Americas category: 34066 books
The Long, Bitter Trail
Andrew Jackson and the Indians
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
An account of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830, which relocated Eastern Indians to the Okalahoma Territory over the Trail of Tears, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs which was given control over their lives.
The Greatest Comeback
How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Patrick J. Buchanan, bestselling author and senior advisor to Richard Nixon, tells the definitive story of Nixon's resurrection from the political graveyard and his rise to the presidency.
After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the...
Where They Stand
The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
The author of the acclaimed biography of President James Polk, A Country of Vast Designs, offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing “Rating the Presidents,” by pitching historians’ views and subsequent experts’ polls against the judgment and votes of the presidents’ own contemporaries.
Merry...
Good Hunting
An American Spymaster's Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
"A sophisticated, deeply informed account of real life in the real CIA that adds immeasurably to the public understanding of the espionage culture—the good and the bad." —Bob Woodward
Jack Devine ran Charlie Wilson's War in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action of the...
The Secret Man
The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 -- remained hidden for 33 years. Now, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W....
Can't Is Not an Option
My American Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A rising star in the Republican Party shares her inspirational memoir of family, hope, and the power of the American Dream.
Decades before their daughter surprised the nation by becoming governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley's parents had a dream. Ajit and Raj Randhawa were well-educated,...
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
William L. Riordan
“Nobody thinks of drawin’ the distinction between honest graft and dishonest graft.”
This classic work offers the unblushing, unvarnished wit and wisdom of one of the most fascinating figures...
by Geoffrey Perret
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2000
This new, in-depth life of Eisenhower offers fresh perspectives, not only on World War II and the Korean War but also on the Cold War, the civil rights movement, McCarthyism, the U-2 crisis and Vietnam.
Geoffrey Perret's Eisenhower gives us, for the first time, the whole man. It brings...
by Saint John Hunt, Eric Hamburg
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
A father’s last confession to his son about the CIA, Watergate, and the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy, this is the remarkable true story of St. John Hunt and his father E. Howard Hunt, the infamous Watergate burglar and CIA spymaster. In Howard Hunt's near-death confession to his...
The Kennedy Legacy
Jack, Bobby and Ted and a Family Dream Fulfilled
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy's individual stories can be seen as essentially one, each successive brother striving to fulfill the interrupted promise of the brother before. The closing of Ted Kennedy's chapter in America's political and cultural life means that, for the first time perhaps, the real...
Ulysses S. Grant
The American Presidents Series: The 18th President, 1869-1877
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as well
As a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely described in glowing terms-the man who turned the tide of the Civil War, who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and who had the stomach...
If Kennedy Lived
The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy: An Alternate History
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
What if Kennedy were not killed that fateful day? What would the 1964 campaign have looked like? Would changes have been made to the ticket? How would Kennedy, in his second term, have approached Vietnam, civil rights, the Cold War? With Hoover as an enemy, would his indiscreet private life finally...
In an Uncertain World
Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2003
Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico. This was not...
Reagan's War
The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
Reagan’s War is the story of Ronald Reagan’s personal and political journey as an anti-communist, from his early days as an actor to his years in the White House. Challenging popular misconceptions of Reagan as an empty suit who played only a passive role in the demise of the Soviet Union, Peter...