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Bush
Jean Edward Smith - Simon & Schuster
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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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric Foner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of Americas history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Jeff Guinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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2018 Edgar Award Finalist - Best Fact Crime By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre - the largest murder-suicide in American history.In the 1950s,... |
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Peter Cozzens - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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Bringing together a pageant of fascinating characters including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of other military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud, The Earth is Weeping - lauded by BOOKLIST as "a... |
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Weather Bomb 1913: Life and Death on the Great Lakes
Bruce Kemp - Blurb
Format: Paperback
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On the night of November 9, in 1913, the greatest hurricane ever to sweep the Great Lakes roared across the fresh water seas sinking 12 big ships and killing more than 260 people. For the first time, author Bruce Kemp has pulled together a compelling tale of the storm with interviews of survivors,... |
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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first black presidency, from "one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today" (Vanity Fair) . Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race... |
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Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time
LEILA JANAH - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Despite trillions of dollars in Western aid, 2.8 billion people worldwide still struggle to survive every day. We need a better solution. Founder and CEO of Samasource Leila Janah shows that poverty is a problem we can solve - not just hope to alleviate - by giving work. When asked if they'd... |
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Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight: Indian Views
John H Monnett - University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Fetterman Fight ranks among the most crushing defeats suffered by the U.S. Army in the nineteenth-century West. On December 21, 1866 - during Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) - a well-organized force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors annihilated... |
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
STEPHEN GREENBLATT - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Stephen Greenblatt -- Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World -- investigates the life of one of humankind's greatest stories.Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam... |
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Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
Catherine Hewitt - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Catherine Hewitt's richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right.In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful... |
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New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers
JOHN BUTMAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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*Named a Best History Book of the Month by Barnes and Noble* Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive. Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed,... |
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Forged Through Fire: War, Peace, and the Democratic Bargain
Frances Mccall Rosenbluth - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive? Considering this question, two of our most celebrated political scientists trace the shocking ways in which governments have mobilized armies since... |
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The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
EDWARD L AYERS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Amid the devastation of war rise the first stirrings of freedom in this absorbing, ground-level narrative by an acclaimed historian.Virginia's Great Valley, prosperous in peace with a rich soil and an enslaved workforce, invited destruction in war. Voracious Union and Confederate armies... |
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West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express
JIM DEFELICE - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"A GROUNDBREAKING WORK," hails True West: The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of American Sniper brings the Pony Express to life in this rich and rollicking new history"One can hear horse hooves pounding across the prairie and sense the fear and courage and excitement."... |
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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Arthur Herman - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nations great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim - from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill. Douglas MacArthur was arguably... |
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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
Rebecca Fraser - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world... |
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Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick
Michael Shelden - Ecco Press
Format: Print book
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A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville's canonical work was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional... |
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In Search of the Phoenicians
Josephine Crawley Quinn - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search... |
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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2015 Recipient of the American Book Award2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in LiteratureThe first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous... |
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Coyote America
Dan Flores - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation."-Wall... |
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Ancestors in a Nation Divided: An In-Depth Guide to Civil War Research
Cindy Freed - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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Why Research Your Civil War ancestor? You may have a story or two handed down through your family about your Civil War ancestor. So what other info do you need? Was he a northerner called to service by the president? So with honor and the instilled need to preserve the Union he enlisted?... |
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Michigan Apples
Sharon Kegerreis - The History Press
Format: Print book
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French Jesuit missionaries planted apple seeds in the Michigan wilderness more than a century before the travels of Johnny Appleseed. Seedlings grew into giant fruit-bearing trees that provided tangy apples to pioneers who followed. As the Detroit settlement grew, grafted apple trees were... |
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Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother
Sonia Nazario - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In this astonishing true story award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States When Enrique is five years old his mother Lourdes too poor to feed her children... |
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The 50 Greatest Wonders of the World
Aaron Millar - Icon Books
Format: Paperback
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Award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar reveals the greatest wonders of the world and the insider secrets on how to see them at their awe-inspiring bestFeaturing selections from around the globe, and a number of new and never-seen-before entries, this compendium of bucket-list experiences... |
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Grant
Ron Chernow - Penguin Press
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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US Special Ops: The History, Weapons, and Missions of Elite Military Forces
