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Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery
Tom Cotton · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, an intimate and inspiring portrait of Arlington National Cemetery's Old Guard, the official ceremonial unit of the U.S. Army and Americas oldest infantry unit, dating to 1784: part history of the Old Guard, part memoir of Senator Cotton's time as a platoon... |
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
Brenda Wineapple · Random House
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president." - Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated... |
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
KARA COONEY · National Geographic
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient... |
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The Age of Walls
TIM MARSHALL · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Tim Marshall, the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography, analyzes the most urgent topics in global politics and international relations by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populations.The globe has always been a world of walls,... |
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On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
Hampton Sides · Doubleday
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean WarOn October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander... |
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Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
MICHAEL PALIN · Greystone Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"Beyond terrific. I didn't want it to end." - Bill BrysonDriven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter Michael Palin explores the world of HMS Erebus, last seen on an ill-fated voyage... |
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Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
Lisa McCubbin · Gallery Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and insightful biography of Betty Ford, the groundbreaking, candid, and resilient First Lady and wife of President Gerald Ford, from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Presidents and Mrs. Kennedy and Me.Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer... |
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It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America
Reniqua Allen · Nation Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Young Black Americans have been trying to realize the promise of the American Dream for centuries and coping with the reality of its limitations for just as long. Now, a new generation is pursuing success, happiness, and freedom -- on their own terms. In It Was All a Dream, Reniqua Allen... |
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge,... |
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Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal
Eric Rauchway · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history--and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatism When Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, they represented not only different political parties but vastly different... |
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A History of France
JOHN JULIUS NORWICH · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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John Julius Norwich -- called a "true master of narrative history" by Simon Sebag Montefiore -- returns with the book he has spent his distinguished career wanting to write, A History of France: a portrait of the past two centuries of the country he loves best. Beginning with... |
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Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives
Jane Brox · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the "dazzling epic"* Brilliant, a compelling history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind - in prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own lives Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox... |
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From Santa Anna to Selena: Notable Mexicanos and Tejanos in Texas History since 1821
Harriett Denise Joseph · University of North Texas Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Author Harriett Denise Joseph relates biographies of eleven notable Mexicanos and Tejanos, beginning with Santa Anna and the impact his actions had on Texas. She discusses the myriad contributions of Erasmo and Juan Seguín to Texas history, as well as the factors that led a hero of the Texas... |
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Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future
Jason Phillips · Oxford University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades before the first shots at Fort Sumter. People forecasted a frontier filibuster, an economic... |
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Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War
Eric Dezenhall · Twelve
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they should have been anything but.In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence... |
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