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The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World's Oldest Bible
Chanan Tigay · Ecco Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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A gripping account of one man's quest to find the oldest Bible in the world and solve the riddle of the brilliant, doomed antiquities dealer accused of forging it. In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira--archaeological treasure hunter, inveterate social climber, and denizen of Jerusalem's... |
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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789
Edward Larson · William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important—yet almost always overlooked—chapter of George Washingtons life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first... |
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Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist
Stephen Kurkjian · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history.In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was a big score waiting to happen. Though its collections included priceless artworks... |
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The Gestapo: A History of Horror
Jacques Delarue · Skyhorse
Pages: 372
Format: Paperback
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From 1933 to 1945, the Gestapo was Nazi Germany's chief instrument of counter-espionage, political suppression, and terror. Jacques Delarue, a saboteur arrested by the Nazis in occupied France, chronicles how the land of Beethoven elevated sadism to a fine art. The Gestapo: A History of Horror... |
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Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life
Marcus Anthony Hunter · University of California Press
Pages: 291
Format: Hardcover
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When you think of a map of the United States, what do you see? Now think of the Seattle that begot Jimi Hendrix. The Dallas that shaped Erykah Badu. The Holly Springs, Mississippi, that compelled Ida B. Wells to activism against lynching. The Birmingham where Martin Luther King, Jr., penned... |
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China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Richard Bernstein · Vintage
Format: Paperback
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At the beginning of 1945, relations between America and the Chinese Communists couldn't have been closer. Chinese leaders talked of America helping to lift China out of poverty; Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries. By year's end, Chinese Communist soldiers... |
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Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War
Frances Wood · Pen and Sword
Pages: 194
Format: Hardcover
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The Great War helped China emerge from humiliation and obscurity and take its first tentative steps as a full member of the global community.In 1912 the Qing Dynasty had ended. President Yuan Shikai, who seized power in 1914, offered the British 50,000 troops to recover the German colony... |
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Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
Mcrae. · Oxford University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial... |
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Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty
John B. Boles · Basic Books
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 |
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Driven toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio
Nikki Marie Taylor · Ohio University Press
Pages: 152
Format: Print book
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The story of Margaret Garner - the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery - has inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera. Garner's... |
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Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend
Christo Brand · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Nelson Mandela as he has never been seen before His lifes sacrificesrecounted in vivid detailbytheprison guard with whom hebecame lifelong friends Raised in a multi-ethnic farming community Afrikaner Christo Brand was confused and saddened whenhe first confronted the realities of South... |
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Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
Trevor Royle · Pegasus Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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A vigorous and authoritative history of last major battle fought between Scottish and English forces, ending all hope of the Stuarts reclaiming the throne and forming the bedrock for the creation of the British Empire. The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last... |
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