Eric: 6009 books
Counterstrike
The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Inside the Pentagon's secretive and revolutionary new strategy to fight terrorism--and its game-changing effects in the Middle East and at home
In the years following the 9/11 attacks, the United States waged a "war on terror" that sought to defeat Al Qaeda through brute force. But...
The Second Battle of Winchester
The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is underway. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia is pushing northward through the Shenandoah Valley toward Pennsylvania, and only one significant force stands in its way: Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy’s Union division of the Eighth Army Corps, in the vicinity...
An Age of Infidels
The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Historian Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflict at the center of early American political culture. He shows ordinary Americans—both faithful believers and Christianity's staunchest critics—struggling with questions about the meaning of tolerance and the limits of religious freedom. In doing...
by Eric Burns
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
**A fresh and sensitive examination of Eleanor Roosevelt—one of the most remarkable Americans in history—and the tortured father who would inspire and shape her future leadership and advocacy. **
Eleanor Roosevelt is viewed as one of the most pioneering women in American history. But she...
Hamden
Tales from the Sleeping Giant
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
Sail into New Haven Harbor and trek toward the beautiful form of the Sleeping Giant to discover Hamden, a picturesque gem nestled in the rolling hills of Connecticut. Witness the birth of the ?Industrial Revolution with the building of Eli Whitney's famous factory, wander past the buried cars in the...
On Empire
America, War, and Global Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
In there four incisive and keenly perceptive essays, one of out most celebrated and respected historians of modern Europe looks at the world situation and some of the major political problems confronting us at the start of the third millennium.
With his usual measured and brilliant historical...
Fractured Times
Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siècle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism...
American Inquisition
The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian...
If You Can Keep It
The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.
In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin...
by C. Eric Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A classic work on religion and the racial problems of modern america -now brought up to date.
Since the early days of the Republic, Americans' exuberant, unchastened idealism, their commitment to the notion of a perfect society in the New World, has clashed with the reality of ugly American...
Village Atheists
How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
A much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God. Yet, village atheists—as these godless freethinkers came to be known by the close...
by Eric Newby
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
With his trademark charm and sharp wit, Newby leaves no stone unturned in his quest for wonderfully detailed and quirky knowledge to share with his reader. Insightful, hilarious and sheer fun, this is an adventure not to be missed, by Britain's best-loved travel guide, and father of the genre. 'Why...
Heat Wave
A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-day...
by Lelio La Porta, Eric Hobsbawm, Joseph Buttigieg
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
“What the future fortunes of [Gramsci’s] writings will be, we cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure, and justifies the historical study of his international reception. The present collection of studies is an indispensable foundation for this.” —Eric Hobsbawm, from...