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Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House
Robert Dallek · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Presidential historian Dallek analyzes the brain trust whose contributions to the successes and failures of Kennedy's administration--including the Bay of Pigs, civil rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam--were indelible. The author delivers a striking portrait of a leader whose... |
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Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution
Thomas P. Slaughter · Hill & Wang
Pages: 487
Format: Hardcover
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An important new interpretation of the American colonists' 150-year struggle to achieve independence"What do we mean by the Revolution?" John Adams asked Thomas Jefferson in 1815. "The war? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an effect and consequence of it."... |
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The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945
R J Overy · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 562
Format: Hardcover
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The ultimate history of the Allied bombing campaigns in World War IITechnology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Day and night, Britain and the United States unleashed massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize... |
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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
Mark Kurlansky · Bloomsbury
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings... |
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THE ENEMIES WITHIN: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress
Trevor Loudon · Pacific Freedom Foundation, 2013. ©2013
Pages: 689
Format: Print book
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"The Enemies Within" is designed to show American voters exactly how modern communism works and how it impacts on your life, every single day. Just how do the communists win big on things like Obamacare and immigration "reform," which go completely against the wishes... |
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American Notes and Pictures From Italy
Charles Dickens · Oxford University Press
Pages: 454
Format: Hardcover
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Dickens' account of his first visit to America and his letters written during a stay in Italy describe cities from Boston and St Louis to Rome and Naples |
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Icecutter's Daughter, The
Tracie Peterson · Bethany House Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling Author Unveils New Historical SeriesMerrill Krause longs for a family of her own but shes bound by a promise to her dying mother to care for her father and older brothers until they no longer need her She enjoys being part of the family business harvesting ice during the brutal... |
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Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain
Charlotte Higgins · Overlook Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the captivating and haunting exploration of the remnants of an empire What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Sometimes on foot,... |
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A Country Called Prison: Mass Incarceration and the Making of a New Nation
Mary D. Looman · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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The United States is the world leader in incarcerating citizens. 707 people out of every 100,000 are imprisoned. If those currently incarcerated in the US prison system were a country, it would be the 102nd most populated nation in the world. Aside from looking at the numbers, if we could... |
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick · Viking
Pages: 302
Format: Print book
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From the author of the forthcoming book, Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller, soon to be a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard, premiering on December 11, 2015 "With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail... |
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Operation Massacre
Rodolfo Walsh · Seven Stories Press
Format: Paperback
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1956. Argentina has just lost its charismatic president Juán Perón in a military coup, and terror reigns across the land. June 1956 eighteen people are reported dead in a failed Peronist uprising. December 1956 sometime journalist, crime fiction writer, studiedly unpoliticized chess aficionado... |
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The Hunt for Hitler's Warship
Patrick Bishop · Regnery History; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winston Churchill called it the Beast. It was said to be unsinkable. More than thirty military operations failed to destroy it. Eliminating the Tirpitz, Hitlers mightiest warship, a 52,000-ton behemoth, became an Allied obsession. In The Hunt for Hitlers Warship, Patrick Bishop tells the epic... |
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Pages: 267
Format: Print book
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When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations.... |
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