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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 896
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.
As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
Michael Klare · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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All Hell Breaking Loose is an eye-opening examination of climate change from the perspective of the U.S. military.
The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change -- still linked, for many people, with polar... |
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Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II
Bret Baier · William Morrow
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 bestselling author of Three Days in Moscow and anchor of Fox News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier, a gripping history of the secret meeting that set the stage for victory in World War II - the now-forgotten 1943 Tehran Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston... |
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The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom
Stephen Tomkins · Pegasus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative and immersive history of the far-reaching events in England that led to the sailing of the Mayflower.2020 brings readers the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower -- the ship that took the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World. It is a foundational event in American... |
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The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
Gareth Russell · Atria Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In this original and meticulously researched narrative history, the author of the "stunning" (The Sunday Times) Young and Damned and Fair uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift... |
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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
David Zucchino · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community -- a bustling port city with a thriving African American middle class and a government made up of Republicans and Populists, including black aldermen, police officers, and magistrates. But across the state... |
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Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America
Debbie Cenziper · Hachette Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two.
In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling... |
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The Season: A Social History of the Debutante
Kristen Richardson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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In this enthralling history of the debutante ritual, Kristen Richardson sheds new light on contemporary ideas about women and marriage. Kristen Richardson, from a family of debutantes, chose not to debut. But as her curiosity drove her to research this enduring custom, she learned... |
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Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS
Azadeh Moaveni · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Based on years of immersive reporting, Pulitzer finalist Azadeh Moaveni has written a gripping account of thirteen women as they joined, endured, and, in some cases, escaped life in the Islamic State.
Among the many books trying to understand the terrifying rise of ISIS, none has given... |
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MacArthur's Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941–51
Bill Yenne · Osprey Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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General Douglas MacArthur ended World War II controlling one of the most powerful air forces in the world. This new history traces its development from its origins in the Philippines through to its eventual victory in the skies over Japan and its key role in the Korean War. General Douglas... |
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Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
Paul Krugman · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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An accessible, compelling introduction to today's major policy issues from columnist, best-selling author, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise,... |
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
Jerry Mitchell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases - decades after they had gotten away with murder.
On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers.... |
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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
Christopher Leonard · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
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Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard's Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world... |
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The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians
David M. Rubenstein · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians.
In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history... |
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May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
Imani Perry · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was embraced... |
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Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity
Vladimir K Bukovsky · Ninth of November
Pages: 727
Format: Paperback
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Bukovksy's Judgment in Moscow (updated in 2001) , details Soviet meddling in Western politics in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the activities of the USSR in the Third World and the regime's suppression of dissent at home. The information comes... |
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