Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with...
The Shattering: America in the 1960s
Author: Kevin Boyle
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
From the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade whose conflicts shattered America's postwar order and divide us still.On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered...
Island Infernos: The US Army's...
Author: John C. McManus
Publisher: Dutton Caliber
After some two years at war, the Army in the Pacific held ground across nearly a third of the globe, from Alaska's Aleutians to Burma and New Guinea. The challenges ahead were enormous: supplying a vast number of troops over thousands of miles of ocean; surviving in jungles ripe with dysentery, malaria, and other tropical...
Capote's Women: A True Story...
Author: Laurence Leamer
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
"There are certain women," Truman Capote wrote, "who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich." Barbara "Babe" Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy's sister) --they were the toast of midcentury New York,...
Brothers in Arms: One Legendary...
Author: James Holland
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
In the annals of World War II, certain groups of soldiers stand out, and among the most notable were the Sherwood Rangers. Originally a cavalry unit in the last days of horses in combat, whose officers were landed gentry leading men who largely worked for them, they were switched to the "mechanized cavalry" of tanks...
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United...
Author: Kyle T Mays
Publisher: ‎Beacon Press
The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early AmericaBeginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian...
Churchill's Shadow: The Life...
Author: Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
A major reassessment of Winston Churchill that examines his lasting influence in politics and culture.Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, if not the greatest of all, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German bombing of England, his political...
When Women Ruled the World: Making...
Author: Maureen Quilligan
Publisher: Liveright
A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious sixteenth century.Library Journal * "Books and Authors to Know: Titles to Watch 2021"Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilization of age-old norms and the waging...