Fred J Pushies - Voyageur Press (MN)
Format: Print book
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It's the inside scoop on US military special operations. From weapons, gear, missions, and commandos, learn every military secret from the eighteenth century to today. Few aspects of the US military pique people's interest more than special ops. Due to the clandestine nature of their... |
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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
Andrew Scott Cooper - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Print book
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An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administrationIn this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth... |
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Karl Anderson: An Artist and His World
Dorothy Davis Cox - Clyde Heritage League Inc
Format: Hardcover
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Seven children were born to a poor couple in Ohio. The father was a Civil War veteran dubbed "The Major" who spent his time telling war stories and playing his coronet in the village band. The mother was a quiet hardworking housewife who took in washing, held the family together,... |
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Michael Wallis - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion."WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper... |
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An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden
Gary B Nash - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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By the time of his death in 1988, Romare Bearden was most widely celebrated for his large-scale public murals and collages, which were reproduced in such places as Time and Esquire to symbolize and evoke the black experience in America. As Mary Schmidt Campbell shows us in this definitive,... |
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Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Returned to Fight as Confederate Soldiers
TOM MCMILLAN - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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Gettysburg Rebels is the gripping true story of five young men who grew up in Gettysburg, moved south to Virginia in the 1850s, joined the Confederate army - and returned "home" as foreign invaders for the great battle in July 1863. Drawing on rarely-seen documents and family... |
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The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
CROWN. - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest houses - and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled... |
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The Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution
Mike Rapport - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the eighteenth century - Paris, London, and New York - all in the midst of political chaos and revolution. From the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War,... |
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The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police
Frank McDonough - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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Written with access to previously unpublished records, this is the fullest and most definitive account available on Hitler's secret police, the Gestapo. The book illustrates how, despite its material constraints, this group was able to extend its reach widely and quickly by manipulating... |
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Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War
Chandra Manning - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army's escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage... |
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Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys Across a Changing Russia
Lisa Dickey - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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**One of Bustle's 17 of the Best Nonfiction Books Coming in January 2017****One of Men's Journal's 7 Best Books of January**Lisa Dickey traveled across the whole of Russia three times -- in 1995, 2005 and 2015 -- making friends in eleven different cities, then coming back again and again... |
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Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History's Mightiest Matriarchs
JASON PORATH - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Rejected Princesses returns with an inspiring, fully illustrated guide that brings together the fiercest mothers in history - real life matriarchs who gave everything to protect all they loved.Mothers possess the "maternal instinct" - an innate fierceness that drives... |
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The Handy Civil War Answer Book
Samuel Willard Crompton - Visible Ink Press
Format: Paperback
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Battles, Blood, Honor, and HeroismThe nation's highest-casualty, bloodiest war is still discussed, studied, and acted out. It continues to affect the political boundaries of today. From the economic, political, and social forces behind the conflict, through the first shots fired at Fort... |
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The Lives of the Surrealists
DESMOND MORRIS - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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Life histories of the Surrealists, known and unknown, by one of the last surviving members of the movement -- artist and best-selling author Desmond MorrisSurrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment... |
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Jamestown, the Truth Revealed
William M Kelso - University of Virginia Press
Format: Hardcover
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What was life really like for the band of adventurers who first set foot on the banks of the James River in 1607? Important as the accomplishments of these men and women were, the written records pertaining to them are scarce, ambiguous, and often conflicting, and those curious... |
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Jennifer Wright - Henry Holt
Format: Print book
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A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues -- from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio -- and a celebration of the heroes who fought themIn 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon... |
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My Amish Neighbors: A History of the Amish in Southern Michigan
Mr. Frederic W. Strobel II - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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The author has lived for over twenty years surrounded by both German and Swiss Amish in southern Michigan. During that time, Strobel has developed a friendship with many Amish. A large population of Old Order Amish live in southern Michigan and on the Indiana and Ohio borders. In 2016,... |
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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
Kevin M. Kruse - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"A gripping and troubling account of the origins of our turbulent times." -- Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United StatesWhen -- and how -- did America become so polarized? In this masterful history, leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer... |
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Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armour
DK - DK
Format: Hardcover
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A spectacularly illustrated journey through 4,000 years of the weaponWeapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armour is a comprehensive visual guide charting the history of arms and armour worldwide. Follow the evolution of weaponry around the world from Assyrian spears to the AK-47 and discover... |
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The Library Book
Susan Orlean - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read ... Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book."... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than... |
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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Bill James - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.Between 1898 and 1912, families... |
