Americas category: 34066 books
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This “lively biography” (The New Yorker) is the first to tell the story of Julia Ward Howe as a powerful feminist pioneer.
Julia Ward (1819-1910) was an heiress who married a handsome accomplished doctor who worked with the blind and deaf. But Samuel Howe wasted her inheritance, mistreated...
Rosicrucian Park Celebrates 90 Years!
Rosicrucian Digest
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest celebrates the 90th Anniversary of Rosicrucian Park.
Freak Kingdom
Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The story of Hunter S. Thompson's crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price he paid for it
Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless...
Every Day by the Sun
A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
In Every Day by the Sun, Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted murderers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent,...
by Rupert Lewis (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Richard Hart’s constant quest for political autonomy, decolonisation and regional unity has earned him a space in the annals of history as one of Jamaica’s leading nationalist figures and as a vital contributor to the Caribbean integration movement. As a key proponent of social, political and...
Vasconcelos of Mexico
Philosopher and Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
José Vasconcelos—lawyer, politician, writer, educator, philosopher, prophet, and mystic—was one of the most influential and controversial figures in the intellectual life of twentieth-century Mexico. Vasconcelos was driven by the desire to gain a complete and comprehensive vision of reality,...
The Enlightened Joseph Priestley
A Study of His Life and Work from 1773 to 1804
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his two-volume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published in 1997, covered the first forty years of Joseph Priestley’s life in England. In this second volume, Schofield surveys the...
by Dan Abrams, David Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Instant New York Times bestseller!
A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2018
A Suspense Magazine Best Book of 2018
A Mental Floss Best Book of 2018
A USA Today **Top 10 Hot Book for Summer
“Makes you feel as if you are watching a live camera riveted on a courtroom more...
Zachary Taylor
The American Presidents Series: The 12th President, 1849-1850
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War
Zachary Taylor was a soldier's soldier, a man who lived up to his nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." Having risen through the...
The Book of Joe
The Life, Wit, and (Sometimes Accidental) Wisdom of Joe Biden
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The ultimate guide to the former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, filled with all the fun, all the inspiration, and none of the malarkey.
The aviators. The Amtrak. The Obama bromance. Few politicians are as iconic, or as beloved, as Joe Biden. Now, inThe Book...
Barbara Bush
Presidential Matriarch
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Wife of one president and mother of another, Barbara Bush was an outspoken first lady who looked more like her constituents than did her predecessors. A White House resident for only four years, she nevertheless became and remains one of the most admired women in the world.
This new look at...
Playing with Fire
The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today
The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O’Donnell’s...
Our Man
Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
**"Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be...
A Man and His Presidents
The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A new understanding of the man who changed the face of American politics William F. Buckley Jr. is widely regarded as the most influential American conservative writer, activist, and organizer in the postwar era. In this nuanced biography, Alvin Felzenberg sheds light on little-known aspects of Buckley’s...