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First: Sandra Day O'Connor
Evan Thomas · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives - by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas."She's a hero for our time,... |
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The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · Dk Publishing
Pages: 360
Format: Print book
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Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative guide chronicles America's fight against Communism in southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, and comprehensively explores the people, politics, events, and lasting effects of the Vietnam War.Filled with more... |
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Courage Is Contagious: To Michelle Obama, with Love
Nicholas Haramis (Editor) · Lenny
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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A collection of never-before-published essays celebrating a First Lady whose impact will be felt for years to come, featuring a stunning array of acclaimed contributors Michelle Obama's legacy transcends categorization; her cultural imprint is as nuanced as it is indelible. She used her time... |
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RAF: The Birth of the World's First Air Force
RICHARD OVERY · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A great historian's masterful account of the origins of air power in the RAF.The birth of the Royal Air Force during World War I marked a pivotal moment in modern military and political history. With Europe's western front frozen in a bloody stalemate of trench warfare, both sides sought... |
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Denial: Holocaust History on Trial
Deborah E Lipstadt · Ecco
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." The following year, after Lipstadt's book was published in the United Kingdom, Irving... |
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Woodstock: 50 Years of Peace and Music
Daniel Bukszpan · Imagine
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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Giftable 50th anniversary commemorative with never-before-seen images and original interviews. Hear from performers and attendees in their own voices! Featuring Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and The Grateful Dead, as well as unsung audience members and folks behind the scenes. This compendium... |
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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
Haider Warraich · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 324
Format: Print book
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There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today s modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation... |
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
ARTHUR PH D HERMAN · Harper
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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In 1917, Arthur Herman examines one crucial year and the two figures at its center who would set the course of modern world history: Woodrow Wilson and Vladimir Lenin. Though they were men of very different backgrounds and experiences, Herman reveals how Wilson and Lenin were very much... |
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge,... |
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Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
Marianne Monson · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 198
Format: Print book
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Discover the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. As a slave, Clara watched helpless as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter, as a free woman, six decades... |
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Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter
Barbara Leaming · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was the incandescent life-force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father's acknowledged "favorite of all the children" and her brother Jack's "psychological twin." She was the Kennedy of Kennedys, sure of her privilege, magnetically... |
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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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Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government
Larry P Arnn · Thomas Nelson Inc
Pages: 376
Format: Print book
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A penetrating look at the necessity of constitutional limits upon government and exceptional men to lead those governments, uniquely taken by overlaying the life and writings of Winston Churchill with the American experiment. Churchill faced his own death, often and bravely. He led millions... |
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