Americas category: 34066 books
The Ohio Gang
The World of Warren G. Harding
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
When Warren G. Harding was elected president in 1920, he brought to Washington some of his political chums from Ohio. They played poker; they sold illegal liquor permits, pardons and paroles. They sold fixes in the Justice Department and transported contraband across state lines. They sold naval oil...
John Adams
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has appeared on many TV and film documentaries on this pivotal period of our history. In John Adams: A Life, Ferling offers a compelling...
by David Herbert Donald
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
A Pulitzer Prize winner's “magisterial” biography of the Civil War–era Massachusetts senator, a Radical Republican who fought for slavery’s abolition (The New York Times).
In his follow-up to Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, acclaimed historian David Herbert Donald examines...
Alice
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
An entertaining and eye-opening biography of America's most memorable first daughter
From the moment Teddy Roosevelt's outrageous and charming teenage daughter strode into the White House—carrying a snake and dangling a cigarette—the outspoken Alice began to put her imprint on the whole...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Choosing the most important moments in the long history of the American presidency is difficult. But here, New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming vividly recreates many of those hours of crisis - from George Washington's fight for peace and the night Abraham Lincoln was almost shot to...
by William Marvel
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
An account of how America’s greatest crisis began, by “the Civil War’s master historical detective” (Stephen W. Sears, author of Chancellorsville).
This groundbreaking book investigates the mystery of how the Civil War began, reconsidering the big question: Was it inevitable?
The...
The Gettysburg Gospel
The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2006
The words Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg comprise perhaps the most famous speech in history. It has been quoted by popes, presidents, prime ministers, and revolutionaries around the world. From "Four score and seven years ago..."...
by USA TODAY, National Geographic
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Fifty years after the assassination of a president who inspired a generation, USA TODAY explores the life, death and legacy of John F. Kennedy. Read about the lives he touched and the promises he kept, and go behind the scenes of the National Geographic Channel film "Killing Kennedy," based on the best-selling book.
An Imperfect God
George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
An Imperfect God is a major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery
When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject...
Theodore Roosevelt
The American Presidents Series: The 26th President, 1901-1909
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th century
The American century opened with the election of that quintessentially American adventurer, Theodore Roosevelt. Louis Auchincloss's warm and knowing biography introduces us to the man behind the many myths of Theodore Roosevelt....
The Inheritance
Poisoned Fruit of JFK's Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Christopher Fulton's journey began with the death of Evelyn Lincoln, late secretary to President John F. Kennedy. Through Lincoln, crucial evidence ended up in Christopher's hands—evidence that was going to be used to facilitate a new future for America. But the U.S. government's position was clear:...
George Washington
The American Presidents Series: The 1st President, 1789-1797
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A premier leadership scholar and an eighteenth-century expert define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president
Revolutionary hero, founding president, and first citizen of the young republic, George Washington was the most illustrious public man of his time, a man...
by Joseph J. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
A colorful, enlightening account of how Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and the road to July 4: a selection from Joseph J. Ellis’s American Sphinx,winner of the National Book Award.* *
How did the newest and youngest member of Virginia’s delegation to the...
Lincoln's Gamble
The Tumultuous Six Months that Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
“A masterful psychological portrait” (George Stephanopoulos) of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War.
On July 12, 1862, Abraham Lincoln spoke for the first time of his intention...