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Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War
James Wright · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of the engagement. Or both. Veterans of the war remain largely anonymous figures, accomplices in the mistake. Critically recounting the steps that led to the war, this book does not excuse... |
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The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
Noah Feldman · Random House
Pages: 816
Format: Hardcover
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A surprisingly controversial look at how James Madison redefined the United States in each of his three political "lives" James Madison is revered as "the Father of the Constitution" but rarely described as a radical. Yet Madison fundamentally changed the United States... |
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Grant
RON CHERNOW · Penguin Press
Pages: 1104
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman,... |
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A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War
Thomas Fleming · Da Capo Press; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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By the time John Brown hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper’s Ferry, Northern abolitionists had made him a “holy martyr” in their campaign against Southern slave owners. This Northern hatred for Southerners long predated their objections to slavery. They were... |
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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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Don't Hurry Me Down to Hades: The Civil War In The Words of Those Who Lived It
Susannah ural · Osprey Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades is the story of families enduring the whirlwind of the Civil War, told through the words of famous and ordinary citizens and ranging from the battlefield to the home front, from presidential councils to frontier revivals. The book reveals how Americans... |
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Classic baseball stories
Jeff Silverman · Lyons Press
Format: eBook : Document : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Before multimillion-dollar salaries, luxury boxes, and player strikes became synonymous with professional sports, there existed the belief in playing simply for the love of the game. Nothing captures that spirit better than these twenty classic pieces about America's favorite pastime.... |
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Bounty Hunter 4/3: My Life in Combat from Marine Scout Sniper to MARSOC
JASON DELGADO · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The memoir of Jason Delgado, a US Marine scout sniper and MARSOC's first lead sniper instructor.The fight for Jason Delgado's life and soul began when he was just a boy. He ultimately escaped the death and drugs of a crime-riddled Bronx by way of the United States Marine Corps.... |
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Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
Tom Standage · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Papyrus rolls and Twitter have much in common, as each was their generation’s signature means of “instant” communication. Indeed, as Tom Standage reveals in his scintillating new book, social media is anything but a new phenomenon. From the papyrus letters that Roman statesmen... |
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The Lighthouse: The Mystery of the Eliean Mor Lighthouse Keepers
Keith McCloskey · History Press (SC)
Pages: 223
Format: Paperback
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What really happened to the mysteriously vanished lighthouse keepers - a true story, evocative of The Shining On December 26, 1900, the vessel Hesperus arrived at Eilean Mor in the remote Outer Hebrides with relief lighthouse men and fresh provisions. Staffed by three keepers, the lighthouse... |
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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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Our Year of War: Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided
DANIEL BOLGER · Da Capo Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The gritty and engaging story of two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. One supported the war, the other detested it, but they fought it together.1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands.... |
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