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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer · Flatiron Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that... |
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Normandy '44: D-Day and the Retaking of Europe
James Holland · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the West -- the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. The story is a familiar one -- and yet, approaching the 75th... |
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Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
TIM MOHR · Algonquin Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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"In case you weren't sure just how political music, fashion, and a certain attitude can be: read this book. Burning Down the Haus is wonderful." - Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed "The true story of how teenage kicks turned into political opposition. With meticulous research... |
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Christina Thompson · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than... |
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Exiled: The Last Days of Sam Houston
Ron Rozelle · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 205
Format: Hardcover
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After an undisputed record of political achievement--leading the decisive battle for Texas independence at San Jacinto, serving twice as president of the Republic of Texas, twice again as a United States senator after annexation, and finally as governor of Texas--Sam Houston found himself... |
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Jared Diamond · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes... |
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Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I
George Morton-Jack · Basic Books
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War IWhile their story is almost always overlooked, the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who served the British Empire in World War I played a crucial role in the eventual Allied victory. Despite... |
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The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
Susan Page · Twelve
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.3px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff}... |
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr. · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind.The abolition of slavery... |
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The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival
Kate Williams · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria, a new history of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I that reveals how the most important relationship of their life -- their friendship -- changed them forever. Elizabeth and Mary were cousins and queens, but eventually... |
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Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation
ROBERT TSAI · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A path-breaking account of how Americans have used innovative legal measures to overcome injustice -- and an indispensable guide to pursuing equality in our time.Equality is easy to grasp in theory but often hard to achieve in reality. In this accessible and wide-ranging work, American... |
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The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts
Joan Biskupic · Basic Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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An incisive biography of the Supreme Court's enigmatic Chief Justice, taking us inside the momentous legal decisions of his tenure so far John Roberts was named to the Supreme Court in 2005 claiming he would act as a neutral umpire in deciding cases. His critics argue he has been anything... |
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If You Ask Me: Essential Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt · Atria Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Experience the timeless wit and wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt in this annotated collection of candid advice columns that she wrote for more than twenty years.In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on a new career as an advice columnist. She had already transformed the role of first lady with... |
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Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times
Scott Pelley · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring memoir from the front lines of history by award-winning 60 Minutes correspondent Scott PelleyDon't ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, what's the meaning of you?With this provocative question, Truth Worth Telling introduces us to unforgettable people who discovered the meaning... |
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Ancient Rome: An Illustrated History
NIGEL RODGERS · Lorenz Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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The first half of this magnificent book focuses on the political and military history of Rome. The assassination of Julius Caesar, Nero fiddling while Rome burns, the building of Hadrian's Wall - the truth behind these and many other events are explored in this account of the rise and fall... |
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Tony Horwitz · Penguin Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the American South in the 1850s, as he too searches for common ground in a dangerously riven nation.On the eve of the Civil War, an up-and-coming newspaper, the New York Times, sent a young travel... |
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The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968
George Howe Colt · Scribner
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House comes a story in the tradition of The Boys in the Boat about an unforgettable group of young athletes who battled in the legendary Harvard-Yale football game of 1968 amidst the sweeping currents of one of the most... |
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