Americas category: 34066 books
First Force Recon Company
Sunrise at Midnight
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
In 1st Force Recon you performed at a very high level of proficiency. Or you died. . . .
In 1969, First Lieutenant Bill Peters and the Force Recon Marines had one of the most difficult, dangerous assignments in Vietnam. From the DMZ to the Central Highlands, their job was to provide strategic...
My Thoughts Be Bloody
The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged by the Union victory and the prospect...
Valiant Ambition
George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
**A surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold, from the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye.
"May be one of the greatest...
Hoover
An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
**"An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed." —The Wall Street Journal
The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans...
The Witch of Lime Street
Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
History comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal.
The 1920s are famous as the golden age of jazz and glamour, but it was...
by Jack E. Levin, Mark R. Levin
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The #1 New York Times bestselling book for many weeks, Jack Levin presents a beautifully designed account of George Washington’s historic crossing of the Delaware River and the decisive Battle of Trenton, with a foreword by his son, #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin.
With...
Here Lies Hugh Glass
A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glass's fellows rushed to his aid and slew the bear, but Glass's injuries mocked their first aid. The expedition leader arranged for his funeral: two men would stay behind to...
by Davidson Butler
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
In 1826, Thomas Jefferson was laid to rest at Monticello beside his wife and daughters. His epitaph, which he composed, reads, "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and father of the University...
Beyond Their Years
Stories of Sixteen Civil War Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Sometimes a war's greatest heroes are its survivors, those who manage to forge new lives despite the tragedy they have experienced. For the sixteen unsung heroes profiled in Beyond Their Years, surviving also meant surrendering their childhood. These children found themselves on the edge of the fray...
The Audacity of Inez Burns
Dreams, Desire, Treachery & Ruin in the City of Gold
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
THE VIVID, SCANDAL-FILLED STORY OF A SHREWD, RAGS-TO-RICHES MILLIONAIRESS AND THE RUTHLESS POLITICIAN WHO PURSUED HER, TOLD AGAINST THE EFFERVESCENT BACKDROP OF AMERICA’S GOLDEN CITY—SAN FRANCISCO.
San Francisco, until the mid-1940s, was a city that lived by its own rules, fast and loose....
Rebel Yell
The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic national hero.
Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate...
Geronimo
His Own Story: The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
“I am thankful that the President of the United States has given me permission to tell my story. I hope that he and those in authority under him will read my story and judge whether my people have been rightly treated.”—Geronimo
This book contains one of the most extraordinary and invaluable...
by Ralph K. Andrist
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Andrew Jackson - war hero and spokesman for the frontier, the first president from west of the Alleghenies, the first born in a log cabin - fought his way to the White House. Once there, he stood for the rights of common citizens, founded the Democratic Party, expanded the powers of the presidency,...
A Country of Vast Designs
James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book
Robert Merry's brilliant and highly acclaimed history of a crucial epoch in U.S. history—the presidency of James K. Polk, "our most underrated president" (Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein).
In a one-term presidency,...