Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Few endeavors in history can match Ford Motor Company’s impact on human civilization. Launched a century ago by a bumptious squad of clever eccentrics — led by the odd visionary mechanic Henry Ford — the first mass-production auto manufacturer pushed the rest of the industrialized world into the modern age. Along…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Acclaimed historians Stephen Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley, accompanied by award-winning National Geographic photographer Sam Abell, explore the entire length of the Mississippi — from its mouth at Delacroix Island, Louisiana, to its source at Lake Itasca, Minnesota, as it flows past ten states and casts a potent spell over an entire…
Book Description Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, “a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought.” A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, and The Course…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist (1968–1976) is a collection of hundreds of letters Hunter S. Thompson wrote (as well as a handful he received) after his rise to fame with his 1966 hit Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. These…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Called “a feast of a book” by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Witness to America is a classic collection of primary source accounts covering the history of the United States, from George Washington to Barack Obama and everything in between. Originally compiled in 1938 by Henry Steele Commager and Allan Nevins and revised with Stephen…
Book Description When John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the thirty-fifth president of the United States in January 1961, the Cold War was in its height. Although the Soviet Union’s menace and reach were global and its best opportunities for expansion lay in the newer, poorer countries of the Third World, Kennedy believed that Europe…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Douglas Brinkley takes us on the incredible journey of the United States – a nation formed from a vast countryside on whose fringes a few small colonies made a bold cast at freedom, then burgeoned into an expanding democracy, and ultimately flourished as a world power. From the first primitive maps…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content It is not a stretch to argue that history will remember Jimmy Carter for his post-presidential works long after his tenure in the White House has been forgotten. But as Douglas Brinkley points out in this absorbing study, it took such presidential accomplishments as human rights advocacy, the Camp David Accords,…
Book Description Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America’s most influential and incisive journalists — Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who’s Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez — not to mention…
Book Description Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush, offers a concise and informative overview of the evolution of American foreign policy from 1938 to the present, focusing on such…
Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content By Amazon: At a time when it is fashionable to declare the United Nations as part of the problem, rather than the solution, to international conflicts, two noted historians lucidly explain how the original objective of the body has been lost among indecision, ideological quarreling, and a lack of clear leadership.…
Book Description In August 1941 Churchill and Roosevelt met in a secluded bay off the coast of Newfoundland. It was the first of their wartime meetings and in many respects the most significant. The Atlantic Charter, its result, proclaimed the two leaders’ vision of a new world order, a set of principles that would govern…
