The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty, Paperback - Lawrence Otis Graham

Reducere. Blanche Kelso Bruce was born a slave in 1841, yet, remarkably, amassed a real-estate fortune and became the first black man to serve a full term in...

Reducere. A 2014 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist They became America s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tany...

Through the Gate explores the story of the first recorded mass shooting in the United States.Publisher: Octopus Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Ellen J....

Reducere. The Hiltons is a sweeping saga of the success-and excess-of an iconic American family. Demanding and enigmatic, patriarch Conrad Hilton's visionary...

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The true story of the first Black Medal of Freedom winner--a remarkable account of one of the most memorable battles in Civil War history.Sergeant ...

Reducere. Before Lewis and Clark relates the extraordinary saga of the Chouteaus, the dynastic family that guarded the gates to the West for three generation...

Reducere. Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universall...

Now with an all-new bonus chapter - in the bestselling The Kennedy Curse, 'James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history .

Reducere. Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service and went to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) when...

Reducere. Furry fandom is a recent phenomenon, but anthropomorphism is an instinct hard-wired into the human mind: the desire to see animals on a more equal ...

Reducere. The December 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the subsequent detention and internment of America citizens of Japanese ancest...

Reducere. The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spree *** A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911. As a terrible heat wave ki...

Reducere. Now in paperback--a "thrilling narrative of bravery, bravado, and loss" (Kirkus Reviews) that tells the "gripping story of a handful of marines who...

Reducere. The Real Thomas Jefferson: The True Story of America's Philosopher of FreedomJefferson is the central figure in American history, and...he may yet ...

Reducere. A vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and research, that busts the myths about middle class...

Reducere. For the first time, this ground-breaking book tells the forgotten story of the true genesis of the June 25, 1876 disaster along the Little Bighorn,...

The Annotated Joseph and His Friend: The Story of America's First Gay Novel contains the original novel by Bayard Taylor, with annotations and comm...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry Louis GatesIn 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descen...

Reducere. Investigator and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ian Halperin pulls back the curtain on America's notorious Kardashian family's seemingly mete...

Reducere. Vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and research, that busts the myths about middle class d...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mistresses of Cliveden, an enthralling, sumptuous and surprising history of the Rothschild womenPub...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of training, combat, and segregation written by multiple members of the Tuskegee Airmen *Includes online reso...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Turn: Washington's Spies, now an original series on AMC Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Katherine EbanIn the tradition of the great investigative classics, Dangerous Doses exposes the dark side of America's phar...

BLACK DAHLIA: The Story of America's Most Gruesome MurderThe sun rose over Los Angeles that Wednesday morning in 1947, and a light breeze from the ...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race.Pub...

Ernest C. Brace was a former Marine hero, banished in disgrace from the Corps. In 1965, while working as a civilian pilot in Laos, he was captured ...

The memoir of the Met's first Black police officer, who joined in 1967. From that day forward his face became a symbol - of acceptance, of a divers...

A short, compelling history of Black Britons during the First World War, for readers aged 8 to 12Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Stephen...

11 Oak Street is the true story of how the Queen's bankers, Coutts & Co, sent two cashier's cheques to a law firm in San Francisco with the wrong a...

Reducere. This is the journey over five decades of Peg Wyant who navigated from Mad Men through Me Too and motherhoodYounger women trying excel at being a wo...

Reducere. With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps--the last all-white branch of the U.S. military--...

A sexual sadist, the Zodiac's pleasure was torture and murder. He taunted the authorities with mocking notes telling where he would strike next. Th...

When Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859, he shocked the world. In it he claimed that humans were just another animal species th...

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In this "sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend" (Publishers Weekly)--the remarkable Major Taylor who became the w...

Alice, a young woman prone to intuitive insights and loyalty to the only family she has ever known, leaves England for the rigid colony of the Mass...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of HammurabiThe story of Hammurabi is the story of forty-three years jampacked with conquest, temple and wall build...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD officer harassing a Black Panther for selling the organization's newspaper on a Harlem street ...

DescriptionIn 1994, Robert Black was convicted of the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of four young girls, and sentenced to life imprisonment...

Reducere. Latitude is a gloriously exciting tale of adventure and scientific discovery that has never been told before. Crane, the former president of the Ro...

Reducere. A national bestseller—over 7 million copies sold. "[A] social document of rare importance."—The New Republic. Prosecuting attorney in the Manson tr...

11 Oak Street is the true story of how the Queen's bankers, Coutts & Co, sent two cashier's cheques to a law firm in San Francisco with the wrong a...

DescriptionIt's 1942 and Hitler's armies stand astride Europe like a colossus. Germany is winning on every front. This is the story of how one of t...

Reducere. When the SARS virus broke out in China in January 2003, Karl Taro Greenfeld was the editor of Time Asia in Hong Kong, just a few miles from the epi...

DescriptionIn this rhyming, hilarious romp about a little-known facet of American history, Thomas Jefferson tries to disprove a French theory that ...