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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
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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... |
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Matter of honor
Anthony Summers · Harpercollins
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore his lost honor - and clear... |
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
Wendy Pearlman · Custom House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations... |
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The Holocaust: A New History
LAURENCE REES · PublicAffairs
Pages: 552
Format: Hardcover
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n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda's life was spared and her mother was sent to the gas chambers. Freda only survived because the Allies won the war--the Nazis... |
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At War on the Gothic Line: Fighting in Italy, 1944-45
Christian Jennings · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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In the autumn of 1944, as Patton's army paraded through Paris, another Allied force was gathering in southern Italy. Spearheaded by over 100,000 American troops, this vast, international army was faced with a grim task -- break The Gothic Line, a series of interconnected German fortifications... |
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Alligator Candy: A Memoir
David Kushner · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: eBook
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From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other premier magazines, Alligator Candy is a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love.David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Florida... |
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Pale Horse: Hunting Terrorists and Commanding Heroes with the 101st Airborne Division
Jimmy Blackmon · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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Pale Horse is the remarkable never-before-told true story of an army aviation task force during combat in the Afghan War, told by the commanding officer who was there. Set in the very valleys where the attacks of 9/11 were conceived, and where ten Medals of Honor have been earned since... |
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Joe Gould's teeth
Jill Lepore · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 235
Format: Print book
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"A "New Yorker" staff writer and Harvard historian chronicles the discovery of Joe Gould's long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time," and of the violence, betrayals, and madness that led to its concealment,"--NoveList.From New Yorker staff writer... |
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Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
SHERYLL CASHIN · Beacon Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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How interracial love and marriage changed history, and may soon alter the landscape of American politics.Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime:... |
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Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles
John Mack Faragher · W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Pages: 624
Format: Print book
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"John Mack Faragher is one fine writer, bringing early L.A. to life as the setting for all manner of horrific killings and gruesome justice. Eternity Street will keep you up at night ruminating on the roots of American violence." -- Richard Wightman Fox, University of Southern... |
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Tom Clavin · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller!Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before... |
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Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
Leigh Fought · Oxford University Press
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
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In his extensive writings, Frederick Douglass revealed little about his private life. His famous autobiographies present him overcoming unimaginable trials to gain his freedom and establish his identity-all in service to his public role as an abolitionist. But in both the public and domestic... |
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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Bill James · Scribner
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.Between 1898 and 1912, families... |
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