Back History | February Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  History  
The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory

Julie Checkoway · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 415
Format: Print book

For readers of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat comes the inspirational, untold story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers.In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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

"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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance

Paul Strathern · Pegasus Books
Pages: 430
Format: Print book

A vivid, dramatic, and authoritative account of perhaps the most influential family in Italian history: the Medici.A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism

Benjamin Schwartz · Overlook Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A nuclear weapon explodes in a major American city and no one can prove who is responsible. The devastation is horrifying, but even more alarming is the limited options available for the United States government to respond. What happens next? In Right of Boom, national security specialist...
Read More check catalog
 
 
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

Tyler Anbinder · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 768
Format: Print book

A defining American story, never before told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House

Jesse Holland · LP
Pages: 225
Format: Print book

THE INVISIBLES: Slavery Inside The White House and How It Helped Shape America is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White...
Read More check catalog
 
 
U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign, March-November 1864

Raymond K. Bluhm Jr. · Dept. of the Army; None, First edition
Format: Print book

The Shenandoah Valley Campaign, March–November 1864, by Raymond K. Bluhm Jr., covers Union and Confederate military operations in the Shenandoah Valley region of southwestern Virginia, and in Maryland and Washington, D.C., during the last full year of the conflict. Bluhm describes...
Read More check catalog
 
 
50 Great American Places: Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.

Brent D. Glass · Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

A one-of-a-kind guide to fifty of the most important cultural and historic sites in the United States guaranteed to fascinate, educate, and entertain - selected and described by the former director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.From Massachusetts to Florida...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency

Bill O'Reilly · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the bestselling team of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard comes Killing Reagan, a page-turning epic account of the career of President Ronald Reagan that tells the vivid story of his rise to power -- and the forces of evil that conspired to bring him down. Just two months into his presidency,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Who Rules the World?

Noam Chomsky · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rightsIn an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris

Tilar J. Mazzeo · Harper
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hôtel on Place Vendôme is the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Hôtel Ritz - a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance - from Tilar J. Mazzeo,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg · Viking
Pages: 460
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestseller"Formidable and truth-dealing...necessary." -The New York Times"With the election looming, this eye-opening investigation into our country's entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant." -O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis

Simon Goodman · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

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....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Berlin Now: The City After the Wall

Peter Schneider · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe's most charismatic and enigmatic cityIt isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris; its museums do not hold more treasures than those...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Operation Sea Lion

Leo McKinstry · The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway and the Low Countries were all under occupation. Only Britain stood in the way of the complete triumph, and Hitler planned a two-pronged offensive -- a blistering aerial bombardment followed by a land...
Read More check catalog