Americas category: 34066 books
Driven West
Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
By the acclaimed author of the classic Patriots and Union 1812, this major work of narrative history portrays four of the most turbulent decades in the growth of the American nation.
After the War of 1812, President Andrew Jackson and his successors led the country to its manifest destiny across...
Martin Van Buren
The American Presidents Series: The 8th President, 1837-1841
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2005
The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracy
The first "professional politician" to become president, the slick and dandyish Martin Van Buren was to all appearances the opposite of his predecessor, the rugged general and Democratic...
Jacqueline Kennedy
Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
To mark John F. Kennedy's centennial, celebrate the life and legacy of the 35th President of the United States.
In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded seven historic interviews about her life with John F. Kennedy. Now, for the first time, they can be read in this deluxe, illustrated eBook.
Shortly...
by John Nichols, Senator Bernie Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidate
Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that Americans can take their...
FDR's Folly
How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depression’s destructive effects...
The Clinton Tapes
Wrestling History with the President
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Taylor Branch’s groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes, invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient president. Here is what President Clinton thought and felt but could not say in public.
This book rests upon a secret project, initiated...
The Summer of 1787
The Men Who Invented the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which the founding fathers struggled for four months to produce the Constitution: the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation—then and now.
George Washington presided, James Madison kept the notes, Benjamin Franklin...
by H. W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Though he was a hero of the Revolutionary War, a prominent New York politician, and vice president of the United States, Aaron Burr is today best remembered as the villain who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
But as H. W. Brands demonstrates in this fascinating portrait of one of the most...
Angler
The Cheney Vice Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
The landmark exposé of the most powerful and secretive vice president in American history
Barton Gellman shared the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for a keen-edged reckoning with Dick Cheney's domestic agenda in The Washington Post. In Angler, Gellman goes far beyond that series to take on the full...
Gerald R. Ford
The American Presidents Series: The 38th President, 1974-1977
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
The "accidental" president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisis
When Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War...
Mary's Mosaic
The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace: Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Explores the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer and her connected to President Kennedy
Ideal book for fans of The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much by Dorothy Kilgallen, Dr. Mary’s Monkey by Edward T. Haslam, and other JFK conspiracy books
Updated edition of the true crime...
Madison's Gift
Five Partnerships That Built America
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Historian David O. Stewart restores James Madison to his proper place as the most significant Founding Father and framer of the new nation: “A fascinating look at how one unlikely figure managed to help guide…a precarious confederation of reluctant states to a self-governing republic that has...
Ike and McCarthy
Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The full, little-known story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy is “a gripping, detailed account of how the executive branch subtly but decisively defeated one of America’s most dangerous demagogues” (The Washington...
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1986
The definitive life of Jefferson in one volume, this biography relates Jefferson's private life and thought to his prominent public position and reveals the rich complexity of his development. As Peterson explores the dominant themes guiding Jefferson's career--democracy, nationality, and enlightenment--and...