Americas category: 34066 books
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming brings his extraordinary biographical talents to bear upon Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the least understood of America's revolutionary giants. For this reappraisal, Fleming concentrates on the mature Franklin, the man who lived nearly thirty years...
Empires of Light
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays...
American Jezebel
The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
In 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic...
The Admirals
Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power.
Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These...
Stamped from the Beginning
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than...
The Immortal Irishman
The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
**"An old-fashioned tale of tall talk, high ideals,and irresistible appeal . . . You will not read a historical thriller like this all year . . . [Egan] is a master storyteller." —Boston Globe
“Egan has a gift for sweeping narrative . . . and he has a journalist’s eye for the...
33 Men
Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin chronicles the harrowing account of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for fourteen weeks in the fall of 2010.
Franklin, with his renowned eye for detail and dialogue, captures the remarkable story of these men to reveal to the world how they used their native talents to survive against all odds in a savage environment.
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
This vivid, deeply moving book begins in London in 1620 as Pilgrim representatives sign a contract to purchase the freighter Mayflower. We accompany them on their harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, through the rigors of the first New England winter and the threat of Indian attack as they desperately...
by David Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leaders
The American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against each other,...
Islands of the Damned
A Marine at War in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
**A remarkable eyewitness account of the most brutal combat of the Pacific War, from Peleliu to Okinawa, this is the true story of R.V. Burgin, the real-life World War II Marine Corps hero featured in HBO®'s The Pacific.
“Read his story and marvel at the man...and those like him.”—Tom...
Wicked Women
Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West’s most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled-doves, and other wicked women by offers a glimpse into Western Women’s experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. Pulling together stories of ladies...
by Edmund Morris
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased...
by Rick Bragg
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a national bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born...
J. D. Salinger
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The inspiration for the major motion picture Rebel in the Rye
One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, the author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now he is the subject...