Americas category: 34066 books
Golden
How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself out of the Governor's Office and into Prison
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Revealing previously unreleased information from the Rod Blagojevich investigation, this narrative—written by two Chicago Tribune reporters who spent years sifting through evidence, compiling documents, and conducting more than 100 interviews with those who have known the former governor—is the...
by Alvaro Uribe Velez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Uno de los líderes mundiales más inspiradores y exitosos de principios del siglo 21 explica cómo un liderazgo audaz e imaginativo puede resolver incluso los problemas más difíciles, y por qué las causas perdidas no existen.
Es uno de los grandes, inesperados y transformadores acontecimientos...
The Arrogance of Power
The Secret World of Richard Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
The controversial *New York Times–*bestselling biography of America’s most infamous president written by a master of investigative political reporting.
Anthony Summers’s towering biography of Richard Nixon reveals a tormented figure whose criminal behavior did not begin with Watergate....
The Teapot Dome Scandal
How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Mix hundreds of millions of dollars in petroleum reserves; rapacious oil barons and crooked politicians; under-the-table payoffs; murder, suicide, and blackmail; White House cronyism; and the excesses of the Jazz Age. The result: the granddaddy of all American political scandals, Teapot Dome.
In...
by John Womack
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
This essential volume recalls the activities of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution; he formed and commanded an important revolutionary force during this conflict. Womack focuses attention on Zapata's activities and his home state of Morelos during the Revolution....
Thomas Jefferson's Creme Brulee
How a Founding Father and His Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
This culinary biography recounts the 1784 deal that Thomas Jefferson struck with his slaves, James Hemings. The founding father was traveling to Paris and wanted to bring James along “for a particular purpose”— to master the art of French cooking. In exchange for James’s cooperation, Jefferson...
Tarnished Victory
Finishing Lincoln's War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
A “full and insightful” account of the Civil War’s final year from the award-winning author of Lee’s Last Retreat (Publishers Weekly).
Beginning with the Virginia and Atlanta campaigns of May 1864 and closing with the final surrender of Confederate forces in June 1865, Tarnished Victory...
Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.
The Lion of Anacostia
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
“Reconstruct[s] Douglass’s life in the nation’s capital, both at home and in the halls of power, in ways that no other biographer has done” (Leigh Fought, author of Women in the World of Frederick Douglass**).**
The remarkable journey of Frederick Douglass from fugitive slave to famed...
LBJ
The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The explosive true story of how a deranged Lyndon Johnson conspired to murder the President of the United States.
LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination aims to prove that Vice President Johnson played an active role in the assassination of President Kennedy and that he began planning...
Ike's Spies
Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
This classic Cold War-era history looks at the way President Dwight Eisenhower managed America’s secret operations as general and as commander in chief and is based on privileged access to the president and his private papers—from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose.
During his time...
Dark Victory
Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
A “smoldering indictment” of the corrupt influences that rescued Ronald Reagan's career, made him millions, and shaped his presidency (Library Journal)****.
Founded in 1924, the Music Corporation of America got its start booking acts into speakeasies run by such notorious Chicago mobsters...
Yours in Truth
A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
An intimate profile of the legendary Washington Post editor whose life and career encompassed Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the Kennedys—as portrayed by Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film The Post
“A fairly complete and rare portrait of this last of the lion-king newspaper editors.”—The...
Reagan's Secret War
The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
On February 6, 1981, at his first National Security Council meeting, Ronald Reagan told his advisers: “I will make the decisions.” As Reagan’s Secret War reveals, these words provide the touchstone for understanding the extraordinary accomplishments of the Reagan administration, including the...
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense
The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Mental Floss Book to Read in Summer 2019
“Gripping.… Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense is a must-read.” —NPR
A President on Trial. A Reputation at Stake.
ABC News legal correspondent and host of LIVE PD Dan Abrams reveals the story of Teddy Roosevelt’s last...