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Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians
RALPH WHITE - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping and remarkable true story of author Ralph White's desperate effort to save the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army.In April 1975, Ralph White was asked by his boss to transfer from... |
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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
Christopher Clark - ?Crown
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward, with deep resonance and frightening parallels to today.As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed... |
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Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
Kevin Michael Kruse - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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America's top historiansset the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation's past The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions... |
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Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor
ANDREW KIRTZMAN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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What happened to Rudy Giuliani? That is the question millions of Americans have asked about this once-beloved leader. Andrew Kirtzman, who has been following Giuliani since the 1990s, answers that question in this fascinating biography.Giuliani was hailed after 9/11 as "America's... |
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Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
Dylan C. Penningroth - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement.The familiar story of civil rights goes something like this: Once, the American legal system was dominated by racist officials... |
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Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity
Amy Brady - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation - from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today - and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet.. Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals,... |
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