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Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America's Special Operations Forces
Mark Moyar - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Oppose Any Foe is the epic story of America's most elite warriors: the Special Operations Forces. Born as small appendages to the conventional armies of World War II, the Special Operations Forces have grown into a behemoth of 70,000 troops, including Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces,... |
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The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
STUART KELLS - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"If you think you know what a library is, this marvellously idiosyncratic book will make you think again. After visiting hundreds of libraries around the world and in the realm of the imagination, bibliophile and rare-book collector Stuart Kells has compiled an enchanting compendium... |
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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
Patricia Cornwell - Amazon Publishing
Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing expos of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder - and the police force that failed to solve it.Vain and charismatic Walter... |
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Liberated Spirits: Two Women Who Battled Over Prohibition
Hugh Ambrose - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative new take on the women behind a perennially fascinating subject--Prohibition--by bestselling author and historian Hugh Ambrose.The passage of the 18th Amendment (banning the sale of alcohol) and the 19th (women's suffrage) in the same year is no coincidence. These... |
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Seven Days of Infamy: Pearl Harbor Across the World
Nicholas Best - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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December 7, 1941: One of those rare days in world history that people remember exactly where they were, what they were doing, and how they felt when they heard the news.Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, and James Cagney were in Hollywood. Kurt Vonnegut was in the bath, and Dwight D. Eisenhower... |
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The History Book
Dk Publishing. - DK Publishing
Format: Print book
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The History Book is a fascinating journey through the most significant events in history and the big ideas behind each one, from the dawn of civilization to the lightning-paced culture of today. One hundred crystal-clear articles explore the Law Code of Hammurabi, the Renaissance,... |
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Fifty Weapons That Changed the Course of History
Joel Levy - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully presented guide to 50 weapons and their historical impact on civilization. Fifty Weapons that Changed the Course of History is a fascinating guide to the arms and armaments that have had the greatest impact on the development of human civilization. Like the other titles... |
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
MONICA HESSE - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Recommended Summer reading by TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, and Elle. A breathtaking feat of reportage, American Fire combines procedural with love story, redefining American tragedy for our time.The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night... |
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Mark Bowden - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Not since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down has Mark Bowden written a book about a battle. His most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam. By January 1968,... |
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The Russian Revolution: A New History
Sean McMeekin - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In The Russian Revolution, historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and changed the course of world history. Between 1900 and 1920, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation:... |
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American Witches: A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries
Susan Fair - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover
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The history of American witches is way weirder than you ever imagined. From bewitched pigs hell-bent on revenge to gruesome twentieth-century murders, American Witches reveals strange incidents of witchcraft that have long been swept under the rug as bizarre sidenotes to history.. On a tour... |
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
Laura Spinney - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus--one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on the history of the twentieth century.The Spanish flu of 1918-1920... |
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Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space
Gary Kitmacher - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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A rich visual history of real and fictional space stations, illustrating pop culture's influence on the development of actual space stations and vice versaSpace stations represent both the summit of space technology and, possibly, the future of humanity beyond Earth. Space Stations:... |
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Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
Nigel Hamilton - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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In the next installment of the "splendid memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" (New York Times) , Nigel Hamilton tells the astonishing story of FDR's year-long, defining battle with Churchill, as the war raged in Africa and Italy. Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command,... |
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Sorrow of the Earth: Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the Tragedy of Show Business
Éric Vuillard - Pushkin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Fascinating, brilliant and angry: the tale of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and the tragic fate of its Native American participants.Buffalo Bill was the prince of show business. His spectacular Wild West shows were performed to packed houses across the world, holding audiences spellbound... |
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Buster: The Military Dog Who Saved a Thousand Lives
Will Barrow - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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"With some dogs you share a boil in the bag breakfast and maybe a blanket on a cold desert floor. Some you wouldn't leave in charge of your Grandma unless you wanted to find out just how fast the old girl could run. But, if you're very, very lucky there will be the one dog you would... |
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The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
Gloria J Browne-Marshall - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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The Voting Rights War tells the story of the courageous struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court. Readers take the journey for voting rights from slavery to the Plessy v. Ferguson case that legalized segregation in 1896... |
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Michigan at Antietam: The Wolverine State's Sacrifice on America's Bloodiest Day
Jack Dempsey - History Press (SC)
Format: Paperback
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America's single bloodiest day was at the Battle of Antietam, and Michigan played a prominent role. Discover the state's connections to the Lost Order, one of the Civil War's greatest mysteries. Explore George A. Custer's role as a staff officer in combat. Mourn the extraordinary... |
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My journey at the nuclear brink
William James Perry - Stanford University Press
Format: eBook : Document : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat... |
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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
Joe Jackson - Farrar
Format: Print book
