|
My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
Howard Jones · Oxford University Press
Pages: 504
Format: Hardcover
|
|
On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division) , entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
Gail Lumet Buckley · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 353
Format: Print book
|
|
In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley - daughter of actress Lena Horne - delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African-American family from Civil War to Civil Rights.Beginning with her great-great grandfather Moses Calhoun, a house slave... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
J Kael Weston · Alfred A Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 608
Format: Print book
|
|
A powerfully written firsthand account of the human costs of conflict, The Mirror Test asks that we as a nation look in the mirror and address hard questions about America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
1916: A Global History
Keith Jeffery · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
|
|
So much of the literature on the First World War centers on the trench warfare of the Western Front, and these were essential battlegrounds. But the war was in fact truly a global conflict, and by focusing on a sequence of events in 1916 across many continents, historian Keith Jeffery's... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854: Volume I
William W. Freehling · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow · The Penguin Press
Pages: 808
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
Timothy F. Geithner · Crown Publishers
Pages: 580
Format: Hardcover
|
|
New York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerLos Angeles Times BestsellerStress Test is the story of Tim Geithner's education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama's secretary of the Treasury, Timothy... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Great City Maps
Dk. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
|
|
A beautifully illustrated history of the world's most celebrated historical city maps, from the hubs of ancient civilization to sprawling modern mega-cities, created in association with the Smithsonian Institution.Great City Maps explores and explains 30 of the world's greatest... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The End of White Christian America
Robert P Jones · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
|
|
Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) , challenges us to grasp the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality - that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation.For most of our nation's history, White Christian America (WCA)... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
Craig Nelson · Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Men and the award-winning biographer of Thomas Paine comes the first complete history of the Atomic Age, a brilliant, magisterial account of the men and women who uncovered the secrets of the nucleus, brought its power to America, and ignited... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas
Steven Poole · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
|
|
A brilliant and groundbreaking argument that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling ideas from the past rather than starting from scratch - from The Guardian columnist and contributor to The Atlantic.Innovation is not always as innovative as it may seem.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
