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The Heartland: An American History
Kristin L. Hoganson · Penguin Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A history of a quintessentially American place - the rural and small town heartland -- that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world.When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area... |
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In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy
Frederic Martel · Bloomsbury Continuum
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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A startling account of corruption and hypocrisy at the heart of the Vatican. In the Closet of the Vatican exposes the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church today. This brilliant piece of investigative writing is based on four years' authoritative research, including... |
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The Bootleggers of Montana Mountain: A Rural New Jersey Community's Prohibition Experience
Richard H Dalrymple Jr · Ragged Ridge Press
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
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The history of a community is its identity, which sets it apart from all others. Prohibition was a tumultuous time when all communities in the US faced the consequences of a national law which, in effect, legislated morality. Whereas temperance, defined as voluntary self-restraint in alcohol... |
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Tin Cans and Greyhounds: The Destroyers that Won Two World Wars
Clint Johnson · Regnery History
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For men on destroyer-class warships during World War I and World War II, battles were waged "against overwhelming odds from which survival could not be expected." Those were the words Lieutenant Commander Robert Copeland calmly told his crew as their tiny, unarmored destroyer... |
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor
Evan Thomas · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives - by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas."She's... |
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The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
Masih Alinejad · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing... |
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Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
Lucy Worsley · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era Perhaps one of the best known of the English monarchs, Queen Victoria forever shaped a chapter of English history, bequeathing her name to the Victorian age. In Queen Victoria, Lucy Worsley introduces this iconic woman in a new light.... |
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