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Oh Florida! : how America's weirdest state influences the rest of the country
Craig Pittman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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Oh, Florida! That name. That combination of sounds. Three simple syllables, and yet packing so many mixed messages. To some people, it's a paradise. To others, it's a punchline. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these - and, more importantly, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing... |
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The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It:
Aaron Charles Sheehan-Dean · The Library of America
Pages: 886
Format: Hardcover |
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This final installment of the highly acclaimed four-volume series traces events from March 1864 to June 1865. It provides an incomparable portrait of a nation at war with itself, while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union to final victory, and slavery and secession... |
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Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
Philipp Blom · Basic Books (AZ)
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover |
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When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order... |
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Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story
William Doyle · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover |
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The most complete history of the U.S. Navy SEALs - from their roots in World War II to their celebrated efforts in the War on Terror - written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community. The book will tie-in with a fall 2014 PBS series.Over the last fifty... |
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The American Thriller
Gary Hoppenstand · Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY
Pages: 222
Format: Print book |
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An exploration of the authors and literary works that identify with the American thriller, this volume examines the prominent themes and stories. It presents a variety of new essays on this genre in which "ordinary" heroes are faced with an enemy set on destroying them or something... |
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"They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide
Ronald Grigor Suny · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by ninety percent--more... |
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The Girl Who Escaped ISIS: This Is My Story
Farida Khalaf · Atria Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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A rare and riveting first-hand account of the terror and torture inflicted by ISIS on young Iraqi Yazidi women, and an inspiring personal story of bravery and resilience in the face of unspeakable horrors.In the early summer of 2014, Farida Khalaf was a typical Yazidi teenager living with... |
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Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682
Robert Goodwin · Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover |
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The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries of Western supremacy across the globe and usher in an era of transatlantic exploration that eventually gave rise to the modern world. It was a time of discovery and adventure, of great political and social change--it was a time... |
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Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
Charles Slack · Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover |
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When the United States government passed the Bill of Rights in 1791, its uncompromising protection of speech and of the press were unlike anything the world had ever seen before. But by 1798, the once-dazzling young republic of the United States was on the verge of collapse partisanship... |
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The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
Michael J Klarman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 880
Format: Print book |
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Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,... |
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Heaven's Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal
Jack Kelly · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking... |
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