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American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Alan Taylor · W W Norton
Pages: 736
Format: Print book |
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts our thinking about America's founding period.The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous... |
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Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
Zephyr Teachout · Harvard Univ Press
Pages: 376
Format: Print book |
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When Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King's portrait, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to "corrupt" Franklin by clouding his judgment or altering his attitude toward the French in subtle psychological... |
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Forging the Shield: The U.S. Army in Europe, 1951-1962
Donald A. Carter · Department of the Army; None, First edition |
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This illustrated book that includes tables, charts, and maps primarily discusses the role of USAREUR acronym abbreviation for US Army Europe) in rearming and training the new German Army spans several years and is perhaps the Army's single greatest contribution toward maintaining... |
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Ralph Young · NYU Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Dissent The History of an American Idea examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan... |
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Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
Betty Boyd Caroli · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 463
Format: Print book |
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"Marriage is the most underreported story in political life and yet is often the key to its success. This is the idea driving a revealing new portrait of Lady Bird as the essential strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, peacemaker, and ballast for Lyndon...[A] biography of a political... |
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Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath
Paul Ham · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover |
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In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War. More than 100,000 people... |
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The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
Simon Goodman · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover |
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The passionate, gripping, true story of one man's single-minded quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family, their beloved art collection, and to restore their legacy.Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps.... |
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The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991
Robert Service · PublicAffairs
Pages: 688
Format: Hardcover |
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The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician had foreseen that an epoch defined by games of irreconcilable one-upmanship between the world's most heavily armed superpowers would end in their lifetimes.... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg · Viking
Pages: 480
Format: Print book |
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In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the present, Nancy Isenberg takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing--if occasionally entertaining--poor white trash... |
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