Americas category: 34066 books
Nixon's White House Wars
The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan—speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon—tells the untold story of Nixon’s embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats.
In his inaugural address, Nixon...
by Jim Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
A minute-by-minute narrative account of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, The Day Kennedy Was Shot captures the action, mystery, and drama that unfolded on November 22, 1963.
Author Jim Bishop’s trademark hour-by-hour suspenseful storytelling drives this account of an unforgettable...
by Alexander Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Discover America's most acerbic founding father in his own words!
This handsome little volume offers a collection of insights, witticisms, declarations, and sentiments penned by Alexander Hamilton throughout his life.
From arguments in favor of the U. S. Constitution, to wartime correspondence...
Cult City
Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
In recounting the fascinating, intersecting stories of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, Cult City tells the story of a great city gone horribly wrong.
November 1978. Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a...
Lincoln Unbound
How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream---And How We Can Do It Again
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Lincoln Unbound is a thoughtful mix of history and politics from Rich Lowry, the New York Times bestselling author and editor of National Review, which traces Abraham Lincoln’s ambitious climb from provincial upstart to political powerhouse.
Revered across the political spectrum, President...
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**If you’re both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a “new generation of activists and ordinary people who search for hope in the darkness” (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor).
Is change possible? Where will it come from? Can we actually make a difference? How...
Young Che
Memories of Che Guevara by His Father
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
“I had prepared a life plan that included ten years of wandering, later years studying medicine. . . . All that's in the past, the only thing that's clear is that the ten years of wandering might grow longer . . . but it will now be of an entirely different type from the one I dreamed of, and when...
The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson
The White House Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
From Lyndon Johnson’s closest domestic adviser during the White House years comes a book in which “Johnson leaps out of the pages in all his raw and earthy glory” (The New York Times Book Review) that’s been called “a joy to read” (Stephen Ambrose, The Washington Post Book World).
Califano...
All the Powers of Earth
The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
In All the Powers of Earth, Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed through the great biographer's extraordinary research and literary style.
After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue...
A Complicated Man
The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Though Bill Clinton has been out of office since 2001, public fascination with him continues unabated. Many books about Clinton have been published in recent years, but shockingly, no single-volume biography covers the full scope of Clinton’s life from the cradle to the present day, not even Clinton’s...
Reagan
An American Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational.
More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents,...
A Mother's Cry
A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brazil’s dictatorship arrested, tortured, and interrogated many people it suspected of subversion; hundreds of those arrested were killed in prison. In May 1970, Marcos P. S. Arruda, a young political activist, was seized in São Paulo, imprisoned, and tortured....
Slavemaster President
The Double Career of James Polk
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
James Polk was President of the United States from 1845 to 1849, a time when slavery began to dominate American politics. Polk's presidency coincided with the eruption of the territorial slavery issue, which within a few years would lead to the catastrophe of the Civil War. Polk himself owned substantial...
Star Spangled Scandal
Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
"There may be no two more addicting topics to people right now than politics and true crime. Star Spangled Scandal delves into both of these—with a heavy dose of sex added in."
— NPR book review
“… and sir I do assure you he has as much the use of your wife as you have.”
—...