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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
Radley Balko · PublicAffairs
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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This is a tale of two tragedies. At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies per year, five times more than is recommended,... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward · Knopf
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than forty... |
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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Adam Cohen · Penguin Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments... |
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Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
Steven Joseph Ross · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill... |
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The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography
Elaine Showalter · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The first full biography of Julia Ward Howe - the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic and an early and powerful feminist pioneer - a groundbreaking figure in the abolitionist and suffrage movements.Julia Ward (1819-1910) was a heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel... |
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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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The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes
MALACHY TALLACK · Picador
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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In The Un-Discovered Islands, critically acclaimed author Malachy Tallack takes the reader on fascinating adventures to the mysterious and forgotten corners of the map.Be prepared to be captivated by the astounding tales of two dozen islands once believed to be real but no longer on the map.... |
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Douglas Brinkley · Harper
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon."We choose to go to the Moon... |
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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Steve Coll · Penguin Press
Pages: 784
Format: eBook
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Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, bestselling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11Prior... |
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Versailles
Colin Jones · Basic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The vivid story of the creation, renovation, and enduring legacy of the most famous building in France: the palace of VersaillesNothing represents the glorious and fraught history of France quite like the Palace of Versailles. Made famous by the absolutist king Louis XIV, Versailles became... |
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Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
Helen M. Rozwadowski · Reaktion Books
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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Much of human experience can be distilled to saltwater: tears, sweat, and an enduring connection to the sea. In Vast Expanses, Helen M. Rozwadowski weaves a cultural, environmental, and geopolitical history of that relationship, a journey of tides and titanic forces reaching around the globe... |
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Michael Wallis · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion."WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper... |
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American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Alan Taylor · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 681
Format: Print book
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts our thinking about America's founding period.The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous... |
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