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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
Jon Kukla · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney... |
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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Sujatha Gidla · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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"Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly the most striking work of non-fiction set in India since Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, and heralds the arrival of a formidable new writer." -- The EconomistA... |
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Searching for booker wright.
Yvette Johnson · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In this moving memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to Mississippi to uncover the true story of her grandfather and why he was murdered - a case that became the basis for the documentary Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story, which the Los Angeles Times called "a powerful personal portrait.""Have... |
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Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart
Scott Anderson · Anchor
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a piercing account of how the contemporary Arab world came to be riven by catastrophe since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq.In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become... |
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Tom Clavin · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller!Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before... |
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Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli In His World
ERICA BENNER · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic, myth-shattering story of how Machiavelli, the most misunderstood thinker of all time, fought to change his corrupt world.Since the publication of The Prince five centuries ago, Machiavelli has been associated with political amorality. But that characterization is unfair. In Be Like... |
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Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
Steven Levingston · Hachette Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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From journalist and author Steven Levingston, a gripping, detailed account of the contentious relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. during the tumultuous early years of the Civil Rights movement. Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth... |
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Frances FitzGerald · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 752
Format: Print book
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This groundbreaking book from Pulitzer PrizeÂ-winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America - from the Puritan era to the 2016 presidential election.The evangelical movement began in the revivals of the eighteenth... |
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful... |
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Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
Marianne Monson · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 198
Format: Print book
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Discover the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. As a slave, Clara watched helpless as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter, as a free woman, six decades... |
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Man of the world : the further adventures of bill clinton
Joe Conason · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Veteran political journalist Joe Conason takes readers inside the post-presidential exploits of the perpetually fascinating Bill Clinton - and finds his continuing adventures just as colorful, controversial, and significant as his earlier political career.The extraordinary post-presidency... |
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A Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration,... |
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The King's Bed: Ambition and Intimacy in the Court of Charles II
Don Jordan · Pegasus Books
Pages: 354
Format: Print book
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An intelligent and spirited history of Charles II's dissolute life and surprising legacy, by two veteran historians.To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces... |
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Caliphate: The History of an Idea
Hugh Kennedy · Basic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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In Caliphate, Islamic historian Hugh Kennedy dissects the idea of the caliphate and its history, and explores how it became used and abused today. Contrary to popular belief, there is no one enduring definition of a caliph; rather, the idea of the caliph has been the subject of constant... |
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Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary
Geoffrey Cowan · W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Pages: 404
Format: Print book
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"Cowan has brought to life a fascinating part of TR's story usually left out of the history books. He tells it with verve and suspense, warts and all, his insights deepened by his own impressive background as a democracy activist." -- Adam Hochschild, author of To End All WarsLet... |
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