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The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present
David Runciman · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern... |
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The Story of Egypt : The Civilization That Shaped the World
Joann Fletcher · Pegasus Books
Pages: 496
Format: Print book
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The story of the world's greatest civilization -- spanning 4,000 years of history -- full of epic stories, spectacular places, and an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes, villains, and pioneers. The story of the world's greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that has shaped... |
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Inside the White House: Stories From the World's Most Famous Residence
Noel Grove · National Geographic
Pages: 351
Format: Hardcover
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In collaboration with the White House Historical Association, National Geographic presents this authoritative overview of America's first home featuring never-before published stories and photographs. Organized by theme, discover what makes the White House tick--from its beginnings to the modern... |
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Our Lost Constitution: The Willful Subversion of America's Founding Document
Mike Lee · Sentinel
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The still-unfolding story of America's Constitution is a history of heroes and villains - the flawed visionaries who inspired and crafted liberty's safeguards, and the shortsighted opportunists who defied them. Those stories are known by few today.In Our Lost Constitution, Senator... |
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Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga
Jane C. Beck · University of Illinois Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved"--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century... |
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Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
Carrie Gibson · Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria onto what is today San Salvador, in the Bahamas, and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire's Crossroads, British... |
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Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas
Gavin Menzies · William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America?The iconoclastic... |
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Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
Timothy F. Geithner · Crown Publishers
Pages: 580
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerLos Angeles Times BestsellerStress Test is the story of Tim Geithner's education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama's secretary of the Treasury, Timothy... |
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Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor
Clinton Romesha · Dutton Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the fourteen hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of "Black Hawk Down "by Mark Bowden and "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell. "'It doesn't get better. ' To us, that... |
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After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace
A. J. Langguth · Simon & Schuster; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruction, which set back black Americans and isolated the South for a century.With Lincoln's assassination, his "team of rivals,"... |
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Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
Richard Rhodes · Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb - the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it.The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary... |
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Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I
E R Mayhew · Oxford University Press
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover
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The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The bullets hit fast and hard, went deep... |
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Craig Steven Wilder · Bloomsbury Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution’s complex and contested involvement in slavery—setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown’s troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony... |
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