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The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the worldBlack Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John Neihardt from a series of interviews,... |
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller!Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West.... |
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Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
BRET BAIER - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 bestselling author of Three Days in January and Anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News Channel reveals as never before President Ronald Reagan's battle to end the Cold War, framed around the historic, three-day 1988 Moscow Summit.In his acclaimed #1 national... |
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Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story
William Doyle - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The most complete history of the U.S. Navy SEALs - from their roots in World War II to their celebrated efforts in the War on Terror - written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community. The book will tie-in with a fall 2014 PBS series.Over the last fifty... |
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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
James Lee Mcdonough - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of one of America's most storied military figures. General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented... |
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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
Laura Shapiro - Viking
Format: Print book
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A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking - what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives - social and cultural, personal... |
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In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement
John Hylan Heminway - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of one woman's search for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II--a life that sparked a heroic career, but also hid a secret past.Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years. A member of the renowned... |
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Top Dog: The Story of Marine Hero Lucca
Maria Goodavage - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Soldier Dogs returns with the incredible, true story of K-9 Marine hero Lucca, and the handlers who fought alongside her through two bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Top Dog, Maria Goodavage takes readers into the life of Lucca K458, a decorated... |
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The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
Thomas Sancton - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Was the world's wealthiest woman - Liliane Bettencourt - heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oral fortune, the victim of a con man Or were her own family the real villains This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause clbre that has captivated... |
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Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History
David T Gilbert - Rizzoli
Format: Print book
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Walk in the footsteps of history with this stunning volume that brings more than thirty Civil War battlefields to life. From the "First Battle of Bull Run" to Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House four years later, this book celebrates the history and scenic beauty of these... |
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The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Tribes
Mary Stockwell - Westholme Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Story of the Longest and Largest Forced Migration of Native Americans in American History The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was the culmination of the United States' policy to force native populations to relocate west of the Mississippi River. The most well-known episode in the eviction... |
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National Geographic The Greeks: An Illustrated History
Diane Harris Cline - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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On the culture that brought us democracy, the Olympics, Socrates, and Alexander the Great, this lavishly illustrated reference about ancient Greece presents the amazing history through gripping stories; the rise and fall of the phenomenal empire; the powerful legacy left by ancient Greece... |
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This Day in Presidential History
PAUL BRANDUS - Bernan Press
Format: Hardcover
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For reference librarians, journalists, social media managers, history buffs, and more, a treasure trove of information about the US presidency for each day of the year from the popular, award-winning White House journalist Paul Brandus. The Atlantic calls Brandus "one of the top Washington... |
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The Great Rescue: American Heroes, an Iconic Ship, and Saving Europe During WWI
PETER HERNON - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Published in commemoration of the centennial of America's entry into World War I, the story of the USS Leviathan, the legendary liner turned warship that ferried U.S. soldiers to Europe - a unique war history that offers a fresh, compelling look at this epic time.When war broke out in Europe... |
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Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
SHERYLL CASHIN - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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How interracial love and marriage changed history, and may soon alter the landscape of American politics.Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime:... |
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
Jon Kukla - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney... |
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Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima
Alexander Rose - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In the grand tradition of John Keegan's enduring classic The Face of Battle comes a searing, unforgettable chronicle of war through the eyes of the American soldiers who fought in three of our most iconic battles: Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima. This is not a book about how great... |
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Operation Chowhound: The Most Risky, Most Glorious US Bomber Mission of WWII
Stephen Dando-Collins - Palgrave Macmillan Trade; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning with a crazy plan hatched by a suspect prince, and an even crazier reliance on the word of the Nazis, Operation Chowhound was devised. Between May 1 and May 8, 1945, 2,268 military units flown by the USAAF, dropped food to 3.5 million starving Dutch civilians in German-occupied... |
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Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War
Mark Danner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Trapped in a forever war by 9/11, in Spiral Mark Danner describes a nation that has been altered in fundamental ways. President Bush declared a war of choice and without an exit plan, and President Obama has proven unable to take the country off what he has called its "permanent... |
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The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story
Miriam C Davis - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book
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From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome... |
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Richard III: England's Most Controversial King
CHRIS SKIDMORE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England's most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.Richard III is one of English history's best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare... |
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The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
David Roberts - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral Puebloans Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans occupied the Four... |
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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
