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For Cause and Comrades
Why Men Fought in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 1997
General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You...
Second Skin
Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne...
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity--passionate, risk-taking,...
Margaret Fuller
An American Romantic Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Filled with dramatic, ironic, and sometimes tragic turns, this superb biography captures the story of one of America's most extraordinary figures, producing at once the best life of Fuller ever written, and one of the great biographies in American history. In Volume II, Charles Capper illuminates...
New News Out of Africa
Uncovering Africa's Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
For twenty years an acclaimed correspondent on PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and the winner of two Emmys and two Peabody Awards (the latter two for her coverage of Africa), Charlayne Hunter-Gault was until recently the Johannesburg Bureau Chief for CNN. In New News Out of Africa, this eminent...
The Road to Monticello
The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of...
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
Ayn Rand and the American Right
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private...
by David L. Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
It is not uncommon to hear Christians argue that America was founded as a Christian nation. But how true is this claim? In this compact book, David L. Holmes offers a clear, concise and illuminating look at the spiritual beliefs of our founding fathers. He begins with an informative account of the...
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1986
The definitive life of Jefferson in one volume, this biography relates Jefferson's private life and thought to his prominent public position and reveals the rich complexity of his development. As Peterson explores the dominant themes guiding Jefferson's career--democracy, nationality, and enlightenment--and...
The First of Men
A Life of George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Written by John Ferling, one of America's leading historians of the Revolutionary era, The First of Men offers an illuminating portrait of George Washington's life, with emphasis on his military and political career. Here is a riveting account that captures Washington in all his complexity, recounting...
Reckoning with Reagan
America and Its President in the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 1994
At the height of Ronald Reagan's popularity in July 1986, Time magazine wrote glowingly of how he had "found America's sweet spot." Reagan seemed a "magician who carries a bright, ideal America like a holograph in his mind and projects its image in the air." Not since the rhapsody...
Avenging the People
Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Most Americans know Andrew Jackson as a frontier rebel against political and diplomatic norms, a "populist" champion of ordinary people against the elitist legacy of the Founding Fathers. Many date the onset of American democracy to his 1829 inauguration. Despite his reverence for the "sovereign...
John Adams
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has appeared on many TV and film documentaries on this pivotal period of our history. In John Adams: A Life, Ferling offers a compelling...
by William E. Gienapp
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2002
In Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America historian William Gienapp provides a remarkably concise up-to-date and vibrant biography of the most revered figure in United States history. While the heart of the book focuses on the Civil War Gienapp begins with a finely etched portrait of Lincoln's early...