Sides: 28 books
Americana
Dispatches from the New Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Harley-Davidson bikers . . . Grand Canyon river rats. . . Mormon archaeologists . . . Spelling bee prodigies . . .
For more than fifteen years, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of...
On Desperate Ground
The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
**"Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir — has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes and cinematic sweep."—Washington...
by John Sides & Lynn Vavreck
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
This is the first of a series of free ebook preview chapters--scheduled to be released between August and December 2012--from a groundbreaking book in progress about the 2012 U.S. presidential election. What are the odds that Barack Obama will be reelected in November, despite a weak economy?...
by John Sides & Lynn Vavreck
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
"Random, or Romney?" is the second of a series of free eBook preview chapters from John Sides and Lynn Vavreck's groundbreaking Fall 2013 book, The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election. These eBook chapters are scheduled to be released between August and December 2012. Picking...
Ghost Soldiers
The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2002
“The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)—an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March.
On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged...
by Hampton Sides
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Edgar Award Nominee
One of the Best Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco Chronicle
With a New Afterword
On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at...
Going Free
American POWs in WWII Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
From Hampton Sides’s Ghost Soldiers, a gripping narrative of World War II POWs on the brink of freedom.
The men of Cabanatuan had been held by the Japanese since the Bataan Death March, in increasingly dire circumstances. With the war turning in the Americans’ favor, the POWs worried that their...
Erotic City
Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Since the 1960s, San Francisco has been America's capital of sexual libertinism and a potent symbol in its culture wars. In this highly original book, Josh Sides explains how this happened, unearthing long-forgotten stories of the city's sexual revolutionaries, as well as the legions of longtime San...
In the Kingdom of Ice
The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age
In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress...
by Hampton Sides
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
A magnificent history of the American conquest of the West; "a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review).
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico....
by Ricky Sides
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
In the mid-nineties, my wife was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, which had metastasized to her lymph nodes. The essay “Coping with Breast Cancer” details what happened in the wake of that diagnosis. We decided to release this composition in the hopes of helping other couples confronted...
The Gamble
Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
"Game changer." We heard it so many times during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. But what actually made a difference in the contest—and what was just hype? In this groundbreaking book, John Sides and Lynn Vavreck tell the dramatic story of the election—with a big difference. Using...
Tragedy to Hope
A Guide for Support and Ministry After Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Tragedy to Hope is for grieving parents and for the friends, churches and professionals who help them.
What can you say, what can you do when a baby dies?
In Tragedy to Hope learn how to provide caring support and effective ministry to families who experience a miscarriage, stillbirth...
Identity Crisis
The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
A gripping in-depth look at the presidential election that stunned the world
Donald Trump's election victory resulted in one of the most unexpected presidencies in history. Identity Crisis provides the definitive account of the campaign that seemed to break all the political rules—but in...
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