Free Press: 1051 books
Woman of Valor
Clara Barton and the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1995
When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency operating in the heart of...
Between War and Peace
How America Ends Its Wars
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
An emperor bows abjectly before his conquerors on the deck of a battleship. As smoke yet rises from a bloody battlefield, a dejected general proffers his sword to his victorious opponent. Frock-coated ministers exchange red leather–bound treaty books in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. These are...
David and Solomon
In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
The exciting field of biblical archaeology has revolutionized our understanding of the Bible -- and no one has done more to popularise this vast store of knowledge than Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, who revealed what we now know about when and why the Bible was first written in The Bible...
Big Girls Don't Cry
The Election that Changed Everything for American Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Journalist and Salon writer Rebecca Traister investigates the 2008 presidential election and its impact on American politics, women and cultural feminism. Examining the role of women in the campaign, from Clinton and Palin to Tina Fey and young voters, Traister confronts the tough questions of what...
In the Line of Fire
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
According to Time magazine, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf holds "the world's most dangerous job." He has twice come within inches of assassination. His forces have caught more than 670 members of al Qaeda in the mountains and cities, yet many others remain at large and active, including Osama...
Reagan's Path to Victory
The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
In the last years of Ronald Reagan's life, his voluminous writings on politics, policy, and people finally emerged and offered a Rosetta stone by which to understand him. From 1975 to 1979, in particular, he delivered more than 1,000 radio addresses, of which he wrote at least 680 himself. When drafts...
Presidential Leadership
Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2004
What makes a president great? Two of America's most prominent institutions, The Wall Street Journal and the Federalist Society, with the help of a wide array of eminent scholars, journalists, and political leaders, tackle this question in Presidential Leadership, the definitive ranking of our nation's...
A Fierce Discontent
The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in A
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt, whose energy glinted through his pince-nez; Carry Nation, who smashed saloons with her axe and helped stop an entire nation from drinking;...
Forgotten Heroes
Inspiring American Portraits From Our Leading Hist
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1999
The pages of the past are full of characters who remind us that history depends upon the great deeds of men and women, whether famous or humble. Where would America be without George Washington, or Daniel Boone, or Sojourner Truth, or Babe Ruth? Where would we be without so many characters who are...
by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
A refreshing approach to the study of major Western philosophers. Introductory essays by noted scholars enliven each volume with insights into the human side of the great thinkers, and provide authoritative discussions of the historical background, evolution, and importance of their ideas. Highly recommended as stimulating classroom texts.
Values Matter Most
How Republicans, or Democrats, or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Published in tandem with his upcoming PBS special of the same name, the eminent political commentator argues that the parties' stands on social issues such as crime, welfare, and morality will decide future elections. 25,000 first printing.
The Invisible People
How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pan
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
The Invisible People is a revealing and at times shocking look inside the United States's response to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known -- the global AIDS crisis. A true story of politics, bureaucracy, disease, internecine warfare, and negligence, it illustrates that while...
Embattled Courage
The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Linderman traces each soldier's path from the exhilaration of enlistment to the disillusionment of battle to postwar alienation. He provides a rare glimpse of the personal battle that raged within soldiers then and now.
Denying the Holocaust
The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy. Sixty years ago, such notions were the province...