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The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Seymour M Hersh · Verso
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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In 2011, a group of Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbotabad and killed Osama Bin Laden, the man the United States had been chasing since before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost Obama's first term and played a major part in his re-election... |
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A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Masaji Ishikawa · AmazonCrossing
Pages: 172
Format: Hardcover
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The harrowing true story of one man's life in - and subsequent escape from - North Korea, one of the world's most brutal totalitarian regimes.Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when... |
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Alexander Hamilton: A Life
Willard Sterne Randall · Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pages: 476
Format: Paperback
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From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean Island of Nevis to his untimely death in a duel with his old enemy Aaron Burr in 1804, Alexander Hamilton, despite his short life, left a huge legacy. Orphaned at thirteen and apprenticed in a counting house, Hamilton learned... |
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
Candice Millard · Doubleday
Pages: 381
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime... |
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America: Imagine a World without Her
Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, New York, NY
Pages: 289
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh... |
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The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen
Sean Sherman · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Here is real food - our indigenous American fruits and vegetables, the wild and foraged ingredients, game and fish. Locally sourced, seasonal, "clean" ingredients and nose-to-tail cooking are nothing new to Sean Sherman, the Oglala Lakota chef and founder of The Sioux Chef. In his breakout... |
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
Adam Hochschild · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed For three crucial years in the 1930s,... |
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What Happened
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 494
Format: Hardcover
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"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down." - Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What HappenedFor the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals... |
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Franken · Twelve
Pages: 406
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Bestseller"Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." - Louise Erdrich, The New York Times p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px... |
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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
FRANKLIN FOER · Penguin Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence. Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information. This rapid change has imperiled... |
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Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free
John Ferling · Bloomsbury Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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No event in American history was more pivotal-or more furiously contested-than Congress's decision to declare independence in July 1776. Even months after American blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord, many colonists remained loyal to Britain. John Adams, a leader of the revolutionary... |
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