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National Geographic The Covers is the definitive cover collection from the world's most beloved magazine. The magazine with the famous yellow border has be...

David Plowden.Categories: History United StatesGeneral

James Grant’s story of America’s last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this “carefully researched history…m...

Empire of Sin is a vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s, a time when commercialised vice, jazz culture and endemic crime formed the background ...

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the sta...

from An Award-winning Historian, A Stirring (and Timely) Narrative History Of American Labor From The Dawn Of The Industrial Age To The Present Day. From...

One Hot Summer Night In 1945, Three Young American Writers, Each An Enfant Terrible, Came Together In A Stuffy Manhattan Apartment For The First Time. Each ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes—this one.” —The Washington Post * “Dazzling.â...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind Derek Black grew up at the ep...

Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson -- who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets -- provides a startling, first- person acco...

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

Ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and James Baker, AMERICA IN THE WORLD tells the...

Susan Pryke. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 95) And Index.Categories: Travel Canada ProvincesOntario

Derrick Jensen's most ambitious, important, and best book to date. Publishers Weekly The author, who in earlier books like The Culture of Make Believe dis...

From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. ...

From acclaimed author Scott Eyman comes the fascinating story of how the transition from silent films to ‘talkies’ transformed Hollywood.It was the end ...

*A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer?**A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE**A Washington Post “Book to Read This Summer”**AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK ...

Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017 Washington Post Best Book of 2017 Amazon Editors' Top 100 Pick of the Year Amazon Best Humor and Entertainment Pick of ...

What do we really mean by phrases such as western Canadian political culture, the centrist political culture of Ontario, Red Toryism in the Maritimes, or P...

From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. A birder s...

Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "river of grass," most people considered the area worthless. She brought the world's atten...

The Story of the Greatest Sports Moment of the Twentieth Century Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, ...

National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the...

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the US found itse...

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, ...

Fawn M. Brodie. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [555]-560.Categories: HistoryUnited States

Washington's rise constitutes one of the greatest self-reinventions in history. In his mid-twenties, this third son of a modest Virginia planter had ruined ...

Depicts the efforts of four people to improve the harsh conditions of life in the impoverished and over-populated area of Calcutta, IndiaCategories: Politic...

The American Promise, Value Edition, has long been a favorite with students who value the text’s readability, clear chronology, and lively voices of ordi...

Displaying Gleaming New Shopping Centers And Refurbished Row Houses, Harlem Today Bears Little Resemblance To The Neighborhood Of The Midcentury Urban Crisi...

The Torture Papers document the so-called 'torture memos' and reports which US government officials wrote to prepare the way for, and to document, coercive ...

As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that h...

First published in "Rolling Stone" magazine in 1971, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to th...

In This Book, Historian Judith Walzer Leavitt Tells The Remarkable Story Of Mary Mallon, The Woman Known As Typhoid Mary. Combining Social History With Biog...

In The Summer Of 2010, Photographer Brandon Stanton Began An Ambitious Project -- To Single-handedly Create A Photographic Census Of New York City. The Phot...

Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space HipstersThe dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle...

San Antonio catering company Don Strange of Texas, known across the state as the king of caterers, has earned a reputation for serving delicious, freshly pr...

LIFE 100 Photographs: The Most Important Pictures of All Time And the Stories Behind ThemCategories: HistoryUnited States

On A Winter Day In 1903, In The Outer Banks Of North Carolina, Two Unknown Brothers From Ohio Changed History. But It Would Take The World Some Time To Beli...

"If I could, I would put this book into the hands of every Christian in America." --Dr. David Jeremiah "Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, an...

The Election Happened, Remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-randall, Then Deputy Secretary Of The Department Of Energy. And Then There Was Radio Silence. Across All...

An admirer of Pirate president Barney Dreyfuss, prolific baseball writer Frederick G. Lieb consorted with the club’s biggest stars, christened the legend...

Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity,...

In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows And Mike Wallace Have Written An Epic As Vast And Varied As The City It Chronicles. Drawing On The Work Of Hundreds Of Scholars ...

By Carrie Young.Categories: History United StatesState & Local

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

In Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-–2006, Terry S. Reynolds and Virginia P. Dawson tell the story of Cleveland-Cliffs, th...