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A Riveting Account Of How Christian Fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, And Conservative Catholics Have Joined Forces In A Battle Against Their Progressive Coun...

Philomena by Martin Sixsmith, isbn 9781447245223Categories: History United States20th Century

With a New Afterword by the Author The New York Times bestseller, praised as hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have...

In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, reader...

Martin Luther King’s classic exploration of the events and forces behind the Civil Rights Movement—including his Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16,...

Calls Upon Intellectuals On The Left To Once Again Engage American Public Life And Resist The Trappings Of Knee-jerk Negativism, Intellectual Fads, And Poli...

Jeffrey T. Richelson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs True CrimeEspionage

One of the great historic controversies in philosophy, according to Bertrand Russell, is that between empiricists-best represented by the British philosophe...

From Msnbc Correspondent Steve Kornacki, A Lively And Sweeping History Of The 1990s--one That Brings Critical New Understanding To Our Current Political Lan...

For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin O...

Susan Orlean Reopens The Unsolved Mystery Of The Most Catastrophic Library Fire In American History, And Delivers A Dazzling Love Letter To A Beloved Instit...

John Keegan. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 449-455) And Index.Categories: History MilitaryWorld War I

The Fifties Is A Sweeping Social, Political, Economic, And Cultural History Of The Ten Years That David Halberstam Regards As Seminal In Determining What Ou...

Provides Portraits And Cameos Of Over Sixty Women Who Were Influential In The Civil Rights Movement, And Argues That The Political Activity Of Women Has Bee...

Autumn 1944. World War Ii Is Nearly Over In Europe But Is Escalating In The Pacific, Where American Soldiers Face An Opponent Who Will Go To Any Length To A...

Follows The 1925 Murder Trial Of African-american Doctor Ossian Sweet, Who Was Accused Of Murdering A White Person During A Mob Attack On His Home, And Incl...

From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings and events...

Loet Velmans was seventeen when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman’s Hope and then s...

For four hundred years, explorers, traders, and settlers plundered North American wildlife in an escalating rampage, but in the twentieth century an incredi...

The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L. Gould shows how t...

A Portrait Of The American Recon Platoon Of The 101st Airborne Division Describes Their Sixty-day Fight For Survival During The 1968 Tet Offensive, Tracing ...

It was the worst of times and the best of times. It was an era of unprecedented crisis and a time of unprecedented courage. In a single, comprehensive volu...

Culled From 7500 Columns And Spanning Four Decades, From His Early Days To His Last Dispatch, The Writings In This Collection Reflect A Radically Changing A...

A revised edition of the New York Times bestselling classic: the epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who rode the ...

Hill 488 by Ray Hildreth & Charles W. Sasser Hardcover Pocket BooksCategories: History MilitaryVietnam War

This Is A True Story Of Secret Identities And International Intrigue; It Is The Gripping Account Of The History Making Collusion Between Hollywood And High-...

The First Nine Months Of Donald Trump's Term Were Stormy, Outrageous -- And Absolutely Mesmerizing. Now, Thanks To His Deep Access To The West Wing, Bestsel...

a Harrowing Yet Poignant Examination Of A Famous Lynching That Considers America's Ongoing Struggles With Race, Equality, And Justice. washington Post Bo...

Time Passages is a series of commemorative yearbooks, available for each year from 1940 through 2000. This collectible gift of memories offers a day-by-day...

An absorbing study of the duels fought between the US Navy's escort warships and Hitler's U-boats between December 1941 and May 1945. Although the Battle ...

The Best-selling Author Of Nixonland Presents A Portrait Of The United States During The Turbulent Political And Economic Upheavals Of The 1970s, Covering E...

During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the ...

Simmering racial tensions inflamed by discriminatory punitive measures sparked a violent confrontation aboard the USS Kitty Hawk while it was engaged in air...

Provides An Account Of One Of The Greatest National Disasters The United States Has Ever Experienced And Its ConsequencesCategories: Science & Math Natu...

Documents The 1946 Survival Story Of Six Navy Officers Whose Martin Mariner Seaplane Crashed In The Antarctic During A White-out Snowstorm, Describing The H...

The Roaring Twenties - the Jazz Age - has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, ...

The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that be...

This Popular and Classic Text explores both the paradoxes and the possibilities of postwar America. Author William H. Chafe portrays the significant cultur...

Political scandals have become a pervasive feature of many societies today. From Profumo to the cash-for-questions scandal, from Watergate to the Clinton-L...

For A Half Century Following The End Of World War Ii, The Seemingly Permanent Cold War Provided The United States With An Organizing Logic That Governed Nea...

Introduction: A Generation Revisited -- Long Time Passing -- Two Soldiers -- The Generation -- A Different War -- Southie And The Rebels -- Draft And Protes...

In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America’s long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues tha...

This Work Offers The First Look At How Religion Created And Prolonged The First World War. At The One-hundredth Anniversary Of The Outbreak Of The War, The ...

The companion to the Showtime documentary series, director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional his...

Describes The Origins Of Nascar Racing In The World Of Southern Moonshiners, Who Used Fast Ford Cars To Transport Bootleg Alcohol During The Depression And ...

robert Collins Examines The Critical And Controversial Developments Of The 1980s And The Unmistakable Influence Of Ronald Reagan On Their Making. Portrayi...

[editor In Chief, Clifton Daniel]. Includes Index.Categories: History United States20th Century