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In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
Jack Goldsmith · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O'Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa's disappearance on behalf... |
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster - and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.
Early in the morning... |
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
S. C. Gwynne · Scribner
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbinding, epic account of the dramatic conclusion of the Civil War.
The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of that... |
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William Penn: A Life
Andrew R. Murphy · Oxford University Press
Pages: 488
Format: Hardcover
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On March 4, 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn a charter for a new American colony. Pennsylvania was to be, in its founder's words, a bold "Holy Experiment" in religious freedom and toleration, a haven for those fleeing persecution in an increasingly intolerant England... |
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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Erika Lee · Basic Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impactThe United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika... |
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Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
Mollie Hemingway · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In this definitive deep dive into the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, two women with extraordinary behind-the-scenes access - The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway and Judicial Crisis Network senior counsel Carrie Severino - reveal what really happened... |
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No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History
Gail Collins · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America, by the beloved New York Times columnist.
"You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad--for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship... |
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Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death
Anthony Everitt · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait.
More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built... |
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When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America's Fight for Religious Freedom
Asma T. Uddin · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A galvanizing look at constitutional freedoms in the United States through the prism of attacks on the rights of American Muslims. Religious liberty lawyer Asma Uddin has long considered her work defending people of all faiths to be a calling more than a job. Yet even as she seeks... |
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The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
Keith Payne · Viking
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"The Broken Ladder is an important, timely, and beautifully written account of how inequality affects us all." - Adam Alter, New York Times bestselling author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank Pink
A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical,... |
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Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence
Harlow Giles Unger · Da Capo Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author and Founding Fathers' biographer Harlow Giles Unger comes the astonishing biography of the man whose pen set America ablaze, inspiring its revolution, and whose ideas about reason and religion continue to try men's souls.Thomas Paine's... |
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Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning
Elliot Ackerman · Penguin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award Finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
"War hath determined us ..." - John Milton, Paradise Lost
Toward the beginning... |
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Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz · Basic Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight
Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals... |
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Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
Andrew Roberts · Viking
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique strengths--and weaknesses--shaped the course of human history, from the bestselling, award-winning author of Churchill and Napoleon
Taking us from the French... |
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Eric Foner · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize- winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three... |
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Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
Lara Maiklem · Liveright
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A quixotic journey through London's past, Mudlark plumbs the banks of the Thames to reveal the stories hidden behind the archaeological remnants of an ancient city. Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert "mudlarker" Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in the art of seeking.... |
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
H. W. Brands · Basic Books
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West
In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas... |
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