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Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump
Kate Andersen Brower - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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After serving the highest office of American government, five men - Jimmy Carter, the late George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama - became members of the world's most exclusive fraternity. In Team of Five, Kate Andersen Brower goes beyond the White House to uncover... |
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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Leo Damrosch - Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
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Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review "Damrosch brings the Club's redoubtable personalities - the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie - to vivid life ... " - The New York Times Book Review In 1763, the painter... |
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A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book
John Barton
Format: Hardcover
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A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priestIn our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collection of books that has been unchanged and unchallenged since the earliest days of the Christian church. The idea of the Bible as "Holy... |
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Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
Muhammad H. Zaman - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning Boston University educator and researcher Muhammad H. Zaman provides a chilling look at the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, explaining how we got here and what we must do to address this growing global health crisis.In September 2016, a woman in Nevada became the first... |
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Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death
Anthony Everitt - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait. More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire... |
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Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother
Craig Shirley - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The Mother of the Father of our Country. Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of history's most famous revolutionary. In fact, George Washington's first fight for independence was from his controlling, singular mother. Stubborn, aristocratic Mary Ball Washington... |
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History
Brian Kilmeade - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times best seller, now with a new epilogueIn March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than 200 Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo. After 13 days of fighting, American legends Jim Bowie and Davey Crockett died there, along with other Americans... |
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Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
Chris Arnade - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind.Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael... |
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
Lewis, Michael - W W NORTON & CO
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The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waited to brief the administration's transition team on the agency it would soon be running. Nobody appeared. Across all departments the stories were the same: Trump appointees were few and far between;... |
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
Jerry Mitchell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases - decades after they had gotten away with murder.On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings,... |
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Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone: The Authorized Biography
Charles Moore - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Charles Moore's masterful and definitive biography of Britain's first female prime minister reaches its climax with the story of her zenith and her fall.How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we live now?... |
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The Burger Chef Murders in Indiana
Julie Young - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The cold case that put Speedway, Indiana, on the map. "What may be the definitive public accounting of the murder mystery that still resonates today." - Fox59 The evening of November 17, 1978, should have been like any other for the four young crewmembers closing the Burger... |
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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
Nicholas D. Kristof - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.With... |
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Hitler: A Biography
Peter Longerich - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most prominent biographers of the Nazi period, a new and provocative portrait of the figure behind the century's worst crimesAcclaimed historian Peter Longerich, author of Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler now turns his attention to Adolf Hitler in this new biography. While... |
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Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America
Debbie Cenziper - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two.In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling... |
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Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
H. R. McMaster - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From Lt. General H.R. McMaster, U.S. Army, ret., the former National Security Advisor and author of the bestselling classic Dereliction of Duty, comes a bold and provocative re-examination of the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges that face the United States,... |
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
Jeremy Popkin - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern worldThe principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A... |
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American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
Kate Winkler Dawson - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air ("Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century.Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled... |
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One by One by One: Making a Small Difference Amid a Billion Problems
Aaron Berkowitz MD - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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In the spirit of Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, and joining the ranks of works by Bryan Stevenson, Matthew Desmond, Abraham Verghese and Oliver Sachs, the inspiring story of a young American neurologist's struggle to make a difference in Haiti by treating one patient... |
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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
Dan Jones - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side,... |
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The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit, and Defrocking
Sisman, Adam - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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How a liar, bigamist, and fraudulent priest took in some of the brightest minds of his generation One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely... |
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The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business
Schwartz, Nelson D. - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times business reporter Nelson D. Schwartz comes a gripping investigation of how a virtual velvet rope divides Americans in every arena of life, creating a friction-free existence for those with money on one side and a Darwinian struggle for the middle class on the other... |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues."Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about... |
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The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
Brian Holden Reid - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known generals in the Civil War. His March to the Sea, which resulted in a devastated swath of the South from Atlanta to Savannah, cemented his place in history as the pioneer of total... |
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American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
Holly Jackson - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists - free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes - and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era"In the tradition of Howard Zinn's people's histories, American Radicals reveals a forgotten... |
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James Monroe: A Life
Tim McGrat - DUTTON BOOKS
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary life of James Monroe: soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who helped transform thirteen colonies into a vibrant and mighty republic. Monroe lived a life defined by revolutions. From the battlefields of the War for Independence,... |
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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
Jon Meacham - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A celebration of America and the music that inspired people and illuminated eras, from the Revolutionary War to the present, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and Grammy winner Tim McGraw. From "The Star Spangled Banner" to "Born in the U.S.A.," Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw... |
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Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever
Alex Kantrowitz - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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An acclaimed tech reporter reveals the inner workings of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft, showing how to compete with the tech titans using their own playbook.At Amazon, "Day One" is code for inventing like a startup, with little regard for legacy. Day Two is, in Jeff... |
