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Taking Hawaii
How Thirteen Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, With a Bluff
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of rebel Honolulu businessmen—American,...
The Moralist
Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Acclaimed author Patricia O’Toole’s “superb” (The New York Times) account of Woodrow Wilson, one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents. A “gripping” (USA TODAY) biography, The Moralist is “an essential contribution to presidential history” (Booklist,...
Beautiful Country Burn Again
Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisis
Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it...
The Heart of Everything That Is
The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
An acclaimed New York Times bestseller, selected by Salon as a best book of the year, the astonishing untold story of the life and times of Sioux warrior Red Cloud: “a page-turner with remarkable immediacy…and the narrative sweep of a great Western” (The Boston Globe).
Red Cloud was the...
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
In James Madison and the Making of America, historian Kevin Gutzman looks beyond the way James Madison is traditionally seen -- as "The Father of the Constitution" -- to find a more complex and sometimes contradictory portrait of this influential Founding Father and the ways in which he...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
This book attempts to present an organizational history of Military Intelligence in the United States Army from its beginnings to the present. It makes no pretense at discussing the operational aspects of intelligence in detail, partially due to the continuing need to safeguard intelligence sources...
The Yanks Are Coming!
A Military History of the United States in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Bestselling military historian H. W. Crocker III (The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, Robert E. Lee on Leadership, etc.) now turns his guns on the epic story of America’s involvement in the First World War with his new book The Yanks Are Coming: A Military History of the United States...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Based in part on his own writings, this is the true story about one of America’s most beloved leaders. From president of the board of New York City Police Commissioners, secretary of the Navy, founder of the Rough Riders during the war with Cuba, his time as the governor of New York, to vice president...
Paradise Now
The Story of American Utopianism
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
For readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism—and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentric visions for the future put forward by five of history’s most influential utopian movements.
In...
by Edgar Stanton Maclay
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Historians tell us that the United States Navy was founded on October 13, 1775. But was it?
In the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, the government employed a total 70 warships, carrying 1,800 guns and swivels. In those same two wars there were 1,300 privateers operating with almost 16,000...
by Rodney Stich
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This book on the FBI is a personal story supplement to the book, Crimes of the FBI-DOJ, and the Mafia. It is the story of a highly decorated Vietnam helicopter pilot, an FBI agent in the New York area, Richard Taus, who discovered major areas of criminal misconduct in government offices. His attempts...
by Gary J. Kornblith
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic, 1776–1821 focuses on slavery as a moral and political issue that threatened the unity and stability of the United States from the nation's inception. In tracing the story of slavery in America's history from 1776 through the Missouri Compromise,...
by Dr. Eric R. Jackson, Richard Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Nearly a century after the American Revolution, the waters of the Ohio River provided a real and complex barrier for the United States to navigate. While this waterway was a symbol of freedom and equality for thousands of enslaved black Americans who had escaped from the horrible institution of enslavement,...
George Washington
First in War, First in Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Between 1753, when he was commissioned as a major of Virginia militia, and 1775, when the Second Continental Congress named him Commander-in-Chief of all colonial military forces, George Washington rose from anonymity as a minor landowner and surveyor to become America's first national hero.
With...