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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History

Molly Caldwell Crosby

From Publishers Weekly In a summer of panic and death in 1878, more than half the population of Memphis, Tenn., fled...

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

Eric Foner

JD Jackson is a theater professor, aspiring stage director, and award-winning audiobook narrator. A classically trained...

American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation

Seth David Radwell

PRAISE for AMERICAN SCHISM "Almost every book I read about America these days makes me more pessimistic about the...

The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order (Council on Foreign Relations Books (Princeton University Press))

Benn Steil

Winner of the 2013 Spear's Book Award in Financial History""Co-Winner of the 2014 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom...

The Truth of the War Conspiracy of 1861

Huger William Johnstone

About the Author Huger William Johnstone was born on June 12, 1846, one of three children of William and Mary Blanch...

A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens

Lawrence Edward Babits

An important work that draws upon untapped evidence and employs new methods for interpreting traditional sources. . . ....

The Responsible Company

Yvon Chouinard

Yvon Chouinard is a noted alpinist and the founder and co-owner of Patagonia, Inc. Hes also the co-founder, with Craig...

City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

Donald L. Miller

John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times : "With City of the Century, Miller has written what will be judged as the great Chicago...

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery

William Craft

About the Author Richard J. M. Blackett is the Andrew Jackson Professor ofHistory at Vanderbilt University and the...

Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis

William C. Davis

Exhaustive research by a master practitioner sweeps aside layers of legendry to reveal three giants of the Alamo in...

Gangland: New Zealand's Underworld of Organised Crime

Jared Savage

About the Author Jared Savage is an investigative reporter for the New Zealand Herald who has won journalism awards...

Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy

Edward Ball

“Taking the reader along with him on a journey of discovery as he teases out facts, [Edward Ball] engages in...

The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America

Gus Russo

From Publishers Weekly Investigative reporter Russo (Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of...

Brotherhood Betrayed

Michael Cannell

A book that can whisk you away to another world – even the Mob underworld – has pronounced value...What Cannell has...

Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor

Andrew Kirtzman

A diagnostic study of Giuliani’s auto-destruct apparatus is probably beyond the capabilities of psychiatric case...

The Gashouse Gang: How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, and Their Colorful, Come-from-Behind Ball Club Won the World Series--and America's Heart--During the Great Depression

John Heidenry

About the Author John Heidenry is a native of St. Louis and was the founding editor, in 1977, of St. Louis magazine and...

Always Faithful, Always Forward: The Forging of a Special Operations Marine

Dick Couch

Review “An excellent...resource for those looking for insight into modern special operations warfare and...

Old Jules: 50th Anniversary Edition

Mari Sandoz

A realistic biography, a rare find. On putting down this book One feels that one has read the history of all...

Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire

Don Graham

* Full of myth and misunderstanding, there's a Texas for everyone... Graham writes about Texas recognizing the...

Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women

Marianne Monson

Nominated for the 2017 American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Award recognizing books that ''affirm positive roles...

Jefferson Davis, American

William J. Cooper

The title might seem odd, given that Jefferson Davis (1808-89) served as president of the Confederacy during the Civil...

The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century (World Social Change)

Robert Marks

In accessible prose, Robert Marks distills world history of the past six centuries to its essence. Truly global in...

The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House

H. R. Haldeman

From Booklist These diaries landed immediately on the best-seller list after their publication (no prepub galleys were...

Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars

John Huddy

“An amazing and absorbing story . . . [John] Huddy’s vivid, visceral prose and lean narrative make reading about...