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Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free
John Ferling - Bloomsbury Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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No event in American history was more pivotal-or more furiously contested-than Congress's decision to declare independence in July 1776. Even months after American blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord, many colonists remained loyal to Britain. John Adams, a leader of the revolutionary... |
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Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
David Mamet
Format: Hardcover
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The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG sounds his alarm about the Visigoths at our gates.
In RECESSIONAL he calls out, skewers, mocks, and, most importantly, dissects the virus of conformity which is now an existential... |
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Price of Fame: The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce
Sylvia Jukes Morris - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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“I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die,” Clare Boothe Luce told her biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris. Price of Fame, the concluding volume of the life of an exceptionally brilliant polymath, chronicles Luce’s progress from the early months of World War II, when,... |
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We Can All Do Better
Bill Bradley - Vanguard Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Bill Bradley is arguably one of the most well-versed public figures of our time. The eighteen-year New Jersey Senator, financial and investment adviser, Olympic and NBA athlete, national radio host, and bestselling author has lived in the United States as both political insider and outsider,... |
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Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program
Siegfried S. Hecker - Stanford University Press
Format: 1st Edition
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North Korea remains a puzzle to Americans. How did this country -- one of the most isolated in the world and in the policy cross hairs of every U.S. administration during the past 30 years -- progress from zero nuclear weapons in 2001 to a threatening arsenal of perhaps 50 such weapons... |
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Miracles and Massacres: True and Untold Stories of the Making of America
Glenn Beck - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Thomas Edison was a bad guy and bad guys usually lose in the end. World War II radio host Tokyo Rose was branded as a traitor by the U.S. government and served time in prison. In reality, she was a hero to many. Twenty U.S. soldiers received medals of honor at the Battle of Wounded Knee... |
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American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan
Matt Farwell - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan"A riveting journalistic account of Bowe Bergdahl's disastrous--and weirdly poignant--choice... |
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The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
Mac Griswold - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Mac Griswold’s The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England... |
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