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De vermeende banden tussen de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump en de Russische president Vladimir Poetin zijn actueler...
A dramatic portrait of one of AmericaÕs most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S Grant, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Ron Chernow. Hailed as a military genius in the American...
Ruim 150 jaar geleden brak de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog uit. Dit grootste en bloedigste conflict op Amerikaanse bodem hield het land vier jaar lang in een wurgende greep en liet na afloop...
Pulitzer Prize-winnende autobiografie van de grote vrouw achter de Watergate-onthullingen. Katharine Graham was een timide telg uit een roemrucht en steenrijk geslacht. Als kind werd ze aan...
From the moment they first cut a swathe of crime across 1930s America, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker have been glamorised in print, on screen and in legend. The reality of their brief and...
The time: January-November 1963. The place: Saigon. The circumstances: the subversion from inside and out of a fledgling nation, and the promotion, by some of the Kennedy administration's...
Bernard B. Fall was 40 years old when he was killed by a booby trap in northern South Vietnam on February 21, 1967. By the time of his death he had already authored seven books on Vietnam,...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist explores the lesser-known elements of heroism and pathos that marked the Korean War, in a narrative successor to The Best and the Brightest that evaluates...
De aanslagen van 11 september 2001 hebben de wereld veranderd, maar er is weinig bekend over wat er die dag werkelijk gebeurde. Een toenemend aantal deskundigen heeft ernstige twijfels bij...
Over a 200-year period thousands of newspaper reports, town and county histories, letters, photos, diaries, and scientific journals have documented the existence of an ancient race of giants...
A narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop movements but also the social background that brought on the war and led, in the end, to the...
Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States”...
In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the 20th century's most contentious dramas: the Scopes trial that pit William Jennings Bryan and...
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up...
Is Donald Trump serieus gestoord? En hoe gestoord is dan zijn aanhang, in Washington en daarbuiten? Hoe kon een man als hij zoveel steun verwerven? Zou zoiets ook bij ons in Europa kunnen...
The gruesome murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short, in the noir-tinged Los Angeles of 1947, has a permanent place in American lore as one of the most inscrutable of true-crime mysteries....
Sinds het brute politie optreden in de VS waarbij de zwarte Amerikaan George Floyd het leven liet, is de wereld zo op het oog in hevige beroering geraakt; alom lijkt sprake te zijn van...
Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize. Foreword by Carl Mydans. A stunning sequel to the James Agee and Walker Evans classic; "Let Us Now Praise famous Men". With photographs.
"From the first battle between Spaniards and Maya in 1517 to a fight between members of the U.S. Army and Mexicans in 1916, [this book] examines more than 350 battles, in A-to-Z format....
In this book Robert Crunden puts the “jazz” back in Jazz Age. Jazz was America’s greatest contribution to the Modernist movement, yet it is much overlooked. When we hear the term “Jazz Age,”...
Exploring Lewis and Clark probes beneath the traditional narrative of the journey, looking beyond the perspectives of the explorers themselves to those of the woman and the men who...
"The Island at the Center of the World strips Manhattan of its asphalt, bringing us back to a wilderness island--a hunting ground for Indians, populated by wolves and bears--that became a...
Unieke k?k op rassenpolitiek t?dens en na het Obama-t?dperk
Van de allereerste zwarte president van de Verenigde Staten naar de verkiezing van de man die door Coates wordt omschreven als...
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up...
Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionLonglisted for the 2018 National Book Award for NonfictionFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars, the epic...
A journalist and former Baghdad bureau chief for The Washington Post furnishes a revealing look at life in Baghdad's Green Zone, the headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq,...
Team of Rivals is a brilliant, multi-million selling biography, now the inspiration for a major Stephen Spielberg film starring Daniel Day-Lewis 'A wonderful book . . . a remarkable study in...
