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Revolutionaries
A New History of the Invention of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
“[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers” by a Pulitzer Prize winner (The New Yorker).
In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted to family and the private pursuit of...
To the Gates of Richmond
The Peninsula Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This account of McClellan’s 1862 campaign is “a wonderful book” (Ken Burns) and “military history at its best” (The New York Times Book Review).
From “the finest and most provocative Civil War historian writing today,” To the Gates of Richmond is the story of the one of the conflict’s...
The Big Roads
The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Discover the twists and turns of one of America’s great infrastructure projects with this “engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system” (Los Angeles Times).
It’s become a part of the landscape that we take for granted, the site of rumbling eighteen-wheelers and...
by Ira Stoll
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In an era of partisanship and shifting political labels, a fascinating look at just how “liberal” President John F. Kennedy actually was—or wasn’t.
“America, meet the real John F. Kennedy.” —Washington Times
John F. Kennedy is lionized by liberals. He inspired Lyndon Johnson...
Time Reborn
From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
A radical new view of the nature of time and the cosmos—“at once entertaining, thought-provoking, fabulously ambitious and fabulously speculative” (The New York Times Book Review).
What is time?
This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science...
Night in Shanghai
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
This novel of an American musician caught up in the dangers of 1930s China is “historical fiction at its best” (Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered).
In 1936, classical pianist Thomas Greene is recruited to Shanghai to lead a jazz orchestra of fellow African American expats. After...
A Comrade Lost and Found
A Beijing Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
A “suspenseful, elegantly written” account of the author’s return to China after thirty years to search for the woman she betrayed to the authorities (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In the early 1970s, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Jan Wong traveled from Canada to Beijing...
by James S. Hirsch
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
How two Vietnam POWs, one white and one black, formed an unexpected friendship that saved them both: “A moving story.” —John McCain
Fred Cherry was one of the few black pilots taken prisoner by the Vietnamese, tortured and intimidated by captors who tried and failed to get him to sign...
The First Total War
Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
“A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel” (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of modern European history, UCLA).
The twentieth century is usually seen as “the century of total war.” But as the historian...
Why We Lost
A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A commander’s “compelling” behind-the-scenes view of the United States at war after 9/11, from high-level strategy to combat on the ground (The Wall Street Journal).
Over his thirty-five year career, Daniel P. Bolger rose through the ranks of the army infantry to become a three-star general,...
Aristotle's Children
How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2004
A true account of a turning point in medieval history that shaped the modern world, from “a superb storyteller” and the author of When Jesus Became God (Los Angeles Times).
Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but...
God's Harvard
A Christian College on a Mission to Save America
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Behind the scenes at Patrick Henry College: “A deft and honest narrative of evangelical education . . . historical background, close observation and skeptical wit” (Publishers Weekly).
One of the Christian Science Monitor’s annual “Books We Liked Best”
Take a walk down the...
Winter Brothers
A Season at the Edge of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1982
A blend of modern-day travel memoir and nineteenth-century history, “infused with the fresh air and spirit of the Northwest” (The New York Times Book Review).
The author of the acclaimed This House of Sky and Mountain Time provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through...
PrairyErth
A Deep Map
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This New York Times bestseller by the author of Blue Highways is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review).
William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and...