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In the Garden of Beastsby Erik Larson
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 12.99“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”— New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome... more...
Trumanby David McCullough
Simon & Schuster 2003; US$ 14.99The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man -- a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined -- but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman's story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop... more...
Freedom from Fearby David M. Kennedy
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 18.95Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This text tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. more...
George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policyby David Mayers
Oxford University Press 1990; US$ 26.00This political biography examines Kennan's thoughts in the context of his many years of government service and his political counsel in the field of foreign policy. more...
Twentieth-Century Americaby Thomas C. Reeves
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 15.00Intended for use as a main text for undergraduate courses or as a supplemental text in surveys, this work offers a succinct, comprehensive and objective examination of recent American history, avoiding unnecessary detail and trivia. Recommended further reading is provided for each era. more...
The Rise of Theodore Rooseveltby Edmund Morris
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 9.99Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Youngest of all our chief executives, he rallied a stricken nation with his superhuman energy, charm, and political skills. He proceeded to combat the problems of race and labor relations and trust control while making the Panama Canal possible and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. But his most historic achievement remains his creation of a national conservation policy, and his monument millions of acres of protected parks and forest. Theodore Rex ends... more...
Jacqueline Kennedyby Caroline Kennedy
Hyperion 2011; US$ 29.99Coming in January 2012, Hyperion will launch a one-of-its kind product which will allow readers to experience history in a completely new way. While reading Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.’s interviews of Jacqueline Kennedy, readers will be able to go back in time fifty years, and feel like they are part of a conversation between two old friends. The eBook Includes: PHOTOS 85 photographs of the Kennedy family are included throughout the narrative TEXT Complete transcripts of Jacqueline’s interviews allow readers a window into an important time in American history Accompanying annotations from leading presidential historian Michael Beschloss inform readers on political details of the era Clicking the annotation numeral... more...
We Were Oneby Patrick O'Donnell
Da Capo Press 2007; US$ 15.95A Band-of-Brothers -like, first-hand account of the fierce battle for Fallujah and the Marines who fought there--a story of brotherhood and sacrifice in a platoon of heroes more...
The Seventiesby Bruce J. Schulman
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 17.99Most of us think of the 1970s as an "in-between" decade, the uninspiring years that happened to fall between the excitement of the 1960s and the Reagan Revolution. A kitschy period summed up as the "Me Decade," it was the time of Watergate and the end of Vietnam, of malaise and gas lines, but of nothing revolutionary, nothing with long-lasting significance. In the first full history of the period, Bruce Schulman, a rising young cultural and political historian, sweeps away misconception after misconception about the 1970s. In a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant reexamination of the decade's politics, culture, and social and religious upheaval, he argues that the Seventies were one of the most important of the postwar twentieth-century... more...
Edith and Woodrowby Phyllis Lee Levin
Simon & Schuster 2002; US$ 24.99Elegantly written, tirelessly researched, full of shocking revelations, Edith and Woodrow offers the definitive examination of the controversial role Woodrow Wilson's second wife played in running the country. "The story of Wilson's second marriage, and of the large events on which its shadow was cast, is darker and more devious, and more astonishing, than previously recorded." -- from the Preface Constructing a thrilling, tightly contained narrative around a trove of previously undisclosed documents, medical diagnoses, White House memoranda, and internal documents, acclaimed journalist and historian Phyllis Lee Levin sheds new light on the central role of Edith Bolling Galt in Woodrow Wilson's administration. Shortly after Ellen... more...