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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
Fergus M. Bordewich - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil - when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the KKK. The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as "the first organized terrorist... |
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The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
David Nasaw - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWIIIn May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with... |
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Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
Michael Schulman - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama.America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine... |
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Roosevelt's Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II
Joseph E. Persico - Random House; First Edition-Collectible edition
Format: Hardcover
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All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In Roosevelt's Centurions, distinguished historian Joseph E. Persico reveals how, during World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt seized the levers of wartime power like no president since Abraham Lincoln... |
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I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
MIRANDA SEYMOUR - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary... |
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