Americas category: 34066 books
The First of Men
A Life of George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Written by John Ferling, one of America's leading historians of the Revolutionary era, The First of Men offers an illuminating portrait of George Washington's life, with emphasis on his military and political career. Here is a riveting account that captures Washington in all his complexity, recounting...
Bulletins from Dallas
Reporting the JFK Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
An in-depth look at Pulitzer Prize–winning White House reporter Merriman Smith and his biggest story: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Thanks to one reporter’s skill, we can fix the exact moment on November 22, 1963, when the world stopped and held its breath: At 12:34 p.m....
A Son of Thunder
Patrick Henry and the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
An in-depth biography of the iconic American revolutionary that “helps us understand the significance of Henry’s enduring image” (The New York Times Book Review).
Patrick Henry was a charismatic orator whose devotion to the pursuit of liberty fueled the fire of the American Revolution...
by Rupert Colley
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Midnight, Tuesday 6 June 1944: the beginning of D-Day, the operation to invade Nazi-occupied Western Europe and initiate the final phase of World War II. A vast undertaking, it involved 12,000 aircraft and an amphibious assault of almost 7,000...
Collapse of Dignity
The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight Against Greed and Corruption in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
New York Times bestseller: This story of a disaster that killed dozens of workers is “a damning account of how misused power can cost lives and wreak havoc” (Publishers Weekly).
In the early morning hours of February 19, 2006, a sudden blast shook a coal mine in northern Mexico, trapping...
by Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
"An important book…[R]ichly rewarding. It is full of fascinating insights about Jefferson." —Gordon S. Wood, New York Review of Books
Hailed by critics and embraced by readers, "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs" is one of the richest and most insightful accounts of Thomas...
When the World Seemed New
George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest shock to international affairs since World War II. In that perilous moment, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and regimes throughout Eastern Europe and Asia teetered between democratic change and new authoritarian rule. President Bush faced a world in...
Boss
Richard J. Daley of Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1988
"The best book ever written about an American city, by the best journalist of his time.”— Jimmy Breslin
New edition of the classic story of the late Richard J. Daley, politician and self-promoter extraordinaire, from his inauspicious youth on Chicago’s South Side through his rapid...
Hit List
An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Richard Belzer and David Wayne are back to set the record straight after Dead Wrong; this time they’re going to uncover the truth about the many witness deaths tied to the JFK assassination. For decades, government pundits have dismissed these “coincidental” deaths, even regarding them as “myths”...
Abraham Lincoln
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript...
Eisenhower
Soldier and President
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president.
He gives us a masterly account of the European war theater...
Wrestling With His Angel
The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The “magisterial” (The New York Times Book Review) second volume of Sidney Blumenthal’s acclaimed, landmark biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, reveals the future president’s genius during the most decisive period of his political life when he seizes the moment, finds his voice,...
Feeding on Dreams
Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
“A beautifully crafted, searing memoir” about fleeing Chile after the Pinochet coup, and the exile’s yearning for home (Kirkus Reviews).
“A multifaceted journey that is geographical, personal and political . . . A complex, nuanced view of United States–Latin American politics and relations...
The Little School
Tales of Disappearance and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared," Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Her writings were smuggled out of prison and published anonymously in human rights...