Americas category: 34066 books
Reckoning with Reagan
America and Its President in the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 1994
At the height of Ronald Reagan's popularity in July 1986, Time magazine wrote glowingly of how he had "found America's sweet spot." Reagan seemed a "magician who carries a bright, ideal America like a holograph in his mind and projects its image in the air." Not since the rhapsody...
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan
A History of the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
A controversial look at Reagan's role in ending the Cold War- from the author of The New York Times bestseller Rise of the Vulcans
In his surprising new book, critically lauded author James Mann trains his keen analytical eye on Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union, shedding new light on the...
First Mothers
The Women Who Shaped the Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Bonnie Angelo, a veteran reporter and writer for Time, has captured the daily lives, thoughts, and feelings of the remarkable women who played such a large role in developing the characters of the modern American presidents. From formidably aristocratic Sara Delano Roosevelt to diehard Democrat Martha...
William Henry Harrison
The American Presidents Series: The 9th President,1841
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
The president who served the shortest term—just a single month—but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America's highest office
William Henry Harrison died just thirty-one days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity in American...
Friends Divided
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
**A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation,...
Álvaro Obregón
Fuego y cenizas de la Revolución Mexicana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Centrada sobre todo en la gestión de Obregón como líder triunfante, como presidente y como caudillo, esta biografía profundiza en temas como los conflictos políticos internos y externos que él tuvo que enfrentar. Inteligencia, astucia, voluntad de mando y momento histórico decisivo se juntan...
Avenging the People
Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Most Americans know Andrew Jackson as a frontier rebel against political and diplomatic norms, a "populist" champion of ordinary people against the elitist legacy of the Founding Fathers. Many date the onset of American democracy to his 1829 inauguration. Despite his reverence for the "sovereign...
Signing Their Lives Away
The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men risked their lives and livelihood to defy King George III and sign the Declaration of Independence—yet how many of them do we actually remember? Signing Their Lives Away introduces readers to the eclectic group of statesmen, soldiers, slaveholders, and scoundrels...
by Joe Eszterhas
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2001
If the Watergate scandal was a previous generation's National Nightmare, then maybe the Clinton scandal was our National Wet Dream, and who better to narrate it than the screenwriter Joe Eszterhas? In American Rhapsody, Eszterhas, whose credits include Basic Instinct and Showgirls, and Charlie...
Agent 110
An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The “lively and engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) story of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles built an underground network determined to take down Hitler and destroy the Third Reich.
Agent 110 is Allen Dulles, a newly minted spy from an eminent family. From his townhouse in Bern, Switzerland,...
Nixon Agonistes
The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
With a new preface: A “stunning” analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg (The New York Times Book Review).
In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon’s infamous “enemies list,” Garry Wills takes...
White House Confidential
The Little Book of Weird Presidential History
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
An irreverent look at Presidential foibles, follies, fibs, and moral failures
Were past presidents smarter, more honest, and better behaved that those we elect today? Don’t bet on it! White House Confidential shows that commanders-in-chief have been lying, cheating, stealing, and womanizing...
by Jean Edward Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a “comprehensive and compelling” (The New York Times) life of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself—most disastrously in invading...
A Self-Made Man
The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincoln—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliation—“engaging and informative and…thought-provoking” (The Christian Science Monitor).
From his youth as...