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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg · Viking
Pages: 480
Format: Print book |
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In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the present, Nancy Isenberg takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing--if occasionally entertaining--poor white trash... |
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Last crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson · Crown Publishers
Pages: 430
Format: Print book |
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#1 New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the LusitaniaOn May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York,... |
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Politics: Antiquity and Its Legacy
Kostas Vlassopoulos · Oxford University Press
Pages: 168
Format: Book |
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Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which "gave" the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. It is embedded in the assumptions of Western powers who proclaim their faith in the global... |
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Simon Sebag Montefiore · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 744
Format: Print book |
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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas,... |
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The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with the captivating, little-known true story of a group of women whose remarkable contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe In the mid-nineteenth... |
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One Hundred Victories: Special Ops and the Future of American Warfare
Linda Robinson · PublicAffairs; First Edition edition
Format: Book |
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One Hundred Victories is a portrait of how - after a decade of intensive combat operations - special operations forces have become the go-to force for US military endeavors worldwide.Linda Robinson follows the evolution of special ops in Afghanistan, their longest deployment since Vietnam.... |
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Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
James MacGregor Burns · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Kindle Edition |
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Library Journal12/01/2013
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Burns (Woodrow Wilson Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Williams Coll.; Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom) is one of the most respected scholars of American history. One reads his books expecting them to be well... |
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