Americas category: 34066 books
Our Man in Charleston
Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Between the Confederacy and recognition by Great Britain stood one unlikely Englishman who hated the slave trade. His actions helped determine the fate of a nation.
When Robert Bunch arrived in Charleston to take up the post of British consul in 1853, he was young and full of ambition, but...
by Jean Edward Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2001
Ulysses S. Grant was the first four-star general in the history of the United States Army and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. As general in chief, Grant revolutionized modern warfare. Rather than capture enemy territory...
Dear Abigail
The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
For readers of the historical works of Robert K. Massie, David McCulough, and Alison Weir comes the first biography on the life of Abigail Adams and her sisters.
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“Never sisters loved each other better than we.”—Abigail Adams in a letter to her sister Mary, June 1776
Much has been written...
by David Herbert Donald
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.
Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois,...
Samuel Adams
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
In this stirring biography, Samuel Adams joins the first tier of founding fathers, a rank he has long deserved. With eloquence equal to that of Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine, and with a passionate love of God, Adams helped ignite the flame of liberty and made sure it glowed even during the Revolution's...
by Burke Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
A New York Times–bestselling author’s account of the devastating military campaign that broke the Confederacy’s back in the last months of the Civil War.
In November 1864, just days after the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln, Gen. William T. Sherman vowed to “make Georgia howl.”...
by Marguerite Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
"Randel is endlessly fascinating, and Holloway’s biography tells his life with great skill." —Steve Weinberg, USA Today
John Randel Jr. (1787–1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central...
The Last Founding Father
James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
From the New York Times bestselling author, the larger than life story of America's fifth president, who transformed a small, fragile nation into a powerful empire
In this compelling biography, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals the epic story of James Monroe (1758-1831)-the last...
Dido Elizabeth Belle
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Dido Elizabeth Belle was born in 1761. It would be nearly 100 years before slavery was abolished. The date would be of little importance if not for one important factor: Belle's father was white, but her mother was African. It was an unthinkable act for the time, and Belle's life was destined for...
George Washington's War
The Forging of a Revolutionary Leader and the American Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
The American Revolution was won not on the battlefields, but in the mind of George Washington. A compulsively readable narrative and extensive history, George Washington's War illuminates how during the war's winter months the young general created a new model of leadership that became the model for the American presidency.
Class-29
The Making of U.S. Navy SEALs
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
"Throughout training I kept having the thought,
WELL, ALL THEY CAN DO IS KILL ME.
It seemed to help."
SEALs are the world's toughest soldiers. Working in squads and platoons that make up SEAL teams, they are trained in everything from underwater demolition to high-altitude...
Water to the Angels
William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.
In 1907,...
Frederick Douglass
Prophet of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
**Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History**
*Winner of the Bancroft, Parkman, Los Angeles Times (biography), Lincoln, Plutarch, and Christopher Awards***
Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Chicago...
by Henry Moscow
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
President Thomas Jefferson wrote America's Declaration of Independence, but he also was an anthropologist, architect, astronomer, botanist, diplomat, farmer, inventor, lawyer, mathematician, and musician. He spoke French, Greek, Italian, Latin, and Spanish. He founded the University of Virginia and...