AndreÌs ReseÌndez - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A landmark history - the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early 20th century Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrs Resndez illuminates... |
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Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography
Paul Martineau - J. Paul Getty Museum
Format: Hardcover
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In 1911 the French couturier Paul Poiret challenged Edward Steichen to create the first artistic, rather than merely documentary, fashion photographs, a moment that is now considered to be a turning point in the history of fashion photography. As fashion changed over the next century,... |
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Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Victor Sebestyen - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating biography of the man who helped launch the Russian Revolution, which uses the personal - including Lenin's key relationships with the women in his life - to shed light on the political.Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure,... |
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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Karen Abbott, the New York Times best-selling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today) , tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War. Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating... |
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
DEBORAH CADBURY - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.By the 1890s, Queen Victoria had over thirty grandchildren, and to maintain and increase British royal power she was determined to maneuver them into... |
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Enemies of the State: The Radical Right in America from FDR to Trump
DARREN J MULLOY - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The rise of the alt-right alongside Donald Trump's candidacy may be seem unprecedented events in the history of the United States, but D. J. Mulloy shows us that the radical right has been a long and active part of American politics during the twentieth century. From the German-American... |
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The Girl Who Escaped ISIS: This Is My Story
Farida Khalaf - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Named a "Best Book of the Year" by New York Post "Farida Khalaf's story is harrowing but crucial - especially when it comes to understanding what ISIS actually is and does." - Glamour "As gripping as it is appalling ... a compelling testament to the suffering... |
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Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Sonny Longtine - The History Press
Format: Paperback
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Residents of the idyllic villages scattered throughout the Upper Peninsula's richly forested paradise live in quiet comfort for the most part, believing that murder rarely happens in their secluded sanctuary, but it does, and more often than they realize. This collection of twenty-four... |
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The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
Steven Pressfield - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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"A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerusalem, and into the hearts and souls of soldiers winning a spectacularly improbable victory... |
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Great Lakes Island Escapes: Ferries and Bridges to Adventure
Maureen Dunphy - Painted Turtle
Format: Print book
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The Great Lakes Basin is the largest surface freshwater system on Earth. The more than 30,000 islands dotted throughout the basin provide some of the best ways to enjoy the Great Lakes. While the vast majority of these islands can only be reached by private boat or plane, a surprising... |
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Laurence Leamer - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March... |
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Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang
Max Décharné - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This rollercoaster ride through the colorful history of slang -- from highwaymen to hip-hop -- is a fresh and exciting take on the subject: entertaining and authoritative without being patronizing, out-of-touch or voyeuristic. Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture,... |
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Chicago's Grand Midway: A Walk around the World at the Columbian Exposition
Norm Bolotin - University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback
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Created as a centerpiece for the Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Midway Plaisance was for one summer the world's most wondrous thoroughfare. A journey along its length immersed millions of spellbound visitors in a spectacle that merged exoticism with enlightenment and artistic crafts... |
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Forgotten Women: The Scientists
Zing Tsjeng - Cassell
Format: Hardcover
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Forgotten Women is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand they've been dealt and, as a result, haveformed, shaped and changed the course of our futures. From leaders and scientists to artists... |
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Fifty States: Every Question Answered
Lori Baird - Thunder Bay Press
Format: Hardcover
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What was the last state to join the Union? What does the state quarter for Alabama look like? What is the state bird of Texas? All the answers are contained in Fifty States: Every Question Answered! Whether you’re a student or just a history buff, this book is a great reference manual... |
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Rick Perlstein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Nixonland a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second termuntil televised... |
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Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
Margaret Lazarus Dean - Graywolf Press
Format: Print book
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Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known itIn the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake... |
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Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom
RUSSELL SHORTO - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today.With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those... |
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Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
Joshua Levine - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN, AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY, AND MARK RYLANCEThe Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat, yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten... |
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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
Howard Markel - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the much admired medical historian, author of An Anatomy of Addiction, the story of the two Kellogg brothers: one who became America's most beloved physician between the mid-nineteenth century and World War II, a best-selling author, lecturer and health magazine publisher who was read... |
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The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah
Kenneth C. Davis - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF AMERICA AT WAR. In prose that will remind you of "the best teacher you ever had" (People Magazine) , Davis brings to life six emblematic battles, revealing untold... |
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The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery
Noel Rae - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Comprising personal accounts from an intensely consequential chapter in human history, the transatlantic slave trade, The Great Stain takes readers from the depths of suffering to the heights of human dignity.There have been numerous books about the why, when, and where of slavery in America,... |
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