Americas category: 34066 books
West of Eden
An American Place
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie
Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol “superstar” Edie...
Queen of the Air
A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the gorgeously written, true story of renowned trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, Queen of the Air, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century, and her star-crossed love affair...
by Norman Lear
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
"This is, flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written… An absolute treasure." --Booklist (STARRED)
In my ninety-plus years I’ve lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front-row seat at the birth of television; wrote, produced, created,...
by George Lamming
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
In a sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados, nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief. While the village lies tranquil in the shadow of its English landlord, Mr Creighton, and his towering house on the hill, G. makes his own fun, crab catching, teasing preachers, and playing among the pumpkin...
The Castle on Sunset
Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
***LA Times Bestseller*
*An Amazon "Best History Books of 2019 So Far" Pick*
"Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight." --Cheryl Strayed
"A fabulously fizzy account." --Vanity Fair
"I want to live inside this book!" --Taylor Jenkins Reid
The...
Stripping Gypsy
The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Whenever stripper Gypsy Rose Lee encountered public criticism, she spoke frankly in her own defense. "Thousands have seen me at my--ah--best; and thousands have made no objections." Noralee Frankel's lively biography, Stripping Gypsy, the first ever published about the highly mythologized...
by John F. Kasson
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
"[An] elucidating cultural history of Hollywood’s most popular child star…a must-read." —Bill Desowitz, USA Today
For four consecutive years she was the world’s box-office champion. With her image appearing in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily, she...
The Grouchy Historian
An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In “an unabashedly biased, deeply researched book” (SF Gate), Ed Asner—the actor who starred as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show—reclaims the Constitution from the right-wingers who think that they and only they know how to interpret it.
Ed Asner, a self-proclaimed dauntless Democrat...
Buffalo Bill's Life Story
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Buffalo Bill lives deep in American legend. A Kansas-bred farm boy, he went on to become a renowned trapper and hunter, army scout, Indian fighter, and finally a world showman and celebrity. As a man of the Wild West, he became known as a larger-than-life buffalo hunter. As an army scout, he earned...
by Ron Chernow
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
**The #1 New York Times bestseller.
New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017**
Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically...
Crazy Horse and Custer
The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A New York Times bestseller from the author of Band of Brothers: The biography of two fighters forever linked by history and the battle at Little Bighorn.
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of Little Bighorn in the Montana...
Dr. Benjamin Rush
The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A gripping, often startling biography of the Founding Father of an America that other Founding Fathers forgot--an America of women, African Americans, Jews, Roman Catholics, Quakers, indentured workers, the poor, the mentally ill, and war veterans
Ninety percent of Americans could not vote...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019
Liberty! brings to life one of the most important and compelling stories in America's history: the struggle for independence and the birth of the nation. New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming's gripping narrative captures the high drama of the revolutionary war years and the unyielding...
Master of the Senate
The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America,...