A celebration of American pop culture captures the unique qualities and eclecticism of American design and its influence on international culture in a colorful array of more than 350 iconic...
In vogelvlucht wordt een kleurrijk beeld gegeven van de veelheid aan rijke, oude culturen die op het Amerikaanse continent tot ontwikkeling waren gekomen voor de ontmoeting met de Europese...
"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...
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 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...
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...
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...
In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible,...
Robert McNeely -- President Bill Clinton's official photographer from 1992 to 1998 -- has traveled the world and roamed the halls of the White House, a virtual fly-on-the-wall, documenting...
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...
With the quite brilliant }Nathaniel's Nutmeg{, Giles Milton established himself as a writer of quality popular history, and this book is a worthy successor. Documenting the establishment of...
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...
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...
In Amerika Ontketend ontwikkelen de auteurs de interessante stelling dat George W. Bush een sterk en besluitvaardig leider is, met een coherente visie op de wereldpolitiek. Zij zien hem niet...
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...
On the eve of the 40th Anniversary of the JFK Assassination, from Stateville Correctional Center, Joliet Illinois, confessed assassin James Earl Files tells of his role in The Crime of the...
The voices of Brooklyn:“I’m a Brooklyn guy, it’s in my bones and it’s there in Brooklyn. There’s a certain rhythm you get growing up there. Every Brooklyn kid has it. Always on the right...
Great Roundup is the story of the beginning of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. Meet the tough and independent men who shaped and guided this colorful business, and...
Maps have always been powerful instruments for the dissemination of information. Symbolizing the world, identifying landmasses and waterways, and defining our borders, maps help to create...
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,...
"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....
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,...
Collects over one hundred classics of American investigative journalism, including Frederick Douglass' "Escape to Freedom," John Steinbeck's "Harvest Gypsies," and Ralph Nader's "Unsafe at...
