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  • Hillbilly Elegy

    A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    par J. D. Vance ...
    Hillbilly Elegy recounts Vice President J.D. Vance's powerful origin story...From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as the Vice President of the United States, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class.THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"You will not read a more importa... ... En savoir plus

    Avant CHF 10.98 Après CHF 7.20

  • These Truths

    A History of the United States

    par Jill Lepore ...
    **New York Times BestsellerIn the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history.**Two hundred fifty years after the United States declared its independence and cast off tyranny, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.64

  • Gotham

    A History of New York City to 1898

    Collection series The History of NYC Series
    To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the ... En savoir plus

    CHF 22.25

  • The Flight

    Charles Lindbergh's Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing

    par Dan Hampton ...
    "GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." — WALL STREET JOURNAL • From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account of Lindbergh’s death-defying nonstop transatlantic flight in Spirit of St. LouisOn the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known American pilot named Charles A. Lindbergh climbed into his single-engine monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, and prepared ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.99

  • We Carry Their Bones

    The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

    par Erin Kimmerle ...
    "With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice." –Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground RailroadForensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.05

  • The Big Fella

    Babe Ruth and the World He Created

    par Jane Leavy ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive Babe Ruth biography—the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:The Boston Globe | Publishers Weekly | Kirkus | Newsweek | The Philadelphia Inquirer | The ProgressiveWinner of the 2019 SABR Seymour Medal | ... En savoir plus

    CHF 12.12

  • The Bookshop

    A History of the American Bookstore

    par Evan Friss ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGoodreads Choice Award Winner in History & BiographyOne of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024"A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." —The New York Times"It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book." —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author and owner of Books Are ... En savoir plus

    CHF 5.94

  • The Greatest and Deadliest Hurricanes of the Caribbean and the Americas

    The Stories Behind the Great Storms of the North Atlantic

    par Wayne Neely ...
    With modern weather forecasting, we can monitor, track, and predict the path of hurricanes like never before. But all you have to do is look at pictures of the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina or research the massive cleanup costs of Hurricane Sandy to realize that these storms can still have devastating consequences. Wayne Neely, a meteorologist at the Department of Meteorology in Nassau, Bahamas ... En savoir plus

    CHF 4.60

  • CHANT OF AGES; CRY OF COTTON

    THE BIOGRAPHY OF A SOUTH GEORGIA JEWISH COMMUNITY'S BEGINNINGS, 1865-1908

    par Louis Schmier ...
    The beginnings of the contemporary Jewish community in Valdosta starts with the arrival of two Jewish confederate veterans, Abraham Ehrlich and Benjamin Kaul, in 1866 and ends with the formal establishment of the present-day congregation in 1908.  It is a very warm, personal tale of real people that fleshes out  the sterile charts, statistics, and sweeping generalizations found in history books. ... En savoir plus

    CHF 6.54

  • Women Marked for History

    New Mexico's Women Leaders in Community and Government, Education, Military, Business, Healing Arts and Medicine, Entertainment, Cultural Preservation and the Arts

    New Mexico's Historical Marker Project has served an important part in the way New Mexico tells its story to visitors, residents, and future generations. Lining the miles of highways and roads across its beautiful countryside, each marker has a unique story that provides those passing by with information about an intriguing historical moment or influential individual in the area. Thanks to the New ... En savoir plus

    CHF 5.11

  • Sunshine on the Prairie

    The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker

    par Jack C Ramsay ...
    SUNSHINE ON THE PRAIRIE is the story of CYNTHIA ANN PARKER, captured by a band of Comanches as a nine-year-old while living in Fort Parker with her family. It was 24 years before she was "re-captured" by her "white family". This is the intriguing story of why she did not want to be rescued from her Comanche family. During her 24-year captivity, she had become a wife to Nocona, the most feared of ... En savoir plus

    CHF 6.75

  • Strangers Among Us

    This book is to give credit to those immigrants who contributed to the growth and economic development of Blackford County. Indiana when oil and gas were discovered here in the late 19th century. In the immigrants eyes this was the fulfillment of their dreams to come to a new hand and have the opportunity for a better life for themselves and their families.Truly, America was a Melting Pot and our ... En savoir plus

    CHF 9.32

  • Monumental Legacy

    The Rise and Fall of Hamburg, South Carolina

    par Barbara Seaborn ...
    Every town has its lore, and Hamburg, South Carolina, was no exception. In its early days, upstate farmers brought their crops to ship or sell and shop for supplies in this bustling waterfront town situated along the Savannah River. Although many accomplishments of historic proportions were achieved in the town, at least part of what we thought we knew about Hamburg may not really be what happened ... En savoir plus

