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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
SIMON WINCHESTER · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future. The rise of manufacturing... |
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We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy
Caseen Gaines · Plume Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the wildly successful and beloved Back to the Future trilogy, just in time for the 30th anniversary Long before Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled through time in a flying DeLorean, director Robert Zemeckis, and his friend and writing partner Bob Gale,... |
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Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery
Tom Cotton · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, an intimate and inspiring portrait of Arlington National Cemetery's Old Guard, the official ceremonial unit of the U.S. Army and Americas oldest infantry unit, dating to 1784: part history of the Old Guard, part memoir of Senator Cotton's time as a platoon... |
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Woodstock Live: 50 Years
Julien Bitoun · Cassell
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A complete chronological account of Woodstock, hour by hour, performance by performance. Released to coincide with its 50th anniversary and with a foreword by festival co-founder, Michael Lang.
Foreword by Woodstock co-founder, Michael Lang.
3 days. 33 concerts. 2 deaths. 2 births.... |
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Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
Richard Rhodes · Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb - the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it.The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary... |
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It Wasn't Like Nothing: One Marine's Adventure in Vietnam
Thomas J Hynes · iUniverse
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Marines who fought the North Vietnamese Army weren't interested in God, country, and Mom's apple pie: They were focused on fighting for a cause that was never fulfilled. Thomas Hynes, a Marine Corps second lieutenant who led the 2nd Platoon, Lima Company, Third Battalion, Fifth... |
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The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
Aaron Bobrow-Strain · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system? When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida's mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas,... |
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Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
Brian Matthew Jordan · Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking investigation examining the fate of Union veterans who won the war but couldnt bear the peace. For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that... |
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The Rise & Fall of Nashville Lawyer Tommy Osborn: Kennedy Convictions
William L. Tabac · The History Press
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
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Tommy Osborn's star was rising. The young Nashville lawyer led a band of Tennessee reformers to victory in a landmark Supreme Court case. Hailed by Chief Justice Earl Warren as the most important of his career, Baker v. Carr's "one man, one vote" mandate revolutionized... |
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story... |
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