Americas category: 34066 books
Reagan at Reykjavik
Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland—the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War—by President Reagan’s arms control director, Ken Adelman.
In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour...
Andrew Jackson
His Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
National Bestseller
In this, the first major single-volume biography of Andrew Jackson in decades, H.W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in.
An orphan at a young age and without formal education or the family lineage...
Worthy Fights
A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The New York Times–bestselling autobiography of a legendary political and military leader
It could be said that Leon Panetta has had two of the most consequential careers of any American public servant in the past fifty years. His first career, beginning as an Army intelligence officer and...
The Family
The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
From the First Lady of unauthorized, tell-all biography, this is the first real inside-look at the most powerful–and secretive–family in the world. From Senator Prescott Bush's alcoholism, to his son George Herbert Walker Bush's infidelities, to George Walker Bush's religious conversion, shady...
Lincoln Reconsidered
Essays on the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
A “brilliant” look at America’s sixteenth president by the New York Times–bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln (American Historical Review).
First published in 1956 and revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Lincoln Reconsidered is a masterpiece of Civil...
The Unexpected President
The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
When President James Garfield was shot in 1881, nobody expected Vice President Chester A. Arthur to become a strong and effective president, a courageous anti-corruption reformer, and an early civil rights advocate.
Despite his promising start as a young man, by his early fifties Chester A....
American Brutus
John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fiery end in a Virginia tobacco barn. In the national hysteria that followed, eight others were arrested...
When the Cheering Stopped
The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The poignant true story of an American president struck by tragedy at the height of his glory.
This New York Times bestseller vividly chronicles the stunning decline in Woodrow Wilson’s fortunes after World War I and draws back the curtain on one of the strangest episodes in the history of...
by Bruce Catton
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A concise biography of the legendary Union general and controversial US president from “o****ne of America’s foremost Civil War authorities” (Kirkus Reviews).
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Bruce Catton explores the life and legacy of one of the nation’s most misunderstood heroes:...
Reagan, In His Own Hand
The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2001
Until Alzheimer's disease wreaked its gradual destruction, Ronald Reagan was an inveterate writer. He wrote not only letters, short fiction, poetry, and sports stories, but speeches, newspaper articles, and radio commentary on public policy issues, both foreign and domestic.
Most of Reagan's original...
by Michael Kerrigan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The office of the American President has evolved dramatically over the last 200 years, from George Washington's heroic posturing as leader of a renegade nation, to calculated cunning as commander of a nuclear superpower. This colourful inventory of presidential transgressions reveals that every modern...
Father Lincoln
The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and His Boys--Robert, Eddy, Willie, and Tad
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
President Abraham Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, and an American martyr to the people who read about him. But that was not how his sons knew him. Presidential historian Alan Manning invites readers to see not the thoughtful, burdened president delivering the Gettysburg...
FDR Goes to War
How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
From the acclaimed author of New Deal or Raw Deal?, called “eye-opening” by the National Review, comes a fascinating exposé of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s destructive wartime legacy—and its adverse impact on America’s economic and foreign policies today.
Did World War II really end...
by David L. Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
It is not uncommon to hear Christians argue that America was founded as a Christian nation. But how true is this claim? In this compact book, David L. Holmes offers a clear, concise and illuminating look at the spiritual beliefs of our founding fathers. He begins with an informative account of the...