|
|
|
 |
|
Leaders: Myth and Reality
Stanley McChrystal · Portfolio
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The bestselling author of Team of Teams dismantles the Great Man theory of leadership, by profiling leaders whose real stories defy their legends.Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has studied leadership his whole adult life, from his first day at West Point to his most recent work... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Liberated Spirits: Two Women Who Battled Over Prohibition
Hugh Ambrose · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A provocative new take on the women behind a perennially fascinating subject--Prohibition--by bestselling author and historian Hugh Ambrose.The passage of the 18th Amendment (banning the sale of alcohol) and the 19th (women's suffrage) in the same year is no coincidence. These... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Napoleon: A Life
Adam Zamoyski · Basic Books
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The definitive biography of Napoleon, revealing the true man behind the legend"What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Christina Thompson · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life
Diarmaid MacCulloch · Viking
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in government, based on a decade of original archival research, which reveals at last Cromwell's role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn"This a book that - and it's not often you can say this... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Saving Bravo: The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
Stephan Talty · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Impeachment: An American History
JonMeacham · Modern Library
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Four experts on the American presidency examine the three times impeachment has been invoked - against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton - and explain what it means today.Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
