Jr Jr : 7350 books
A Rift in the Earth
Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Army Veteran Revisits the Culture War that Raged around the Selection of Maya Lin's Design for the Vietnam Memorial
A Rift in the Earth tells the remarkable story of the ferocious “art war” that raged between 1979 and 1984 over what kind of memorial...
Lighting Out for the Territory
How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the title character gloomily reckons that it’s time “to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest.” Tom Sawyer’s Aunt Sally is trying to “sivilize” him, and Huck Finn can’t stand it—he’s been there before.
It’s...
FDR Goes to War
How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
From the acclaimed author of New Deal or Raw Deal?, called “eye-opening” by the National Review, comes a fascinating exposé of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s destructive wartime legacy—and its adverse impact on America’s economic and foreign policies today.
Did World War II really end...
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Throughout time, leaders at the pinnacle of power - popes and kings, presidents and prime ministers, czars and generals - have subscribed to the belief that they can change the course of history, not by the force of arms, but through charm, skillful negotiation, honesty, deceit, and all the other...
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...
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...
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
A “brilliant” examination of the growth of presidential power from George Washington to George W. Bush, by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian (Newsweek).
Over the course of two centuries, the power of the president of the United States has grown exponentially. From George Washington to...
Journals
1952-2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
From his entrance into Democratic leadership circles in the 1950s through his years in the Kennedy administration and up until his last days, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., was always at the vital center of American politics. For more than half a century, the master historian recorded his experiences and...
The Conviction of Richard Nixon
The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1971, and ended when President Gerald Ford granted Richard M. Nixon a pardon on September 8, 1974, one month after Nixon resigned from office in disgrace. Effectively removed...
by Richard Carlson Jr.
Language: Swedish
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: Swedish
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Richard Carlson Jr. diagnostiserades med paranoid schizofreni när han var tjugo år gammal. Hans sjukdom först manifesterade när han var en ung ungdom. Modern psykiatri misslyckades starkt Richard för över ett decennium. Därefter förstod han, efter en incident som involverade polisen, att hans...
by Richard Carlson Jr.
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Richard Carlson Jr. foi diagnosticado com esquizofrenia paranoica quando tinha vinte e um anos de idade. Sua doença manifestou-se pela primeira vez quando ele era um adolescente precoce. A psiquiatria moderna fracassou muito em Richard por mais de uma década. Então, após um incidente envolvendo...
A People of Hope
Archbishop Timothy Dolan in Conversation with John L. Allen Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
One of the world's most respected religion journalists profiles New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan, one of the country's—and possibly the world’s—most important Catholic leaders through lengthy exclusive interviews.
Unique among the current leadership of the Catholic Church, Archbishop Dolan...
by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
His Roman-Catholic faith has been an enduring part of the life and personality of William Buckley, Jr. Now, for the first time since his ground breaking God and the Man at Yale he has written a book about faith--his own.
Nearer, My God, An Autobiography of Faith is William Buckley's superbly...
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
In 1517, Martin Luther, the Germany theologian, tacked his ninety-five theses to the door of the Wittenberg church, thereby setting off the theological revolution that gave birth to the Reformation. Luther confronted a papal establishment headed by Leo X, the pleasure-loving son of Lorenzo de Medici...