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67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence
Howard B Means · Da Capo Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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At mid-day on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio National Guard faced off at opposite ends of the grassy campus Commons at Kent State University. Just after noon, the Guard moved out. Twenty-five minutes later, Guardsmen launched a 13-second,... |
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Lincoln on Leadership for Today: Abraham Lincoln's Approach to Twenty-First-Century Issues
Don T Phillips · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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The author of the classic bestseller Lincoln on Leadership answers the question: How would President Lincoln handle the pressing crises of our modern world? Abraham Lincoln is recognized as one of history's finest leaders, a great president when the United States was under tremendous strain.... |
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House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
Craig Unger · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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House of Trump, House of Putin offers the first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia that ultimately helped win Trump the White House. It is a chilling story that begins in the 1970s, when Trump made his first... |
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Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist
Jennet Conant · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant - a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War - told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant.James Bryant Conant was a towering figure. He was at the center... |
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The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right
Michael J. Graetz · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 468
Format: Print book
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A fresh and revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not a "moderate" or transitional court, as often portrayed, but a conservative one that still defines the constitutional landscape we live in today.When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency... |
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Shattered : inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign
Jonathan Allen · Crown
Pages: 464
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"It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation... |
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When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
MATTHEW RESTALL · Ecco
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital... |
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Man's Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War
Philip F Gura · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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Banks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. As financial crises always have, the Panic of 1837 drew forth a plethora of reformers who promised to restore America to greatness.... |
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When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
Jeffrey A Engel · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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Based on unprecedented access to previously classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers, here is the untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of history - the end of the Cold War. The end of the Cold War was the greatest shock to international... |
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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
ZEYNEP TUFEKCI · Yale University Press
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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A firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements' greatest strengths and frequent challenges To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti-Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weaknesses... |
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Tyrant
STEPHEN GREENBLATT · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny.... |
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