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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X Kendi · Nation Books
Pages: 582
Format: Print book

WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IN RACE AND CIVIL RIGHTSFINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTIONTHE MOST AMBITIOUS BOOK OF 2016 - The Washington PostA BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2016A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE...

The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

Timothy Egan · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man....

The World of Odysseus

M.I. Finley · NYRB Classics; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social...

Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors

James D. Hornfischer · Bantam; 1ST edition
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

"Son, we’re going to Hell."The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR’s favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific...

When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry

Gal Beckerman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A New Yorker Reviewers FavoritesBeckerman recounts the historic trajectory of this grand assertion of human rights with passionate clarity and pellucid conviction.â€”Cynthia OzickAT THE END OF WORLD WAR II, NEARLY THREE MILLION JEWS WERE TRAPPED INSIDE THE SOVIET UNION. They lived a paradoxâ€”unwanted...

Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History

Marc Leepson · Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The Battle of Monocacy, which took place on the blisteringly hot day of July 9, 1864, is one of the Civil War's most significant yet little-known battles. What played out that day in the corn and wheat fields four miles south of Frederick, Maryland., was a full-field engagement between...

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