Americas category: 34066 books
Eleanor and Hick
The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok—a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history
In 1932, as her...
Washington
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
A gripping portrait of the first president of the United States from the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical.
Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president...
Ike's Bluff
President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust.
Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a...
by Ron Chernow
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
**A New York Times Bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.**
In the...
U. S. Grant: The Civil War Years
Grant Moves South and Grant Takes Command
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Bruce Catton’s acclaimed two-book biography of complex and controversial Union commander Ulysses S. Grant.
In these two comprehensive and engaging volumes, preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton follows the wartime movements of Ulysses S. Grant, detailing...
Hunting Che
How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolution ary
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The hunt for Ernesto “Che” Guevera was one of the first successful U.S. Special Forces missions in history. Using government reports and documents, as well as eyewitness accounts, Hunting Che tells the untold story of how the infamous revolutionary was captured—a mission later duplicated in...
by Richard Adams
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
'Call Traveller, and you will get home safely'. 'Traveller' is the story of the American Civil war as seen through the eyes of Traveller, famous horse of the great Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Now old and in retirement in the stable of his master, the beautiful iron-grey Traveller relates the story...
Hitler's Commando
The Daring Missions of Otto Skorzeny and the Nazi Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
He was one of the smartest, toughest, most courageous soldiers to fight in World War II. A hero to all who knew him. And he was a Nazi . . .
Otto Skorzeny was Germany’s top commando in the Second World War—and one of the most famous men in the history of special forces. His extraordinary...
by Sarah Vowell
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington’s trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette.
Chronicling General Lafayette’s years in...
Charles Goodnight
Cowman and Plainsman
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
An exciting story of a Texas Ranger, adventurer, and immigration officer who became a symbol of his age while gambling with death in the wild frontier regions of Texas, Arizona, and Old and New Mexico. Charles Goodnight knew the West of Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Dick Wooton, St. Vrain, and Lucien Maxwell....
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019
"Charles Mee has recreated the vivid drama of 1787 . . . Genius of the People is an absorbing look at the incomparable personalities who brought us our Constitution." - Michael Beschloss. Genius of the People is a timely account of the birth of America's national government during the Constitutional...
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
Memory and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the...
Fierce Patriot
The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape—and the American character.
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America’s first “celebrity”...
Book of Ages
The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
National Book Award Finalist
From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd...