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The New Deal
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal began as a program of short-term emergency relief measures and evolved into a truly transformative concept of the federal government’s role in Americans’ lives. More than an economic recovery plan, it was a reordering of the political system that continues to define...
Football for a Buck
The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
From a multiple New York Times bestselling author, the rollicking, outrageous, you-can’t-make-this-up story of the USFL
The United States Football League—known fondly to millions of sports fans as the USFL—was the last football league to not merely challenge the NFL, but cause its owners...
Building the Skyline
The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles...
by Christopher Hitchens
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement
In Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class provocateur Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry...
by Kahlil Gibran
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
An early collection of Kahlil Gibran’s writings showcases the many styles of this prolific thinker, all profoundly beautiful
Kahlil Gibran reveals his vision of the soul and understanding of the world—past, present, and future—in this rich sampling of more than twenty works....
The Carter Journals
Time Travels in Early U.S. History
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
When fourteen-year-old Cody Carter’s grandfather gives him a box of dusty leather journals written by their Carter ancestors, even the history-loving Cody could not have predicted the adventure he was about to take. Journal by journal, Cody is physically transported back in time to experience the...
West from Appomattox
The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
“This thoughtful, engaging examination of the Reconstruction Era . . . will be appealing . . . to anyone interested in the roots of present-day American politics” (Publishers Weekly).
The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. In many...
Brooklyn By Name
How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Visit the blog for the book at www.brooklynbyname.comFrom Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. Uncovering the remarkable stories behind the landmarks, Brooklyn By Name takes readers on a stroll through the streets and places...
The Third Coast
When Chicago Built the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
**Winner of the Chicago Tribune‘s 2013 Heartland Prize
A critically acclaimed history of Chicago at mid-century, featuring many of the incredible personalities that shaped American culture**
Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop in Chicago,...
Getting Religion
Faith, Culture, and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Ascent of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
"In this thoughtful book, Ken Woodward offers us a memorable portrait of the past seven decades of American life and culture. From Reinhold Niebuhr to Billy Graham, from Abraham Heschel to the Dali Lama, from George W. Bush to Hillary Clinton, Woodward captures the personalities and charts the...
by Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
This book contains slave narratives from Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Reverend Noah Davis, Josiah Henson, James W. C. Pennington, John Thompson, and Henry Watson, all of whom had major connections to Maryland. It also contains twenty-two additional slave narratives collected by...
Prophet's Prey
My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the conviction of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the page-turning, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a façade...
97 Orchard
An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
“Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrative of New York’s immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family...
The Grand Inquisitor's Manual
A History of Terror in the Name of God
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The Surprising History and Legacy of the Inquisition
The renowned historian and critic Jonathan Kirsch presents a sweeping history of the Inquisition and the ways in which it has served as the chief model for torture in the West to this day. Ranging from the Knights Templar to the first Protestants;...