Free Press: 1051 books
Civil War Command And Strategy
The Process Of Victory And Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In this comparative history of Union & Confederate command & strategy, Jones shows us how the Civil War was actually conducted. Looking at decision-making at the highest levels, Jones argues that President Lincoln & Davis & most of their senior generals brought to the context of the Civil War a broad...
by Joseph Glatthaar
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Explores the productive friendships of such contrasting personalities as Grant and Sherman and Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, bringing to life the struggle between McClellan and Lincoln and Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston.
General Lee's Army
From Victory to Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
"You would be surprised to see what men we have in the ranks," Virginia cavalryman Thomas Rowland informed his mother in May 1861, just after joining the Army of Northern Virginia. His army -- General Robert E. Lee's army -- was a surprise to almost everyone: With daring early victories and an invasion...
Lincoln's Code
The Laws of War in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Bancroft Prize Winner
ABA Silver Gavel Award Winner
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It...
by Gil Troy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
See How They Ran explores why candidates campaign as they do, why Americans complain about it, and what these evolving patterns and changing images tell us about American democracy itself.
On the eve of every election, many Americans become convinced that this presidential campaign is worse...
Wisenheimer
A Childhood Subject to Debate
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Have you ever met a child who talked like an adult? Who knew big words and how to use them? Was he a charmer or an insufferable smart aleck—or maybe both? Mark Oppenheimer was just such a boy, his talent for language a curse as much as a blessing. But when he got to junior high, Oppenheimer discovered...
by Rickie Solinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1995
Prior to Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of illegal abortions occurred in the United States every year. Rickie Solinger uses the story of Ruth Barnett, an abortionist in Portland, Oregon, between 1918 and 1968 to demonstrate that it was the law, not so-called back-alley practitioners, that most...
How to Break a Terrorist
The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Finding Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, had long been the U.S. military's top priority -- trumping even the search for Osama bin Laden. No brutality was spared in trying to squeeze intelligence from Zarqawi's suspected associates. But these "force on force" techniques yielded...
The Longest War
The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED since the shocking attacks on the World Trade Center, and after seven years of conflict, the last U.S. combat troops left Iraq—only to move into Afghanistan, where the ten-year-old fight continues: the war on terror rages with no clear end in sight. In The Longest War Peter...
American Chinatown
A People's History of Five Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
CHINATOWN, U.S.A.: a state of mind, a world within a world, a neighborhood that exists in more cities than you might imagine. Every day, Americans find "something different" in Chinatown's narrow lanes and overflowing markets, tasting exotic delicacies from a world apart or bartering for a trinket...
Tear Down This Myth
How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
In this provocative new book, award-winning political journalist Will Bunch unravels the story of how a right-wing cabal hijacked the mixed legacy of Ronald Reagan, a personally popular but hugely divisive 1980s president, and turned him into a bronze icon to revive their fading ideology. They succeeded...
Reagan
A Life In Letters
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2004
Ronald Reagan may have been the most prolific correspondent of any American president since Thomas Jefferson. The total number of letters written over his lifetime probably exceeds 10,000. Their breadth is equally astonishing -- with friends and family, with politicians, children, and other private...
Conquered into Liberty
Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Americans often think of the Civil War as the conflict that consolidated the United States, including its military values and practices. But there was another, earlier, and more protracted struggle between “North” and “South,” beginning in the 1600s and lasting for more than two centuries,...
Terrorists in Love
The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Imagine a world where a boy’s dreams dictate the behavior of warriors in battle; where a young couple’s only release from forbidden love is death; where religious extremism, blind hatred, and endemic corruption combine to form a lethal ideology that can hijack a man’s life forever. This is the...