    CHF 4.60

  • Texas Warbird Survivors 2003

    A Handbook on Where to Find Them

    Many examples of aircraft that saw service in the various armed forces of the United States are currently being restored to flying status or preserved in museums in the state of Texas. Some of them have significant war records, and a few are currently standing as gate guardians outside their former airbases. These Warbirds are a permanent part of our modern history, and they deserve to be remarked ... En savoir plus

    CHF 4.60

  • Antes

    Stories from the Past, Rural Cuba, New Mexico, 1769-1949

    Cuba, New Mexico, was first settled in 1769. Originally known as Nacimiento, it was located on the northwestern edge of the Spanish Colonial Empire. It was very isolated and the people who settled Cuba seldom travelled to other areas due to the lack of roads and long distances between settlements. As a consequence, Cuba retained many of the traditions, practices and archaic language of the early ... En savoir plus

    CHF 4.67

  • Disaster By the Bay: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

    par Howard Brinkley ...
    Over 3,000 dead. Buildings shaken to the ground. A city, surrounded by water, burnt to the ground. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was one of the most destructive natural disasters the world has ever known.In the aftermath of the Earthquake, authorities learned the hard way that the city was vastly unprepared for any disaster. Find out what happened and how the city was repaired in this ... En savoir plus

    CHF 5.60

  • Ghosts of Time

    par Don Goodman ...
    Based on the multiple lives and tumultuous times of Vance Moran, Ghosts of Time takes the reader on an extraordinary, often unbelievable real-life adventure. An abusive childhood in the swamps of Louisiana, a family breadwinner at age six, alone by the age of twelve and being a professional boxer does not prepare Vance for what he faces as a US Military pilot at eighteen on a secret mission behind ... En savoir plus

    CHF 4.60

  • A History of Culver and The Culver Military Academy

    par Mark A. Roeder ...
    Did you know that:- Buffalo Bill, Will Rogers, and Jesse Owen have visited Culver?- Culver has been home to some three dozen hotels?- Jesse James once robbed Mr. Culver?- A five year old attempted to hold up the Culver Bank?- Culver is the sixth name of our town?These facts and a wealth of other material are to be found in A History of Culver and The Culver Military Academy.Culver, Indiana has a ... En savoir plus

    CHF 6.49

  • Chattanooga and How the Union Held It, Illustrated

    par W F G Shanks ...
    This is a brief description of Chattanooga how the Union forces managed to hold out in during the siege of the beleaguered city during the Confederate push on the City. Illustrated. ... En savoir plus

    CHF 2.80

  • Sawners of Chandler

    A Pioneering Power Couple in Pre-Civil Rights Oklahoma

    Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its Historical Racial Trauma, endorsed by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and the 400 Years of African American History Commission, furthers the educational mission of both bodies. The book offers updates on developments in Tulsa generally and in Tulsa's Greenwood District specifically since the publication of Hannibal B. ... En savoir plus

    CHF 8.09

  • Wild Horses in My Blood

    An 1890s Girlhood in New Mexico

    Eva Pendleton Henderson, a member of the historical Chisum family, recounts her life on the windy border country of southern New Mexico in the 1890s when it was still a territory. Growing up in a time of legends—Pancho Villa afoot, the rumblings of the first automobile terrifying horses as well as men, drought and fate walking hand in hand, the end of the old West and the beginning of the new. An ... En savoir plus

    CHF 4.67

  • From Crockett to Custer

    par Mike Martin ...
    Two legendary battles which sprang from the depths of history to shine as symbols of self sacrifice, heroism and glorious defeat. Encounters which took the lives of two of America's most famous figures: Davy Crockett and General Custer.What is the essential link between the battles of the Alamo and the Little Bighorn? Why did Crockett choose to leave a safe political career to throw in his lot ... En savoir plus

    CHF 4.60

  • The Outlet

    par Adams Andy ...
    The Civil War brought destruction and disaster to all walks of life in America. Adams has here touched upon one aspect rarely considered by other authors. The great cattle of Texas that was left uncared for and became a hazard to the owners and the government is the theme of this novel. He has dwelled on the heroic efforts made by many to solve this problem. Motivating! ... En savoir plus

    CHF 4.67

  • A Brief History of the Legal Profession in New York to 1900, Illustrated

    par Henry Howland ...
    A Brief look at the history of the practice of Law in New York to 1900. ... En savoir plus

    CHF 2.80