · University of North Texas Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The Byrd Williams Collection at the University of North Texas contains more than 10,000 prints and 300,000 negatives, accumulated by four generations of Texas photographers, all named Byrd Moore Williams. Beginning in the 1880s in Gainesville, the four Byrds photographed customers in their... |
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The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
Randall Fuller · Viking
Pages: 294
Format: Print book
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A compelling portrait of a unique moment in American history when the ideas of Charles Darwin reshaped American notions about nature, religion, science and race"A lively and informative history." - The New York Times Book ReviewThroughout its history America has been torn in two by debates... |
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They Are All My Family: A Daring Rescue in the Chaos of Saigon’s Fall
John P. Riordan · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Published for the fortieth anniversary of the final days of the Vietnam War, this is the suspenseful and moving tale of how John Riordan, an assistant manager of Citibanks Saigon branch, devised a daring plan to save 106 Vietnamese from the dangers of the Communist takeover. Riordanwho... |
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A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
Robert F Worth · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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In 2011, a wave of revolution spread through the Middle East as protesters demanded an end to tyranny, corruption, and economic decay. From Egypt to Yemen, a generation of young Arabs insisted on a new ethos of common citizenship. Five years later, their utopian aspirations have taken on a darker... |
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The Mother Court: Tales of Cases that Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court
James D. Zirin · American Bar Association
Format: Book
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This is the first book to chronicle the history of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the most influential District court in the United States, from the perspective of a practicing attorney who has argued many cases before some of its most esteemed judges. It gives... |
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A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific
Hua Hsu · Harvard University Press
Pages: 276
Format: Print book
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Who gets to speak for China? During the interwar years, when American condescension toward "barbarous" China yielded to a fascination with all things Chinese, a circle of writers sparked an unprecedented public conversation about American-Chinese relations. Hua Hsu tells the story... |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half... |
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Whistlestop: Reporting the Stories that Make Campaign History
John Dickerson · Twelve
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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From Face the Nation moderator and Slate political columnist John Dickerson, WHISTLESTOP tells the stories behind the stories of the most memorable and even forgotten moments in American presidential campaign history.The stakes are high. The characters full of striving and ego. Presidential... |
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Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery: Where War Comes Home
Robert M. Poole · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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While On Hallowed Ground chronicled the history of the cemetery, Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery is the powerful contemporary biography of a five-acre plot where many of those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been laid to rest alongside service members from earlier wars. Gifted... |
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Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution
Peter Ackroyd · Thomas Dunne Books; 1st US Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first... |
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Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic
Michael D. White · New York University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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No policing tactic has been more controversial than stop and frisk, whereby police officers stop, question and frisk ordinary citizens, who they may view as potential suspects, on the streets. As Michael White and Hank Fradella show in Stop and Frisk, the first authoritative history and analysis... |
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Liberation Square: Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation
Ashraf Khalil · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A definitive, absorbing account of the Egyptian revolution, written by a Cairo-based Egyptian-American reporter for Foreign Policy and The Times (London), who witnessed firsthand Mubarak's demise and the country's efforts to build a democracy In early 2011, the world’s... |
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