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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
Ian W. Toll
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New York Times Bestseller
"No one has told the story of World War II in the Pacific, from beginning to bitter end, better than Ian W. Toll. This final volume concludes a brilliant trilogy." -- Alex Kershaw, New York Times best-selling author of The First Wave |
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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
Walter Johnson · Basic Books
Format: Paperback
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From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in The Broken Heart of America, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's... |
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New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story
Winifred Gallagher · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Between 1840 and 1910, over half a million men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, the vast lands that extended from the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean. Survival in this uncharted region required two hard-working partners, compelling women to take on equal... |
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Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
Ann Hagedorn
Format: Hardcover
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George Koval was born in Iowa. In 1932, his parents, Russian Jews who had emigrated because of anti-Semitism, decided to return home to live out their socialist ideals. George, who was as committed to socialism as they were, went with them. It was there that he was recruited by the Soviet... |
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Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
Michael Wolff · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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"I inhaled Landslide, gobbled it up." -- Slate"Wow. Just wow . . ." -- Evening Standard"Cruel, unforgiving, muckraking, scandalous. I couldn't stop reading it." -- The TelegraphWe all witnessed some of the most shocking and confounding political events... |
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The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe
Josh Mitchell · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In 1982, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company's financial documents to review. "You've got to be shitting me," he later told the company's CEO. "This place is a gold mine." Over the next four decades, the student loan industry that Sallie Mae and Congress... |
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The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
Arthur Herman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers - including the most... |
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Highway 61 through Minnesota
Nathan Johnson
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Driving on Highway 61 through Minnesota provides a rare opportunity for one to see virtually every type of landscape in the North Star State. Along the highway's path are pastoral farms and towering bluffs, as well as the largest of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior. There are pictur |
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The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism
Tucker Carlson · ?Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Thirty years ago, Tucker Carlson got his first job out of college fact checking for a quarterly magazine, and he went on to write for many other publications before becoming the primetime Fox News host he is today. In The Long Slide, Tucker delivers a few of his favorite pieces - annotated... |
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