Revolutionary category: 2684 books
by Sid Moody
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This is the 12th episode of 1776: The World Turned Upside Down, a 12-episode serial by Serial Box in partnership with The Associated Press.
They were farmers and accountants, high-school dropouts and part-time soldiers, successful merchants and failed corset makers. Yet together they stood...
Tea Sets and Tyranny
The Politics of Politeness in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Even as eighteenth-century thinkers from John Locke to Thomas Jefferson struggled to find effective means to restrain power, contemporary discussions of society gave increasing attention to ideals of refinement, moderation, and polished self-presentation. These two sets of ideas have long seemed separate,...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
*Includes letters written by John, Abigail, and Thomas Jefferson.*Includes pictures of the Adamses and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. "A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be...
The House of Government
A Saga of the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction
The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition...
White Nights
The Story of a Prisoner in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
WHITE NIGHTS, Menachem Begin’s memoir of his arrest, interrogation and imprisonment by the Soviet authorities after the outbreak of World War II, ranks with House of the Dead and Gulag Archipelago as a masterpiece of prison literature.
As the head of Betar, the Zionist youth movement founded...
Tiny Revolutions in Russia
Twentieth Century Soviet and Russian History in Anecdotes and Jokes
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2005
This book presents a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of the 20th century. Anecdotes and jokes were a hidden form of discursive communication in the Soviet era, lampooning official practices and acting as a confidential form of self-affirmation. They were not necessarily...
The Republicans
A History of the Grand Old Party
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Lewis L. Gould's 2003 history of the Republican Party was a fast-paced account of Republican fortunes. The Republicans won praise for its even-handed, incisive analysis of Republican history, drawing on Gould's deep knowledge of the evolution of national political history and acute feel for the interplay...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
At Yorktown, Virginia, after six and a half years of fighting, General George Washington and his troops and their French allies brought the American Revolution to a victorious end. Here, from New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming is the vivid account of the stunning reversal of British fortunes that led to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and the birth of the American nation.
Affairs of State
The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal, 1789–1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
In recent years, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, and countless other politicians have made headlines for their sexual scandals. But such stories are not new. Indeed, there is a long history of misbehavior in politics, including in the nation’s highest...
Hamas
From Resistance to Government
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group’s new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict?
Italian journalist...
by Davidson Butler
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Davidson Butler, are the extraordinary lives of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Franklin - inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, diplomat, author, and Founding Father - and Jefferson - author of the Declaration of Independence, father of the University...
The Beaver Men
Spearheads of Empire, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Ham’s Fork, in what is now Wyoming, in 1834. The Beaver Men is the third in Mari Sandoz’s trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation to an animal species.
John Adams
The American Presidents Series: The 2nd President, 1797-1801
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2003
A revealing look at the true beginning of American politics
Until recently rescued by David McCullough, John Adams has always been overshadowed by Washington and Jefferson. Volatile, impulsive, irritable, and self-pitying, Adams seemed temperamentally unsuited for the presidency. Yet in many...
Patrick Henry
First Among Patriots
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Most Americans know Patrick Henry as a fiery speaker whose pronouncement Give me liberty or give me death!” rallied American defiance to the British Crown. But Henry's skills as an orator-sharpened in the small towns and courtrooms of colonial Virginia-are only one part of his vast, but largely...