Americas category: 34066 books
by Ida M. Tarbell
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln is a classic history of the early years of America's most famous president.
American Girls in Red Russia
Chasing the Soviet Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This...
Company Man
Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The “revealing” (The New Yorker) insider history of the CIA from a lawyer with a “front-row seat on the hidden world of intelligence” (The Washington Post). Former CIA director George J. Tenet called Company Man a “must read.”
Over the course of a thirty-four-year (1976-2009) career,...
Roosevelt the Explorer
T.R.'s Amazing Adventures as a Naturalist, Conservationist, and Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2002
Jeffers' book chronicles Theodore Roosevelt's lifelong quests and expeditions—thrilling and often dangerous journeys that produced much important scientific research and took him across North America, South America, and Africa.
by Godfrey Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is as relevant today as he was when he led civil rights campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s. He was an agent and a prophet of political change in this country, and the election of President Barack Obama is his direct legacy.
Now from one of Britain's most experienced...
Murdering the President
Alexander Graham Bell and the Race to Save James Garfield
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didn’t linger and die. He survived. Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to invent the world’s first metal detector to locate...
Shoot for the Moon
The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
"This is the best book on Apollo that I have read. Extensively researched and meticulously accurate, it successfully traces not only the technical highlights of the program but also the contributions of the extraordinary people who made it possible." -Mike Collins, command module pilot,...
The Wizard of Menlo Park
How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Thomas Edison’s greatest invention? His own fame.
At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon of invention” and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and extending through...
Carrying the Fire
50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moon
The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder...
Dr. Mutter's Marvels
A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities
Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools—or even...
Louis Agassiz
Creator of American Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
“This book is not just about a man of science but also about a scientific culture in the making—warts and all.” —The New York Times Book Review
Charismatic and controversial Swiss immigrant Louis Agassiz took America by storm in the early nineteenth century, becoming a defining force...
The Anatomist
A True Story of Gray's Anatomy
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
The classic medical text known as Gray’s Anatomy is one of the most famous books ever written. Now, on the 150th anniversary of its publication, acclaimed science writer and master of narrative nonfiction Bill Hayes has written the fascinating, never-before-told true story of how this seminal volume...
Anything Your Little Heart Desires
An American Family Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A memoir by the daughter of famous attorney Bartley C. Crum: “A gripping account not only of Crum but of McCarthyism and its devastating effects” (SFGate).
The FBI kept a secret dossier on him. He was a confidante to stars; adviser to politicians; and lawyer to the likes of William Randolph...
Passing Strange
A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
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The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved
Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer once described by Secretary of State John Hay as "the...