United States category: 34172 books
How Wars End
Why We Always Fight the Last Battle
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
IN 1991 THE UNITED STATES trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it again. How could this happen? How could the strongest power in modern history fight two wars against the same opponent in just over a decade, win lightning...
Hitler's Generals in America
Nazi POWs and Allied Military Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Americans are familiar with prisoner of war narratives that detail Allied soldiers' treatment at the hands of Germans in World War II: popular books and movies like The Great Escape and Stalag 17 have offered graphic and award-winning depictions of the American POW experience in Nazi camps. Less is...
Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency
From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Throughout American history, Presidents and Presidential candidates have faced countless assassination threats and attempts on their lives. These threats have extended not only to sitting Presidents and candidates but also to Presidents-elect and former Presidents. Assassinations, Threats, and the...
by Justin Slaughter Doty
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
The President of the United States is an office that attracts men of all character. From George Washington to Barack Obama, the office has been held by farmers, scholars, veterans, and lawyers from all regions of the United States. The American Presidency For Beginners tells a concise history of...
A Single Roll of the Dice
Obama's Diplomacy with Iran
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration's emphasis on military intervention, refusal to negotiate, and pursuit of regime change a better approach? How can the United States best address the ongoing turmoil in Tehran? This book provides a...
Arredondo
Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
In this biography of Joaquín de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776–1837), a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces of northeastern New Spain during the Mexican...
Passionate Declarations
Essays on War and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
From the bestselling author of A People's History of the United States comes this selection of passionate, honest, and piercing essays looking at American political ideology.
Howard Zinn brings to Passionate Declarations the same astringent style and provocative point of view that led more...
The Other Alliance
Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Using previously classified documents and original interviews, The Other Alliance examines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these relationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising the standard...
The Terrorist Watch
Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
“You make a mistake, there are dead people.” —FBI Special Agent Art Cummings, head of international counterterrorism operations Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI and CIA counterterrorism operatives, New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler presents the chilling story of terrorists’...
Brief History
Lyndon B. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Lyndon Baines Johnson, known by his initials LBJ, born August 27, 1908 in Stonewall (Texas) where he died on 22 January 1973 was an American statesman, 36th President of the United States (1963-1969), after having been the 37th Vice President (1961-1963). It is one of only four individuals to have...
Letter to a New President
Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
A legendary Senator advises our next President on the commonsense values necessary to lead our nation
United States Senator Robert C. Byrd is the longest-serving member of the United States Senate in the history of our great Republic. Senator Byrd has served the people of West Virginia, and the nation,...
Genesis
Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time—the relationship between the United States and Israel
There has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs—a violent, costly struggle that has had catastrophic repercussions in a critical region...
Making the American Century
Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
The twentieth century has been popularly seen as "the American Century," a long period in which the United States had amassed the economic resources, the political and military strength, and the moral prestige to assume global leadership. By century's end, the trajectory of American politics,...
Catholic Borderlands
Mapping Catholicism onto American Empire, 1905-1935
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In 1905 Rev. Francis Clement Kelley founded the Catholic Church Extension Society of the United States of America. Drawing attention to the common link of religion, Kelley proclaimed the Extension Society’s duty to be that of preventing American Protestant missionaries, public school teachers, and...