Americas category: 34066 books
by Andrew Burstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Most people vaguely imagine Andrew Jackson as a jaunty warrior and a man of the people, but he was much more—a man just as complex and controversial as Jefferson or Lincoln. Now, with the first major reinterpretation of his life in a generation, historian Andrew Burstein brings back Jackson with...
Exploring Lewis and Clark
Reflections on Men and Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the continent and back again. Uncovering deeper meanings in the explorers’ journals and lives, Exploring Lewis and Clark exposes their self-perceptions and deceptions, and how they interacted...
Geronimo
My Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
In this, one of Native American history's most extraordinary documents, a legendary warrior and shaman recounts the beliefs and customs of his people. Completely and utterly authentic, its captivating narrator is the most famous member of the Apache tribe: Geronimo.
The spiritual and intellectual...
by Rafael Tovar y de Teresa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Ensayo sobre el último año en el poder de Porfirio Díaz.
Del autor de la novela Paraíso es tu memoria, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa.
El último brindis de Don Porfirio, ilustrado con más de 150 imágenes, muchas de ellas inéditas, es la crónica del último año de un gobernante que...
Rooster
The Life and Times of the Real Rooster Cogburn, the Man Who Inspired True Grit
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
“Fans of frontier arcana will revel” in this biography of the Arkansas cowboy, outlaw, and immortal Wild West frontiersman (Publishers Weekly).
Celebrated in Charles Portis’s classic novel and three hit films, the real “Rooster” Cogburn was as bold, brash, and bigger-than-life as...
by Owen Chase
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
On November 20, 1820, Owen Chase was the First Mate of the Whale-Ship "Essex" when it was struck by an enraged Sperm Whale and sunk, stranding the crew in tiny whale-boats 2000 miles away from land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Of the 21 men who entered the 3 flimsy whale-boats, only...
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington
Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The “compelling…modern and readable perpective” (USA TODAY) of Robert E. Lee, the brilliant soldier bound by marriage to George Washington’s family but turned by war against Washington’s crowning achievement, the Union.
On the eve of the Civil War, one soldier embodied the legacy...
Behind the Scenes
or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
Originally published in 1868—when it was attacked as an “indecent book” authored by a “traitorous eavesdropper”—Behind the Scenes is the story of Elizabeth Keckley, who began her life as a slave and became a privileged witness to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Keckley bought her freedom...
by James B. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
From Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart comes the extraordinary story of American hero Rick Rescorla, Morgan Stanley security director and a veteran of Vietnam and the British colonial wars in Rhodesia, who lost his life on September 11.
Heart of a Soldier is the extraordinary story of...
by Theodore Kazimiroff
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
As recently as 1924, a lone Algonquin Indian lived quietly in Pelham Bay Park, a wild and isolated corner of New York City. Joe Two Trees was the last of his people, and this is the gripping story of his bitter struggle, remarkable courage, and constant quest for dignity and peace.
By the 1840s,...
Douglas MacArthur
American Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation’s great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim—from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill
Douglas MacArthur was arguably...
Facundo
Or, Civilization and Barbarism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization...
by William J. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
From a distinguished historian of the American South comes this thoroughly human portrait of the complex man at the center of our nation's most epic struggle.
Jefferson Davis initially did not wish to leave the Union—as the son of a veteran of the American Revolution and as a soldier and...
Embattled Rebel
Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
**From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy
“The best concise book we have on the subject… McPherson is… our most distinguished scholar of the Civil War era.” —The New York...