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A Nation Wholly Free: The Elimination of the National Debt in the Age of Jackson
Carl Lane · Westholme Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Last and Only Time America Was Free of Debt—and How It Led to the Two-Party Political System “An engaging treatment of a topic of perennial concern and frequent misunderstanding, this lucid tale of the brief moment when the United States was debt-free should be on every Congress... |
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Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story
William Doyle · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The most complete history of the U.S. Navy SEALs - from their roots in World War II to their celebrated efforts in the War on Terror - written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community. The book will tie-in with a fall 2014 PBS series.Over the last fifty... |
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Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters
Martin J. S. Rudwick · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it all. But how was it discovered? How was the evidence... |
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Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys Across a Changing Russia
Lisa Dickey · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 325
Format: Print book
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**One of Bustle's 17 of the Best Nonfiction Books Coming in January 2017****One of Men's Journal's 7 Best Books of January**Lisa Dickey traveled across the whole of Russia three times -- in 1995, 2005 and 2015 -- making friends in eleven different cities, then coming back again and again... |
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The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War
Peter F Guardino · Harvard University Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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By focusing on the experiences of ordinary Mexicans and Americans, The Dead March offers a clearer historical picture than we have ever had of the brief, bloody war that redrew the map of North America.Peter Guardino invites skepticism about the received view that the United States emerged... |
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The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943: The War in the West, Volume Two
James Holland · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover
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James Holland's The Rise of Germany, the first volume in his War in the West trilogy, was widely praised for Holland's impeccable research and narrative skills. With a wealth of characters from across the western theatre of World War II, Holland told a captivating story while calling on new research... |
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The Undertaker's Daughter
Kate Mayfield · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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What if the place you called "home" happened to be a funeral home? Kate Mayfield explores what it meant to be the daughter of a small-town undertaker in this fascinating memoir evocative of Six Feet Under and The Help, with a hint of Mary Roach's Stiff.The first time I touched... |
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The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life
JOYCE LEE MALCOM · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and timely re-examination of one of young America's most complicated figures: the war hero turned infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold. Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict... |
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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
Patricia O'Toole · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover
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By the author of acclaimed biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) . The Moralist is a cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity and American... |
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
Wendy Pearlman · Custom House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations... |
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The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria
Alia Malek · Nation Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people... |
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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of
James Bradley · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao's ascent.In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's... |
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