Roger: 3830 books
The Place to Be
Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Roger Mudd joined CBS in 1961, and as the congressional correspondent, became a star covering the historic Senate filibuster debate over the 1964 Civil Right Act. Mudd was one of half a dozen major figures in the stable of CBS News broadcasters at time when the network's standing as a provider of...
Dog Company
A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The Army does not want you to read this book. It does not want to advertise its detention system that coddles enemy fighters while putting American soldiers at risk. It does not want to reveal the new lawyered-up Pentagon war ethic that prosecutes U.S. soldiers and Marines while setting free spies...
1453
The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmet II, sultan...
by Roger L. Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
This one-volume narrative history of American Indians in the United States traces the experiences of indigenous peoples from early colonial times to the present day, demonstrating how Indian existence has varied and changed throughout our nation’s history. Although popular opinion and standard histories...
by Roger Lundin
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Garnering awards from Choice, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, and the Conference on Christianity and Literature when first published in 1998, Roger Lundin's Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief has been widely recognized as one of the finest biographies of the great American poet Emily Dickinson....
by Roger Levine
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Thirteen-year-old Jacob Zuckerman accompanies his grandfather, Abraham, to Dealey Plaza, Dallas, on the morning of November 22nd, 1963, to see President Kennedy’s motorcade. While the elder Zuckerman is absorbed in filming his now historic clip, Jake turns to his right and sees a man with a rifle, standing behind the picket fence atop the grassy knoll. Conspiracy? Absolutely.
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by Lt.-Colonel Roger P. Fox
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes 78 photos and 16 maps / charts
This book explores the unique problem of defending air bases during the Vietnam War. It centers on the primary efforts of the United States Air Force and allied air units to defend 10 key air bases within the Republic of Vietnam. Bien Hoa, on 1 November 1964,...
Capturing the Light
The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
An intimate look at the journeys of two men—a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist—as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photography
During the 1830s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific enquiry fostered by the industrial revolution,...
by Roger Kean
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
It is often forgotten that the period of Byzantine power is one of the major epochs in world history. The Empire was for eleven centuries the center of Christendom, mistress of the Mediterranean, and the symbol for all the rest of the world of splendor, wealth, and cultural ascendancy. Its period...
The First Great Political Realist
Kautilya and His Arthashastra
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2002
The First Great Political Realist is a succinct and penetrating analysis of one of the ancient world's foremost political realists, Kautilya. Kautilya's treatise Arthashastra stands as one of the great political books of the ancient world, its ideas on the science of politics strikingly similar to...
Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause
Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system, particularly with the Louisiana Purchase, squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now...
Cotton and Conquest
How the Plantation System Acquired Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the Civil War. In arguing that the U.S. acquisition of Texas originated with planters’ need for new lands to devote to cotton cultivation, celebrated...
Wolfpack Warriors
The Story of World War II’s Most Successful Fighter Outfit
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
In the later years of the Second World War Germany was subjected to a tremendous onslaught by the bomber commands of both the RAF and USAAF, as well as being assaulted by land. For these twin strategies to succeed the Allies had to obtain and hold air supremacy over Western Europe. That this was achieved...
by H. Roger Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
One of the most intriguing yet neglected pieces of American transportation history, electric interurban railroads were designed to assist shoppers, salesmen, farmers, commuters, and pleasure-seekers alike with short distance travel. At a time when most roads were unpaved and horse and buggy travel...