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The inspiration for the major Apple TV+ series, streaming now! The riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II and the young men who flew the bombers that helped beat the Nazis and liberate Europe, brilliantly told by historian and World War II...
First published as The Years That Matter MostFrom best-selling author Paul Tough, an indelible and explosive book on the glaring injustices of higher education, including unfair admissions tests, entrenched racial barriers, and crushing student debt. Now updated and...
A collection of World War II writings and images by Studs Terkel, Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Howard Zinn, Nelson Peery, Elisabeth Freund, and others.The most destructive war in human history, World War II continues to generate an astonishingly rich trove of...
This New York Times bestseller "elegantly weaves evidence and insights . . . into a single, accessible historical narrative" (Bill Gates) and presents a captivating history of the universe -- from the Big Bang to dinosaurs to mass globalization and beyond.Most...
Alan Taylor is featured in THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt on PBS"Excellent…deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness." —Brendan Simms, Wall Street...
Just in time for the 75th anniversary, the first book-length investigation into one of the great unsolved mysteries from the early days of the Cold War, when an American cargo plane allegedly carrying an atomic bomb over the Atlantic Ocean disappeared, along with the...
"[A] brilliant and creative vindication of democracy . . . a theology of Western culture which remains intellectually unsurpassed." —Larry Rasmussen in Reinhold Niebuhr: Theologian of Public Life The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, first published in...
A fully revised and updated guide to America’s bloodiest and most divisive conflict – 165 years on.Comprehensive and packed with contemporary paintings, photographs, maps, and important artefacts, The American Civil War explores the history, causes, and consequences...
“Jaunty.… Davis excels in making his characters come alive on the page.” —Christoph Irmscher, Wall Street JournalThe epic road trips—and surprising friendship—of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern...
The true story of Hitler’s plot to turn Hollywood’s Dream Factory into a Nazi propaganda machine—and the Jewish moguls’ clandestine operation to sabotage the Reich’s insidious reach. World War II began at Hollywood and Vine. From the moment Hitler took power in...