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Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
Craig Fehrman - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Gatekeepers and The Presidents Club, historian Craig Fehrman offers a surprising new look into both the public and private lives of America's presidents. Most Americans are familiar with Lincoln's famous words in the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation... |
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999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
Heather Dune Macadam - Citadel
Format: Hardcover
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On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory... |
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The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
Lindsay M. Chervinsky - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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The US Constitution never established a presidential cabinet -- the delegates to the Constitutional Convention explicitly rejected the idea. So how did George Washington create one of the most powerful bodies in the federal government?On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department... |
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Normandy '44: D-Day and the Retaking of Europe
James Holland - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the West -- the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. The story is a familiar one -- and yet, approaching the 75th... |
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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
Norman Lebrecht - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A unique chronicle of the years 1847-1947, the century when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them.In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known - Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished... |
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Candacy Taylor - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the "black travel guide to America." At that time, it was very dangerous and di cult for African-Americans... |
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Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
Catherine Belton - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The hacking of American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. In recent years, Vladimir Putin's Russia has waged a concerted campaign to expand its influence and undermine Western institutions. But how and why did all this come about, and who has orchestrated... |
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Barnum: An American Life
Robert Wilson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Robert Wilson's Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichs for a more nuanced story ... It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves." - The Wall Street JournalP. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever... |
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
Svetlana Alexievich - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes an oral history of children's experiences in WWII across Europe and Russia, in the celebrated tradition of her masterpiece, The Unwomanly Face of War.Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is Svetlana... |
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Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
Adam Minter - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Junkyard Planet, a journey into the surprising afterlives of our former possessions.Downsizing. Decluttering. A parent's death. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local... |
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Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America
Sherrod Brown - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Ohio's Sherrod Brown has sat on the Senate floor at a mahogany desk with a proud history. In Desk 88, he tells the story of eight of the Senators who were there before him. Despite their flaws and frequent setbacks, each made a decisive... |
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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
Frank Dikotter - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily,... |
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Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation
Douglas Waller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln's Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation. Filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue, it is also a striking portrait of a shrewd president who valued what his operatives... |
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
Julie Satow - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px... |
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Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
Donald L. Miller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war.Vicksburg, Mississippi,... |
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The House of Kennedy
James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Those who dwell in the House of Kennedy work hard, live hard, and win at all costs. But just how much has it cost them? The Kennedy name is synonymous with American royalty. The family commitment to public service is legendary and enduring. But all their wild charisma has been dashed by disgrace... |
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The Brothers York: A Royal Tragedy
Thomas Penn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Vicious battles, powerful monarchs, and royal intrigue abound in this "gripping, complex, and sensational" (Hilary Mantel) true story of the War of the Roses - a struggle among three brothers, two of whom became kings, and the inspiration for Shakespeare's renowned play,... |
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In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine
Rachel Lance - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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How a determined scientist cracked the case of the first successful - and disastrous - submarine attack On the night of February 17, 1864, the tiny Confederate submarine HL Hunley made its way toward the USS Housatonic just outside Charleston harbor. Within a matter of hours,... |
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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It
Marty Makary M.D. - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, timely, urgent critique of America's broken health care system.One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America.... |
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
Fred Kaplan - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war - and Presidents' actions in nuclear crises - from Truman to Trump.Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as "a rare... |
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Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News
Lisa Napoli - Abrams Press
Format: Book
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The wild inside story of the birth of CNN and dawn of the age of 24-hour news.
How did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on three national networks to the age of 24-hour channels and constantly breaking news? The answer - thanks to Ted Turner and an oddball... |
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I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis
Jeremy K. Everett - Brazos Press
Format: Paperback
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Hunger is one of the most significant issues in America. One in eight Americans struggles with hunger, and more than thirteen million children live in food insecure homes. As Christians we are called to address the suffering of the hungry and poor: "For I was hungry, and you gave me food... |
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The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians
David M. Rubenstein - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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In revealing conversations with our greatest historians, co-founder of the Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes listeners on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story.These lively dialogues present some of the biggest names in American... |
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Alice Wong - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent - but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings... |
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Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
Mollie Hemingway - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In this definitive deep dive into the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, two women with extraordinary behind-the-scenes access - The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway and Judicial Crisis Network senior counsel Carrie Severino - reveal what really happened... |
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MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
Ben Hubbard - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping chronicle of the rise of Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler "A rare and penetrating look behind the curtain of the world's most important family and its dangerous new leader." - Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower MBS is the untold... |
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Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
Ken Follett - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. I was on the edge of tears. Something priceless was dying in front of our eyes. The feeling was bewildering, as if the earth... |
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Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
Robert Matzen and Luca Dotti - GoodKnight Books
Format: Paperback
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Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffanys. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered her intense... |
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