Jr Jr : 7350 books
by Edward Steers Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
“In this encyclopedia of Lincoln’s assassination, Edward Steers, Jr., the foremost scholar of the assassination, has assembled knowledge of the subject scattered in documents and writings over a period of nearly a century and a half, organized it authoritatively and comprehensively, and written...
Lincoln Legends
Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
In the more than 140 years since his death, Abraham Lincoln has become America's most revered president. The mythmaking about this self-made man began early, some of it starting during his campaign for the presidency in 1860. As an American icon, Lincoln has been the subject of speculation and inquiry...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Patrice Lumumba was a fiery centrist whose goal was to unite the Congo's tribal factions into one governing body. My e-book looks at his rise to power beginning in 1951, his imprisonment for embezzlement, and his ambition for a unified African country. Lumumba can be described as non religious. His...
by Gene Edward Veith Jr., Marvin Olasky
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1990
Here is a guidebook for those who want to learn how to recognize books that are spiritually and aesthetically good--to cultivate good literary taste. Gene Edward Veith presents basic information to help book lovers understand what they read--from the classics to the bestsellers. He explains how the...
Hell-fer-Sartain
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Best known for sweeping historical novels about his homeland in the Southern United States, John Fox Jr. was interested in exploring the inner and outer landscape of the people who made the region unique. The engaging collection Hell-fer-Sartain and Other Stories is sure to please readers who appreciate incisive character studies served up with a stout dose of local color.
by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The Path of the Law is a short essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. A cornerstone of his jurisprudential philosophy was the prediction theory of law, believing the law should be defined specifically as a prediction...
After Hope and Change
The 2012 Elections and American Politics, Post 2014 Election Update
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Now updated to include the 2014 midterms and previewing the coming 2016 election cycle, After Hope and Change provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including the presidential nomination process and election and congressional elections. As they have for...
Freedomnomics
Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-baked Theories Don't
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
Are free market economies really based on fleecing the consumer? Is the U.S. economy truly just a giant free-for-all that encourages duplicity in our everyday transactions? Is everyone from corporate CEOs to your local car salesman really looking to make a buck at your expense? In Freedomnomics: Why...
Campaign Inc.
How Leadership and Organization Propelled Barack Obama to the White House
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
It takes more than an excellent candidate to win elections; it takes an outstanding campaign organization, too. Campaign Inc. is the story of how leadership and organization propelled Barack Obama to the White House. As the chief operating officer of Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Henry F....
The Gilded Age
Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society. Broad in scope, The Gilded...
The Big Snoop
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorists
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
When Edward Snowden hit the send button on a laptop in Hong Kong in June 2013, just shy of his 30th birthday, he became the poster boy for an acutely American conundrum: the tension between the government’s constitutional commitment to the privacy of individuals and its responsibility for the safety...
Who Killed the Constitution?
The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
“Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
—Thomas Jefferson
The United States Constitution—the bedrock of our country, the foundation of our federal republic—is . . . dead.
You won’t hear that from the...
Old Dominion, New Commonwealth
A History of Virginia, 1607–2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
"On the morning of 26 April 1607, three small ships carrying 143 Englishmen arrived off the Virginia coast of North America, having spent four months at sea.... All hoped for financial success and perhaps a little adventure; as it turned out, their tiny settlement eventually would evolve from...
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1999
A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian discusses “the Cold War, political parties, the presidency, and many broader philosophical issues [with] incisive wit” (Library Journal).
A celebrated historian, speechwriter, and adviser to President Kennedy, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. draws on decades...