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,”...
A biography profiling the life of Benjamin Franklin and his leadership as a politician, scientist, inventor, and printer. Includes source notes and timeline.
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...
"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....
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...
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...
At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America, a follow-up to her much-celebrated history of the United...
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...
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...
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...
A former secretary of defense offers a candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
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,...
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...
The Clinton Tapes was a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. During his eight years in office, Clinton met...
"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...
Although European expansion was the driving force that first opened up the frontier land called America, the growth of the new nation would be forged over the centuries by the diverse...
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...
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...
1491 verandert voorgoed ons beeld van de geschiedenis van de amerika's In 1491 woonden er misschien wel meer mensen in Amerika dan in Europa. Grote steden als Tenochtitlán hadden stromend...
The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in the founding fathers so intense that a reader or television viewer of today might imagine that America was the creation of...
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who...
Unieke kijk op rassenpolitiek tijdens en na het Obama-tijdperk Van de allereerste zwarte president van de Verenigde Staten naar de verkiezing van de man die door Coates wordt omschreven...
Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from constituents. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. This is the story of the profound ways in which they shaped...
The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass...
Op 24 juli 1974 doet het Amerikaanse Hooggerechtshof uitspraak in een zaak tussen President Nixon en de Special Prosecutor Jaworski. Het Hof beslist dat Nixon vertrouwelijke bandopnamen van...
Dit Amerika is een vervolg op Deze waarheden, Jill Lepore’s veelgeprezen geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten. In een tijd van grote wanhoop over de toekomst van de democratie, is dit boek...
The captivating, inside story of the woman who helmed the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for...
Een inspirerend verhaal van een wereldwijd icoon, nu met exclusief nawoord voor Nederlandse editie 'Het is een lofzang op de eerste zwarte vrouw in het Witte Huis.'De Telegraaf Met...
