Richard: 17762 books
by Richard Sakwa
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Through sources and documents, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union by Richard Sakwa places the Soviet experience in historical and comparative context. The author introduces each source in this volume fully and provides commentary and analysis.
Using eye-witness accounts, official documents and...
Martin Luther King
Traum und Tat. Ein Lebensbild
Language: German
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Martin Luther King (1929-1968) ist das Symbol für den Kampf gegen Ungerechtigkeit und Diskriminierung. Richard Deats, der King persönlich kannte, zeichnet seinen Lebensweg nach und zeigt, woraus dieser "Prophet der Gewaltlosigkeit" seine Vision und seine Tatkraft schöpfte. Deats Lebensbild lässt...
Ethics, Literature, and Theory
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics.
Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of...
No Quarter
The Battle of the Crater, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
In this richly researched and dramatic work of military history, eminent historian Richard Slotkin recounts one of the Civil War’s most pivotal events: the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864. At first glance, the Union’s plan seemed brilliant: A regiment of miners would burrow beneath a Confederate...
by Richard Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.
In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons,...
The Coming Revolution
Signs from America's Past That Signal Our Nation's Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
People need a creed and a cause, and today millions of patriotic Americans are finding their voices.
They say the best indicator of the future is history. How things have been can be a powerful signal of how they will be. But what will be our role in shaping the future for this country?
In...
A Look Over My Shoulder
A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2003
A Look over My Shoulder begins with President Nixon’s attempt to embroil the Central Intelligence Agency, of which Richard Helms was then the director, in the Watergate cover-up. Helms then recalls his education in Switzerland and Germany and at Williams College; his early career as a foreign correspondent...
The Emperor's New Clothes
Exposing the Truth from Watergate to 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Richard Ben-Veniste hates being lied to. He especially hates it when the American people are lied to. Widely respected as a trial lawyer, Ben-Veniste delivers a fascinating insider's tale in his memoir of a career spent fighting hypocrisy and seeking accountability among the highest ranks of government.
A...
The Party
The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
“Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard McGregor’s illuminating and richly-textured look at the people in charge of China’s political machinery.... Invaluable.”...
by Richard Lederer, Caroline McCullagh
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Just How Much Do You Know About Our Great Nation?
Recent surveys reveal that more Americans can name at least two members of the Simpsons’ cartoon family than can name the first four American presidents in order. Richard Lederer and Caroline McCullagh have written the American Trivia Quiz...
Rostenkowski
The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2000
For thirteen years, during a time of Democratic congressional dominance in Washington, Dan Rostenkowski became one of the most influential American legislators of the twentieth century. As chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, the representative from Illinois influenced the nation's...
by Richard Hofstadter
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces...
by Richard Wright
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
The compelling continuation of Richard Wright's great autobiographical work, Black Boy
Anyone who has read Richard Wright's Black Boy knows it to be one of the great American autobiographies. Covering Wright's early life in the South, the book concludes with his departure in 1934 for a new...
Riding the Outlaw Trail
An Eye Classic
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Two men retrace the notorious pair's footsteps, covering thousands of miles of hazardous country on horseback and discovering how little has changed from the saddle in the last 100 years
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the last of the legendary outlaws, were captured on daguerreotype,...