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King Richard: An American Tragedy By Dobbs, Michael 2021-05 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780385350099 Check Our Catalog
Rich and kaleidoscopic... Dobbs has carved out something intimate and extraordinary, skillfully chiseling out the details to bring the story to lurid life. --Jennifer Szalai, New York Times From the best-selling author of One Minute to Midnight: a riveting account of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate …More |
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Valcour: The 1776 Campaign That Saved the Cause of Liberty By Kelly, Jack 2021-04 - St. Martin's Press 9781250247117 Check Our Catalog
The wild and suspenseful story of one of the most crucial and least known campaigns of the Revolutionary War when America's scrappy navy took on the full might of Britain's sea power. Vividly written... In novelistic prose, Kelly conveys the starkness of close-quarter naval warfare, where retreat was impossible... Ironically without the tarnished hero of Valcour, the US might not …More |
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Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders By Rasmussen, Dennis C. 2021-03 - Princeton University Press 9780691210230 Check Our Catalog
The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had created Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less …More |
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 By Kendi, Ibram X. Editor Blain, Keisha N. 2021-02 - One World 9780593134047 Check Our Catalog
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present--edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire. "A vital addition to the] curriculum on race in America . . . a gateway to …More |
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American Kompromat: How the KGB Pursued Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery By Unger, Craig 2021-01 - Dutton Books 9780593182536 Check Our Catalog
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Kompromat n.--Russian for compromising information This is a story about the dirty secrets of the most powerful people in the world--including Donald Trump. It is based on exclusive interviews with dozens of high-level sources--intelligence officers in …More |
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Black Firsts: 4,500 Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events By Smith, Jessie Carney 2021-01 - Visible Ink Press 9781578596881 Check Our Catalog
Significant accomplishments involving people, places, and events in Black history are chronicled in this study. It lists more than 3,000 firsts spanning over 20 centuries, in every area of human endeavor. …More |
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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution By Oakes, James 2021-01 - W. W. Norton & Company 9781324005858 Check Our Catalog
The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes's brilliant history of Lincoln's antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of antislavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the …More |
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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause By Seidule, Ty 2021-01 - St. Martin's Press 9781250239266 Check Our Catalog
Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency. --Ron Chernow In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy--and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have …More |