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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...
Verlagsinfo: Rucker and Leonnig have deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington, D.C., and for the past three years have chronicled in depth the ways President Donald Trump has...
'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen JonesBernie Sanders stormed to international headlines after running an extraordinary campaign for the Democratic primaries that saw...
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 Cambridge Gazetteer of the United States and Canada is a comprehensive, one-volume, alphabetically arranged encyclopedic dictionary of places. It contains over 12,000 entries based on...
Washington scandal is more than accidental -- it's an American tradition!
Political misdeeds are older than the republic. Throughout history an aggressive news media has consistently exposed...
This historical account of the interactions between native Americans, African-Americans and whites during the colonial period, centres on the premise that a deeper understanding of the...
JFK: Reckless Youth is the first volume of a monumental new biography of John F. Kennedy - a book that will astonish, entertain, and inform all those interested in the life of America's...
Iris Chang’s mysterious suicide in 2004, at age thirty-six, didn’t seem to make any sense. She had more to live for than anyone, including fame, fortune, beauty, a husband, and child. Some...
This historical reprint of a 1912 work describes those women who, alongside their husbands, experienced the trials and triumphs of the struggle for independence and the challenge of building...
Using primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, prominent scholar Charles Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising...
A surgeons view of the war in Iberia Charles Boutflower was the son of a Yorkshire vicar born in 1782. He studied surgery at the University of Edinburgh and joined the 40th Regiment 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...
A great many books have been written about Harlem, but for social history none has surpassed Gilbert Osofsky's account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan...
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States emerged as the lone, unrivaled superpower on the world stage. America's military, diplomatic and economic--not to mention its...
Relying on primary sources—oral history interviews, personal memoirs, newspaper articles, official records, diaries, and letters—E. R. Milner cuts through myth and legend to create this...
With the publication of his first book, "For Common Things," Jedediah Purdy "stormed the capital . . . with an unfashionably passionate attack on the dangers of modern passionlessness" and...
Over the last five years, "Vows," on the Sunday New York Times' wedding pages, has become one of the paper's most popular columns. Each week a new couple is profiled in the engaging,...
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'.
The news was received with great joy, both by...
Moore's revealing and hilarious 'anti-memoir' is now published in paperback. He presents 20 far-ranging, irreverent vignettes from from his early life, where he had an uncanny knack of...
The third edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology contains many of the most significant documents in American intellectual history. It includes new selections from a...
Powerful and necessary, a state-of-the-nation portrait of America under Obama from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Between the World and MeFrom 2008-2016, the leader of the free...
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald...
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller. From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald...
