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Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization
Joe Scarborough · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The host of MSNBC's Morning Joe reveals how President Harry Truman defended democracy against the Soviet threat at the dawn of the Cold War.Harry Truman had been vice president for less than three months when President Franklin Roosevelt died. Suddenly inaugurated the leader of the free... |
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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
Seb Falk · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk.Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages... |
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War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Margaret MacMillan · Random House
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war - organized violence - comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity's history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest... |
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Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
James Sullivan · Scribner
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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More than the story of a single, savage engagement, Unsinkable traces the individual journeys of five men on one ship from Casablanca in North Africa, to Sicily and Salerno in Italy and then on to Plunkett's defining moment at Anzio, where a dozen-odd German bombers bore down on the ship... |
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Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland
Issac J. Bailey · Other Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of complex, divisive topics - from police brutality and Confederate symbols to respectability politics and white discomfort - which have taken on a fresh urgency with the protest movement sparked by George Floyd's... |
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Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson
Format: Hardcover
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The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 43-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night's events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation's history and the sort of social... |
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