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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
Sasha Abramsky · Nation Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition
Format: Book
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Selected as A Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book ReviewFifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance.... |
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Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History
William J. Bernstein · Grove Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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William J. Bernstein’s A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, an Economist and Financial Times Best Book of the Year, placed him firmly among the top flight of historians like Jared Diamond and Bill Bryson, capable of distilling major trends and reams of information into... |
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Mapping the First World War: The Great War Through Maps from 1914 to 1918
Peter Chasseaud · HarperCollins UK
Format: Hardcover
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Follow the conflict of World War I from 1914-1918 through a unique collection of historical maps, expert commentary, and photographs  More than 150 maps, some previously unpublished, are used here to demonstrate how World War I was fought around the world. Small scale maps show country... |
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History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
Brad Meltzer · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Kindle Edition
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It's an irresistible combination: Brad Meltzer, a born storyteller, counting down the world's most intriguing unsolved mysteries. And to make this richly illustrated book even richer, each chapter invites the reader along for an interactive experience through the addition of removable... |
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Bush
Jean Edward Smith · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 808
Format: Print book
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Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself - most disastrously in invading Iraq - and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious... |
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The midnight assassin : panic, scandal, and the hunt for America's first serial killer
Skip Hollandsworth · Thorndike Press
Format: Print book
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A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885 In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884,... |
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George Washington's secret six : the spy ring that saved the American Revolution
Brian Kilmeade · Penguin Group US
Format: eBook
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-- --Brian Kilmeade When General George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over. Instead, Washington rallied--thanks in large part to a little-known, top-secret group called the Culper Spy Ring. Washington... |
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1913 in search of the world before the Great War
Charles Emmerson · PublicAffairs
Format: eBook
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"Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspective narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous... |
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Joseph J. Ellis · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer-winning American historian Joseph Ellis tells an old story in a new way, with a freshness at once colorful and compelling. The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country's founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed... |
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The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark
Trae Crowder · Atria Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The Liberal Rednecks - a three-man stand-up comedy group doing scathing political satire - celebrate all that's good about the South while leading the Redneck Revolution and standing proudly blue in a sea of red.Smart, hilarious, and incisive, the Liberal Rednecks confront outdated... |
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Whistlestop: Reporting the Stories that Make Campaign History
John Dickerson · Twelve
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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From Face the Nation moderator and Slate political columnist John Dickerson, WHISTLESTOP tells the stories behind the stories of the most memorable and even forgotten moments in American presidential campaign history.The stakes are high. The characters full of striving and ego. Presidential... |
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Stephen Kinzer · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous... |
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A History of the World in 12 Maps
Jerry Brotton · Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating look at twelve maps—from Ancient Greece to Google Earth—and how they changed our world In this masterful study, historian and cartography expert Jerry Brotton explores a dozen of history’s most influential maps, from stone tablet to vibrant computer screen.... |
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