Ronald: 2667 books
by Ronald S. Coddington
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
A renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald S. Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war. This third volume in his series on Civil War soldiers contains previously unpublished photographs of...
In the Ruins of Empire
The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
The New York Times said of Ronald H. Spector’s classic account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, “No future book on the Pacific War will be written without paying due tribute to Eagle Against the Sun.” Now Spector has returned with a book that is even more revealing....
by Ronald G. Walters
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1997
For this new edition of American Reformers 1815-1860, Ronald G. Walters has amplified and updated his exploration of the fervent and diverse outburst of reform energy that shaped American history in the early years of the Republic. Capturing in style and substance the vigorous and often flamboyant...
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
Condé Nast
The Man and His Empire -- A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
The first biography in over thirty years of Condé Nast, the pioneering publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair and main rival to media magnate William Randolph Hearst.
Condé Nast’s life and career was as high profile and glamourous as his magazines. Moving to New York in the early twentieth...
Time Traveler
A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
This is the dramatic and inspirational first-person story of theoretical physicist, Dr. Ronald Mallett, who recently discovered the basic equations for a working time machine that he believes can be used as a transport vehicle to the past. Combining elements of Rocket Boys and Elegant Universe, Time...
Balmoral
Queen Victoria's Highland Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
First published in 1981, this is Ronald Clark's engagingly readable account of Queen Victoria's relationship with "Our dear Balmoral" and the life that went on there.
The biography of Balmoral begins with the first visit to Scotland of the young Queen Victoria and her husband Prince...
The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War
Architecture of Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive grand strategy, involving the coordinated use of the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic...
America in the Great War
The Rise of the War Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1994
After such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event. It conjures up images of trenches, horse-drawn wagons, and old-fashioned wide-brimmed helmets--a conflict closer to the Civil War than to our own time. It hardly seems...
by Ronald Dunham
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
This is a story about growing up in the 1950's and 1960's and how the social attitudes of the day made it impossible to come to terms with one's sexuality in light of those attitudes. It is also the story of reconciliation of one's sexuality to the true belief in the existence...
The Bureau
The Secret History of the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
No institution is as critically important to America's security. No American institution is as controversial. And, after the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court, no institution is as powerful. Yet until now, no book has presented the full story of the FBI from its beginnings in 1908 to the...
The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991
The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1997
For half of the twentieth century, the Cold War gripped the world. International relations everywhere--and domestic policy in scores of nations--pivoted around this central point, the American-Soviet rivalry. Even today, much of the world's diplomacy grapples with chaos created by the Cold War's sudden...
Hollywood Beauty
Linda Darnell and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
At fifteen, Linda Darnell left her Texas home and normal adolescence to live the Hollywood dream promoted by fan magazine and studio publicity offices. She appeared in dozens of films and won international acclaim for Blood and Sand (playing opposite Tyrone Power), Forever Amber, A Letter to Three...
by Ronald Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
The English Civil War remains the most prolonged and traumatic example of internal violence in the history of the state. The Royalist War Effort, 1642-1646 shows the build up to the outbreak of the war, detailing how the war was fought, and how, ultimately, it was won and lost.
In his new...