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A "thoroughly researched [and] historically enlightening" account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia split in two in the midst of war ( Civil War News ). "West Virginia was the child of the storm." —Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran Maj. Theodore F. Lang As...
An informative look at the military conflicts that most altered the course of history and civilization, from ancient times to the modern world. Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed the World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the...
Comic essays from the author of Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style: "There's no book wiser or half as funny as I Shudder." —David Sedaris  I Shudder is a side-splittingly funny collection of essays from Paul Rudnick, one of America's preeminent humorists—a...
A "thoroughly researched [and] historically enlightening" account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia split in two in the midst of war (Civil War News). "West Virginia was the child of the storm." —Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran Maj. Theodore F. Lang As...
An informative look at the military conflicts that most altered the course of history and civilization, from ancient times to the modern world. Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed the World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the...
E ighty-five articles and essays by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison that interpret and promote the US Constitution. Three of America's Founding Fathers—Alexander Hamilton, General George Washington's chief of staff and first secretary of the treasury;...
How Genghis Khan and the Mongols conquered nearly one-sixth of the planet: "The fascinating story of history's most misunderstood empire builders." —Alan Axelrod, bestselling author of Miracle at Belleau Wood Emerging out of the vast steppes of Central Asia in the...
“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book.” —Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsFrom the...
From the bestselling author of Shoot for the Moon and A Terrible Glory comes the dramatic story of the courageous paratroopers and glidermen of the 82nd Airborne, who risked their lives to seize and secure a small, centuries-old bridge in France that played a pivotal...
A "finely crafted" study of J. Edgar Hoover, George McCarthy, Roy Cohn and the use of gossip in 1950s US politics (Library Journal, starred review)."A juicy introduction to three of the most controversial figures in twentieth-century American politics. . . ....