Americas category: 34066 books
Guest of Honor
Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
In this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner becomes a lens through which to examine race, politics, and the lives and legacies of two of America’s most iconic figures.
In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to have dinner at the executive...
Deadly Deceits
My 25 Years in the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency unmasks its culture of lethal lies in this devastating exposé, now with a new foreword by David MacMichael.
Ralph W. McGehee was a patriot, dedicated to the American way of life and the international fight against Communism. Following his graduation...
by Robert A. Caro
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This account of the Kennedy assassination ("the most riveting ever," says The New York Times) is taken from Robert A. Caro's brilliant and bestselling The Passage of Power.
Here is that tragic day in Dallas alive with startling details reported for the first time by the two-time...
The Nixon Defense
What He Knew and When He Knew It
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Based on Nixon’s overlooked recordings, New York Times bestselling author John W. Dean connects the dots between what we’ve come to believe about Watergate and what actually happened
Watergate forever changed American politics, and in light of the revelations about the NSA’s widespread...
A Thousand Days
John F. Kennedy in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2002
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: “Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best.” —Time
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy’s tragic and unexpected...
The Southern Tiger
Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos provides a fascinating glimpse inside his country's meteoric rise on the world stage. A leader in the underground resistance movement against Augusto Pinochet and his Dirty War, Ricardo Lagos burst onto the national stage in 1988 when he gave a speech denouncing...
In Defense of Thomas Jefferson
The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
The belief that Thomas Jefferson had an affair and fathered a child (or children) with slave Sally Hemings---and that such an allegation was proven by DNA testing—has become so pervasive in American popular culture that it is not only widely accepted but taught to students as historical fact. But...
La Lucha
The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
A front-line human rights defender fighting murderous impunity in the Mexican borderlands
The Mexican border state of Chihuahua and its city Juárez have become notorious the world over as hotbeds of violence. Drug cartel battles and official corruption result in more murders annually in Chihuahua...
Thomas Jefferson - Revolutionary
A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
"In this lively and clearly written book, Kevin Gutzman makes a compelling case for the broad range and radical ambitions of Thomas Jefferson's commitment to human equality." - Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winning author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Though...
by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
For a man who grew up to become the Bull Moose, Teddy Roosevelt was a sickly child, suffering from asthma and other maladies. But his physical weakness actually drove him to be more active, which also fostered an interest in nature. It also helped that Teddys family was wealthy, allowing him privileges...
Chester Alan Arthur
The American Presidents Series: The 21st President, 1881-1885
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2004
The Gilded Age bon vivant who became America's unlikeliest chief executive-and who presided over a sweeping reform of the system that nurtured him
Chester Alan Arthur never dreamed that one day he would be president of the United States. A successful lawyer, Arthur had been forced out as the...
by Carlos Franqui
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Born in Havana on February 6 1932 into an immigrant working-class family of Spanish anarchists, Camilo Cienfuegos —who firmly believed in the libertarian tenets of anarchism (if not himself an anarchist) — will, forever, be inseparably linked to the idealistic period of the Cuban Revolution of...
Abraham Lincoln
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2002
The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth
The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very heart of American history. But who was he,...
Nixon & Rockefeller
A Double Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A fascinating analysis of two of the most important figures in 1960s American politics, written during their battle for the GOP presidential nomination.
Richard Milhous Nixon was one of the most controversial politicians in America’s history: a California congressman, senator, vice president,...