Americas category: 34066 books
by John Steinbeck
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1980
An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in a deluxe centennial edition
In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass...
Agony and Eloquence
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a World of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The drama of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson is the foundational story of America-courage, loyalty, hope, fanaticism, greatness, failure, forgiveness, love.
Agony and Eloquence is the story of the greatest friendship in American history and the revolutionary times in which it was made, ruined,...
The Threat
How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
#1 New York Times Bestseller
#1 Washington Post Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position...
by Joe Torre, Tom Verducci
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
The definitive story of one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, Joe Torre's New York Yankees.
When Joe Torre took over as manager of the Yankees in 1996, they had not won a World Series title in eighteen years. In that time seventeen others had tried to take the helm of America’s...
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
“A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . Egan’s spirited biography might just bring [Curtis] the recognition that eluded him in life.” — Washington Post
Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer,...
Higher
A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.
In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce...
The Man in the Glass House
Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A "smoothly written and fair-minded" (Wall Street Journal) biography of architect Philip Johnson--a finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award
When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable--and influential--figures on the American...
Painter in a Savage Land
The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
In this vibrantly told, meticulously researched book, Miles Harvey reveals one of the most fascinating and overlooked lives in American history. Like The Island of Lost Maps, his bestselling book about a legendary map thief, Painter in a Savage Land is a compelling search into the mysteries of the...
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity--passionate, risk-taking,...
by Helen Cody Wetmore, Zane Grey
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
The life story of Colonel William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," as told by his sister and Zane Grey. It begins with his boyhood in Iowa and his first encounter with an Indian. We see "Bill" as a pony express rider, then near Fort Sumter as Chief of the Scouts, and later engaged in the...
The Broken Spoke
Austin's Legendary Honky-Tonk
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
James and Annetta White opened the Broken Spoke in 1964, then a mile south of the Austin city limits, under a massive live oak, and beside what would eventually become South Lamar Boulevard. White built the place himself, beginning construction on the day he received his honorable discharge from the...
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Woman behind the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Although generations of readers of the Little House books are familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s early life up through her first years of marriage to Almanzo Wilder, few know about her adult years. Going beyond previous studies, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder focuses upon Wilder’s years in Missouri...
Lee's Last Campaign
The Story of Lee and His Men Against Grant-1864
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A “superbly perceptive” portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee as he desperately led the Confederate army through the final year of the Civil War (*LibraryJournal*).**
By May 1864, Gen. Robert E. Lee had been transformed from a reluctant man who chose to fight for his state over his country into...
by Johnny Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
On Gay Pride Day in 1973, someone set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, thirty-two people lost their lives, including a third of the local congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, their pastor burning to death halfway out a second-story...