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The Plots Against the President: Fdr, a Nation in Crisis, and the Rise
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In March 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt finally became the nation's thirty-second president. The man swept in by a landslide four months earlier now took charge of a country in the...
The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s
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The 1990s was a decade of extreme change. Shifts in culture, politics, and technology radically altered the way Americans did business, expressed themselves, and thought about their role in the...
Washington's Circle: The Creation of the President
History buffs will rejoice at this splendid Team of Rivals-style group biography of the nation's first president and the men who served with him, who together created the office of...
Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation
Timed to the bicentennial of the burning of Washington, D.C., by the British army, Through the Perilous Fight is gripping history in the tradition of Manhunt and April1865. Steve Vogel...
Lion and the Journalist: The Unlikely Friendship Of Theodore Roosevelt
A New York Times BestsellerTheodore Roosevelt, accidental president, and Joseph Bishop, newspaper editor, met when the future Rough Rider was police commissioner of New York City. This is the remarkable...
Revolutionaries: Inventing an American Nation
Rather than simply celebrating the 'triumph of liberty', Jack Rakove's new history of the American Revolution will stress the ambiguous legacy of the revolution, a legacy that ranges from liberty...
Kissinger's Year: 1973
1973 was a seminal year in world history. The outbreak of the 'Yom Kippur War' took both Israel and the US by surprise, the Vietnam War finally ended, it was...
Not So!
This study explores a number of myths and misconceptions about the American past. The book covers events throughout American history, from whether Columbus knew the world was round when he...
Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President
From the author of the widely acclaimed international bestseller John F. Kennedy- An Unfinished Life, 1917-1963. Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise....
Dear Americans: Letters from the Desk of Ronald Reagan
Organized chronologically, this collection of letters from Ronald Reagan to his constituents during his eight years in the White House shares the former president's political convictions, religious beliefs, and human...
Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That
"Definitive...Not just for Talking Heads fans-it's a masterful dive into downtown New York in the 70s, and the changing face of rock music."- Town & Country " Riveting" - New...
Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner-creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's...
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American
A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...
The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of...
The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution
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The Roberts Court, seven years old, sits at the center of a constitutional maelstrom. Through four landmark decisions, Marcia Coyle, one of the most prestigious experts on the Supreme Court,...
The Jamestown Brides: The Bartered Wives of the New World
In 1621, fifty-seven women undertook a three-month journey to Jamestown after responding to an advert placed by the Virginia Company of London calling for maids 'young and uncorrupt' to make...
The Waters of Oblivion: The British Invasion of the Rio De La Plata,
On 7th July 1807, Lieutenant-General John Whitelocke contemplated the terms of a surrender document to which he was about to put his name. It was the final act in Britain's...
Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding
An "essential" (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition ) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how...
Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border, 1863
'The best and most accurate first-person account of the long-overlooked western border war of 1863...[It] contributes to a richer understanding of the Civil War by establishing links between developments in...
Love Song to the Plains
Love Song to the Plains is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable historian, Mari...
The Sweetness of Water: Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize
**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE** A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK AND BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING 2021 SELECTION 'A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex...
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and
Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with...
Among the Heroes
The events of September 11th 2001 are etched on the minds of people all over the globe. This book examines the fate of Flight 93. Believed to be heading for...
Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
We know Lincoln as the eloquent, compassionate leader of a nation torn by civil war. But he had another, less visible side, equally central to his character and leadership: Lincoln...
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
First used as a drug capable of treating mental illnesses, then as a 'truth serum' by the CIA, Tripped reveals how the fortuitous discovery of LSD in April 1943 led...
Vietdamned: How the World's Greatest Minds Put America on Trial
Guilty: the conclusion of many trials. But this verdict was unusual, delivered by a jury comprising of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir,...
Vietdamned: How the World's Greatest Minds Put America on Trial
Guilty: the conclusion of many trials. But this verdict was unusual, delivered by a jury comprising of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir,...
Great Expectations: a national US Bestseller
'A phenomenal, transfixing?work; Cunningham is a singular, dazzling writer' Bryan Washington 'A coming-of-age novel of the richest, most expansive kind, it's a rare debut, one that feels both intimate and...
Cuba: A History
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Cuba's impact on world history is impressive. The small Caribbean island has been at the centre of world events. Covering the breadth of the island's history in concise and readable...
A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Fr Emont, and the Claiming of the
Between 1842 and 1854 John C. Fremont, renowned as the nineteenth century's greatest explorer, and Kit Carson, the legendary scout, boldly ventured into untamed territory to fulfill America's "manifest destiny"....
The Civil War: An Illustrated History
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"A treasure for the eye and mind" ( The New York Times ) about the greatest war in American history-and a magnificent companion volume to the celebrated PBS television series...
Holding the Line: A true story of female-led resilience from the
From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Demon Copperhead : a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first...
Frida Kahlo's Love Letters
'I don't know how to write love letters. But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is...
Licensed to Lie
This true legal thriller debunks everything the media and the government told us about the Department of Justice's destruction and prosecution of the venerable accounting firm Arthur Andersen, Merrill Lynch...
The US and the Cold War, 1945-63
The Cold War is a vast and complex topic in recent international history. The author of this title has delineated the role of the United States from the global conflict,...
The Concise Guide to American Aircraft of World War II: An Illustrated
This illustrated guide looks at major American aircraft of World War II, showing the design of 133 fighter bombers used in the war. It describes how the aircraft were deployed...
Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counter-Intelligence But Promoted
Based on meticulous research in FBI files, Chasing Spies uncovers the FBIAIs role in the most important espionage cases of the cold war years. The book shows how secrecy immunized...
William Bradford's Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word
Widely regarded as the most important narrative of 17th-century New England, William Bradford's "Of Plimmoth Plantation" is one of the founding documents of American literature and history. In this study,...
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice
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"Exposes the sinister complexity of American racism... King tells this... story with grace and sensitivity, and his narrative never flags." --Jeffrey Toobin, New York Times Book Review From the author...
America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the
The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today's Black mecca Atlanta is home to some of America's most prominent Black politicians,...
Post Roads & Iron Horses
Post Roads & Iron Horses is the first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New...
The Maginot Line: A New History
An authoritative and original history of the Maginot Line that reshapes our understanding of interwar France and the events of 1940 The Maginot Line was a marvel of 1930s engineering....
The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World
A reminder that war is not always, or even generally, good for long-term growth Many believe that despite its destructive character, war ultimately boosts long-term economic growth. For the United...
American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican
"[Corn is] a great journalist. I love the way he thinks. I love the way he writes. I'm so glad he's done a super-readable, modern history of the right...We just...
Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony
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At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland. When Sir...
The 54th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
During the height of the Cold War, the United States started to develop and expand its air defence capabilities to knock down Russian Air Force nuclear-armed bombers flying over the...
Masters of the Field: The Fourth United States Cavalry in the Civil
The Fourth United States Cavalry in the Civil War This is the untold story of the heroic efforts of the men of the 4th United States Cavalry as they sabred...