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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Jane Sherron De Hart · Knopf
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover
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The first full life - private, public, legal, philosophical - of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews... |
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Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis
Gerri Chanel · Icon Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley. So began the biggest evacuation of art and antiquities in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the French raced to move... |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval N Harari · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic... |
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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
Jon Meacham · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A celebration of America and the music that inspired people and illuminated eras, from the Revolutionary War to the present, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and Grammy winner Tim McGraw. From "The Star Spangled Banner" to "Born in the U.S.A.," Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw... |
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The Death of Truth
MICHIKO KAKUTANI · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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A stirring and incisive manifesto on America's slide away from truth and reason. Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics. In The Death of Truth, she connects... |
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The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
CROWN. · Crown
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest houses - and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled... |
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Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
ELI SASLOW · Doubleday
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mindDerek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand... |
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The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
Alex Kershaw · Dutton Caliber
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat. Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day's most perilous missions.... |
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rick Atkinson · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American RevolutionRick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply... |
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The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
DAN JONES · Viking
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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"Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read." - The Times, Book of the YearA New York Times bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar is "a fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate... |
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
Margaret O'Mara · Penguin Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest... |
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Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
Anna Merlan · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond.American society has always been fertile ground for conspiracy theories, but with the election of Donald Trump,... |
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Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America
Jared Cohen · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Accidental Presidents looks at eight men who came to the office without being elected to it. It demonstrates how the character of the man in that powerful seat affects the nation and world.Eight... |
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Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro
Thomas Maier · Skyhorse
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
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From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of Masters of Sex, a True Story of Espionage and Mobsters, Based on the Never-Before-Released JFK Files, and Optioned by Warner Bros.Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plots ever - with CIA agents,... |
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The Escape Artists
NEAL BASCOMB · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism." - David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon Neal Bascomb, New York Times best-selling author,... |
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King Edward VIII: An American Life
Ted Powell · Oxford University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Before he fell in love with Wallis Simpson, Edward VIII had fallen in love with America. As a young Prince of Wales, Edward witnessed the birth of the American century at the end of the First World War and, captivated by the energy, confidence, and raw power of the USA as it strode onto... |
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The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace
PAUL THOMAS CHAMBERLIN · Harper
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decade-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century alongside the two World Wars, and reveals how bloody the "Long... |
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