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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
Daniel J Sharfstein · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 613
Format: Hardcover
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The epic clash of two American legends -- their brutal war and a battle of ideas that defined America after Reconstruction.Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most... |
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Chris Whipple · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president... |
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Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors
George W. Bush · Crown/Archetype
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant collection of oil paintings and stories by President George W. Bush honoring the sacrifice and courage of America's military veterans. With Forewords by former First Lady Laura Bush and General Peter Pace, 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Growing out of President... |
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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
Drew Philp · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class Michigan family, withdraws from the comforts of life on a university campus in search of a place to live where he can make a difference. He sets his sights on Detroit, the failed metropolis of abandoned buildings, widespread... |
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World War I and America: Told By the Americans Who Lived It
A. Scott Berg · Library Of America
Pages: 988
Format: Print book
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For the centenary of America's entry into World War I, A. Scott Berg presents a landmark anthology of American writing from the cataclysmic conflict that set the course of the 20th century. Few Americans appreciate the significance and intensity of America's experience of World War I, the global... |
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Colour Bar: A United Kingdom
A Susan Williams · Penguin Books
Pages: 407
Format: Print book
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London, 1945: the heir apparent to the kingship of Bechuanaland (later Botswana) arrives in Britain to complete his legal studies. Seretse Khama, an urbane 24-year-old, educated like Mandela at Fore Hare, is welcomed into the elite world of the Inner Temple in London. But then, in 1947,... |
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Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons
Elizabeth Brown Pryor · Viking
Pages: 496
Format: Print book
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From an award-winning historian, an engrossing look at how Abraham Lincoln grappled with the challenges of leadership in an unruly democracy An awkward first meeting with U.S. Army officers, on the eve of the Civil War. A conversation on the White House portico with a young cavalry sergeant... |
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All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
Donald Stratton · William Morrow
Pages: 306
Format: Print book
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The extraordinary first and only memoir by a survivor of the USS Arizona, published in conjunction with the seventy-fifth anniversary of Pearl Harbor. An unforgettable and moving story of tragedy, heroism, resilience, and redemption that is sure to become an enduring document of American... |
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Eleanor and hick : the love affair that shaped a first lady
Susan Quinn · Penguin Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American historyIn 1932, as her husband... |
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Truevine : a strange and troubling tale of two brothers in jim crow america
Beth Macy · Little
Pages: 420
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia.... |
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Angela Merkel: Europe's Most Influential Leader
Matthew Qvortrup · The Overlook Press
Pages: 367
Format: Hardcover
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The illuminating and in-depth biography of Angela Merkel, using exclusive new sources and research to tell how the daughter of a clergyman from East Germany rose to become one of the most powerful women in the worldThis is the fascinating tale of Angela Merkel's political ascent, in which... |
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What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
David Wood · Little
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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From Pulitzer Prize-Âwinning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars. Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book,... |
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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
Kathleen DuVal · Random House
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America's... |
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The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy
Jean Kennedy Smith · Harper
Pages: 262
Format: Print book
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In this evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy, offers an intimate and illuminating look at a time long ago when she and her siblings, guided by their parents, laughed and learned a great deal under one roof.Prompted... |
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
Bret Baier · William Morrow
Pages: 346
Format: Print book
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"THE BEST BOOK ON EISENHOWER TO APPEAR IN A VERY LONG TIME"*: BRET BAIER'S "RIVETING ACCOUNT"†OF IKE'S FINAL MISSION IS "A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT"‡ THAT IS "DESTINED TO TAKE ITS PLACE AS ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY"§January... |
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Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough · Oxford University Press 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported... |
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Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
Douglas Smith · Farrar
Pages: 832
Format: Print book
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On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figureA hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels,... |
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 624
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic - from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle,... |
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