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From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have…
punctuated our history, we see our founding fathers and other American heroes in the course of their all-too-human events. Ineffectual presidents, lazy generals, traitors; treacherous fathers, nagging mothers, ungrateful children, embarrassing siblings; and stories about insanity, death, and disturbing postmortems are all here, as are disagreeable marriages, vile habits, and, of course, sex: good sex, bad sex, and good-bad sex too. 2004.A house reunited: how America survived the Civil War (The modern scholar)
Par Jay Winik. 2003
Professor Winik examines the events leading to the end of the Civil War and ponders some of the unthinkable alternatives…
that might have prevented the formation of the country as we know it today. 2003.A history of the American people
Par Paul Johnson. 1998
A social narrative and interpretation of the history of the United States from colonial times to the Clinton era. Includes…
material gleaned from diaries, letters, and recorded conversations; character analyses of primary achievers of each era; as well as extensive and sometimes critical comments by the author, a British conservative. Bestseller. 1998. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.A good year to die: the story of the great Sioux War
Par Charles M Robinson. 1995
Narrative history of the Great Sioux War of 1876, focussing on the efforts of the United States Army, led by…
George Crook, Alfred Terry, George Armstrong Custer, and Ranald Mackenzie, to conquer the western Native American tribes led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Robinson uses accounts from diaries, manuscripts, and newspapers to document the battles, rivalries, and competing cultures. Violence. 1995.A girl stands at the door: the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools
Par Rachel Devlin. 2018
A generation of sociopaths: how the baby boomers betrayed America
Par Bruce Gibney. 2017
Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity.…
A former partner in a leading venture capital firm, Gibney examines the disastrous policies of the most powerful generation in modern history, showing how the Boomers ruthlessly enriched themselves at the expense of future generations. Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts--acting, in other words, as sociopaths--the Boomers turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. The Boomers have set a time bomb for the 2030s, when damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will become catastrophic and possibly irreversible--and when, not coincidentally, Boomers will be dying off. Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America. 2017.A crack in the edge of the world: America and the great California earthquake of 1906
Par Simon Winchester. 2005
Winchester brings his storytelling abilities, as well as his understanding of geology, to the extraordinary San Francisco Earthquake, exploring not…
only what happened in northern California in 1906 that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion, but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake. He also positions the quake's significance along the earth's geological timeline and shows the effect it had on the rest of 20th-century California and American history. 2005.1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a world on the brink
Par Taylor Downing. 2018
Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1983 nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear…
Armageddon. Downing draws on previously unpublished interviews and over a thousand pages of secret documents recently released by Washington to tell the story. 2018.30 days a black man: the forgotten story that exposed the Jim Crow south
Par Bill Steigerwald. 2017
In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust life was for the ten million African…
Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a black man in the Jim Crow South. 2017.30 lessons for living: tried and true advice from the wisest Americans (Your coach in a box)
Par Karl A Pillemer. 2011
Pillemer interviewed more than 1,000 Americans over the age of 65 about issues like children, marriage, money, and careers, finding…
time and again their answers pointed to the same set of essential lessons. Here, he delivers the personal stories and challenges overcome that led to their hard-won knowledge and sage advice. 2011.1776: America and Britain at war
Par David G McCullough. 2006
America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America.…
"1776" tells two stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them. 2006.The book of life: one man's search for the wisdom of age
Par Andrew Jackson. 2000
Jackson quit his job to travel the world with his wife, meet the oldest people alive and imbibe some of…
their knowledge. He describes nonagenarians and centenarians in Slovakia, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, America, Ecuador and Bolivia. In their meetings with the aged, they explore the changing world and the peaceful demeanour which has helped these survivors to live into their dotage. 2000.The incredible War of 1812: a military history
Par Donald E Graves, J. Mackay Hitsman. 1999
An account of the causes of the war of 1812 and of the campaigns and battles that raged on land…
and water, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Hitsman describes the life and role of the soldiers - both the regulars and the militia - and the difficulties of waging war in largely trackless territory, where rivers and lakes were the main means of transport. Some descriptions of violence. 1999.Tubman: Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad : her life in the United States and Canada
Par Rosemary Sadlier. 1997
A biography of Harriet Tubman, who helped slaves escape to freedom. It tells her story and describes what life was…
like in St. Catharines during the eight years she lived in Canada. The author also illustrates the importance of family history by tracing Harriet's descendants to the present day. Grades 5-8. 1997.Spirituality and ageing
Par Albert Jewell. 1999
This work presents the experience of ageing as an opportunity for spiritual reflection and affirmation of life. The contributors are…
religious and spiritual leaders and ethical thinkers from a range of backgrounds. They define "spirituality" not just as a religious concept but as an answer to the natural human need for purpose, values and relationships - a sense of wholeness in life.Woodrow Wilson: a biography
Par John Milton Cooper. 2009
Evaluates the parallel worlds of the twenty-eighth president's personal and political arenas, examining his World War I leadership, his failed…
efforts to bring the United States into the League of Nations, and his contributions toward the creation of the United Nations. 2009.War and the American presidency
Par Arthur M Schlesinger. 2004
The gravest decision in a democracy is the one to go to war. In a book that brings a command…
of history to the most urgent of contemporary questions, the author explores the war in Iraq, the presidency, and the future of democracy. Describing unilateralism as "the oldest doctrine in American history," he nevertheless warns of the dangers posed by the fatal turn in U.S. policy from deterrence and containment to preventive war. 2004.Inside the Alamo
Par Jim Murphy. 2003
An overview of the struggle between the Texan settlers and Mexico's General Santa Anna for control of Texas, with a…
detailed description of the 1836 siege of the Alamo. The author's inside book separates fact from fiction as often as possible. For junior and senior high readers. 2003.Things no longer there: a memoir of losing sight and finding vision
Par Susan Krieger. 2005
Krieger, a sociologist and writer who is also losing her vision to a rare eye disease, goes bird watching in…
New Mexico, learns to use a white cane, revisits an old love, and returns to the summer camp of her youth, while reflecting on the nature of blindness and sight. She explains that that while outer landscapes may change, the inner visions persist, giving meaning and jarring the senses with a very different picture from what appears before the eyes. Some descriptions of sex. 2005.