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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
Adam Hochschild · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book |
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From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed For three crucial years in the 1930s,... |
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Arkady Ostrovsky · Viking
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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WINNER OF THE 2016 ORWELL PRIZE "FINANCIAL TIMES" BOOK OF THE YEAR A highly original narrative history by "The Economist s" Moscow bureau chief that does for modern Russia what Evan Osnos did for China in "Age of Ambition" The end of communism and breakup of the Soviet... |
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Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
John Guy · Viking, 2016.
Pages: 448
Format: Print book |
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A groundbreaking reconsideration of our favorite Tudor queen, Elizabeth is an intimate and surprising biography that shows her at the height of her power by the bestselling, Whitbread Award-winning author of Queen of Scots. Elizabeth was crowned at twenty-five after a tempestuous childhood... |
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Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table
Ellen Wayland-Smith · Picador
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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A fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion---only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century, into a successful silverware company and a model of buttoned-down corporate propriety.In... |
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America Is Not Post-Racial: Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, and the 44th President
Algernon Austin · Praeger, 2015.
Pages: 170
Format: Print book |
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This book is the first in-depth examination of the 25 million Americans with the most intense hatred of President Obama -- arguably the most Republican-friendly of recent Democratic presidents -- and what the mindsets of these "Obama Haters" teach us about race and ethnicity in America... |
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The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
Laura Cumming · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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From one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story - part art history and part mystery - of a Velazquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.When John Snare, a nineteenth-century provincial... |
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A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings
Dan Cruickshank · Firefly Books, 2015.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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"Architecture is an all-embracing adventure without end," declares Dan Cruickshank in the introduction to A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings. Cruickshank's selection represents key moments in architectural history and it is truly global in scope. It includes many of the world's... |
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Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Michael V. Hayden · Penguin Press, 2016.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book |
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An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both CIA and NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk... |
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The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II
Winston Groom · National Geographic Society
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover |
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Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall - from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest victory: leading the allies to victory in World War II. These three remarkable men-of-arms... |
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Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made
Dominic A Pacyga · The University of Chicago Press,
Pages: 256
Format: eBook |
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From the minute it opened - on Christmas Day in 1865 - it was Chicago's must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the Union Stock Yard. There they got a firsthand... |
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Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties
Karen L Ishizuka · Verso
Pages: 270
Format: Print book |
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A narrative history of the movement that turned "Orientals" into Asian Americans Until the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there were no Asian Americans. There were only isolated communities of mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos lumped together as "Orientals."... |
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Fifty Foods That Changed the Course of History
Bill Price · Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover |
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A beautifully presented guide to the foods that have had the greatest impact on human civilization. Though many of the foods in this book are taken for granted and one (the mammoth) is no longer consumed, these foods have kept humans alive for millennia and theirs is a fascinating story.... |
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Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion
Susan Jacoby · Pantheon Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover |
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In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul... |
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Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865
Patrick Rael · University of Georgia Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a "house divided against itself," as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick... |
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1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History
Jay Winik · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 639
Format: Print book |
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New York Times bestselling author Jay Winik brings to life in gripping detail the year 1944, which determined the outcome of World War II and put more pressure than any other on an ailing yet determined President Roosevelt.It was not inevitable that World War II would end as it did, or that... |
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Mourning Lincoln
Martha Hodes · Yale University Press
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover |
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The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons.... |
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The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young
Somini Sengupta · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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A penetrating, personal look at contemporary India -- the world's largest democracy at a moment of transition.Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning thirty years later as the bureau chief for The New York Times, she found a vastly different... |
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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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