Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Erik Larson Vintage Vintage
Reading in his signature dispassionate style, narrator Edward Herrmann brings an eerie calm to this powerful chronicle of the deadliest storm ever to hit the United States--a huge and terribly destructive hurricane that struck land near...
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American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
Howard Blum Crown Crown
It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men,...
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How the States Got Their Shapes
Mark Stein Collins Collins
Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake? We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities—the entire state of...
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The Irony of American History
Reinhold Niebuhr University Of Chicago Press University Of Chicago Press
“[Niebuhr] is one of my favorite philosophers. I take away [from his works] the compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain. And we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those...
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Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause
Tom Gjelten Viking Adult Viking Adult
A unique history of Cuba, captured in the life and times of the famous rum dynasty The Bacardis of Cuba, builders of a rum distillery and a worldwide brand, came of age with their nation and helped define what it meant to be Cuban. Across five...
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Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Mark Mazower Penguin Press HC, The Penguin Press HC, The
Drawing on an unprecedented variety of sources, Mark Mazower reveals how the Nazis designed, maintained, and ultimately lost their European empire and offers a chilling vision of the world Hitler would have made had he won the war . Germany’s...
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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
James M. McPherson Penguin Press HC, The Penguin Press HC, The
James McPherson, a bestselling historian of the Civil War, illuminates how Lincoln worked with—and often against— his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and create the role of commander in chief as we know it . Though Abraham Lincoln...
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution
T. J. English William Morrow William Morrow
In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—the old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars, and flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar and often romanticized, but little understood. In ...
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan Mariner Books Mariner Books
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a...
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer Anchor Anchor
In 1984, Ron and Dan Lafferty murdered the wife and infant daughter of their younger brother Allen. The crimes were noteworthy not merely for their brutality but for the brothers' claim that they were acting on direct orders from God. In Under the...
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