Abrams: 1969 books
A Few Bloody Noses
The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2002
The ensuing uprising led to the creation of the United States, the most powerful country in the modern world. Robert Harvey, whose most recent book Liberators was brilliantly reviewed on both sides of the ocean, challenges conventional views of the American Revolution in almost every aspect-why it...
The Cooler King
The True Story of William Ash, the Greatest Escaper of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
When American fighter pilot William Ash’s plane was shot down over France in 1942, he was captured by German forces and placed in a Nazi prison camp. Ash, bolstered by the grit and ingenuity he developed during his upbringing in Texas during the Great Depression, would spend the rest of the war...
America's Longest Siege
Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
In America’s Longest Siege, historian Joseph Kelly captures the toxic mix of nationalism, paternalism, and wealth that made Charleston the center of the nationwide debate over slavery and the tragic act of secession that doomed both the city and the South. Thoroughly researched and compulsively...
The Roman Guide to Slave Management
A Treatise by Nobleman Marcus Sidonius Falx
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Having spent most of his life managing his servants—many of them prisoners from Rome’s military conquests—he decided to write a kind of owner’s manual for his friends and countrymen. The result, The Roman Guide to Slave Management, is a sly, subversive guide to the realities of servitude in...
Band of Angels
The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
According to most recorded history, women in the ancient world lived invisibly. Piecing together their story from the few contemproary accounts that have survived required painstaking detective work by Cooper, but it renders the past and the present in a new light. Band of Angels tells the remarkable...
Scotland: An Autobiography
2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw It Happen
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
A vivid, wide-ranging, and engrossing account of Scotland's history, composed of timeless stories by those who experienced it first-hand. Contributors range from Tacitus, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livingstone, and Billy Connolly. These include not only historic...
We Is Got Him
The Kidnapping that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
This “relentlessly suspenseful” story of America’s first known kidnapping in nineteenth century Philadelphia is “elegantly told, superbly accomplished” (The Philadelphia Enquirer).
In 1874, a little boy named Charley Ross was snatched from his family’s front yard in Philadelphia....
Derek Jeter
From the Pages of The New York Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Derek Jeter is a sports hero in the tradition of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle. Admired for his leadership, performance under pressure, and work ethic, Jeter is the face of the New York Yankees. He is also a quintessentially modern star, appealing to baseball's diverse audience, savvy about dealing...
by Freya Stark
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 1990
This is the story of back-country Turkey, an area that even in the 20th century remains stubbornly tied to antiquity. The author traveled through it by truck and horseback, often alone. She reached places little visited and never written about. The country people welcomed her with generosity unrelated...
O. Winston Link
Life Along the Line
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The renowned photographer’s stirring tribute to the last steam locomotive railway and the end of an American way of life.
O. Winston Link photographed the Norfolk and Western, the last major steam railroad in the United States, when it was converting its operations from steam to diesel in the...
Brooklyn Street Style
The No-Rules Guide to Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Brooklyn style is eclectic, creative, and distinct from neighborhood to neighborhood. It’s not about chasing labels. It is stylish on its own terms, and it’s about dressing for real life. Brooklyn Street Style: The No-Rules Guide to Fashion explores what has made the borough a global fashion mecca...
American Runway
75 Years of Fashion and the Front Row
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
New York Fashion Week has served many purposes throughout its long history, but it has always remained at the center of the American fashion world. During World War II, Fashion Week challenged the dominance of French couture; in the 1970s and 1980s, it was a showcase for American sportswear stars...
by Ivan Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Patti Hansen: A Portrait gives supermodel Patti Hansen’s short but incredibly influential career serious critical attention for the first time, following her transformation from a teenage model on the cover of Glamour to her reign as a dominating force in the pages of Vogue and on 12 covers. This...
The Pursuit of Style
Advice and Musings from America's Top Fashion Designers
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Style is an all-new, original collection of clever, charming, and often hilarious musings from American fashion’s biggest designers. The book culls the best pieces of advice and insight from a survey conducted by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)...