The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty (Page Susan)(Pevná vazba)

The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty (Page Susan)(Pevná vazba)

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'[The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory.' -- The AtlanticA vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history

Robert Motherwell - The Making of an American Giant (Jacobson Bernard)(Pevná vazba)

In Robert Motherwell: The Making of an American Giant, published to coincide with Motherwell's centenary, author Bernard Jacobson examines Motherwell's art in the context of 20th-century American culture. America's music and literature were indigenous triumphs, while its art was slowly learning to

Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937 (Hahn Barbara M.)(Paperback)

In her sweeping history of the American tobacco industry, Barbara Hahn traces the emergence of the tobacco plant's many varietal types, arguing that they are products not of nature but of economic relations and continued and intense market regulation. Hahn focuses her study on the most popular of

Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power (Page Susan)(Pevná vazba)

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The definitive biography of Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American political history, written by New York Times bestselling author and USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page. Featuring more than 150 exclusive interviews with those who know her

An American Covenant: A Story of Women, Mysticism, and the Making of Modern America (Scott Lucile)(Pevná vazba)

A history of mystic resistance and liberation and of five women who transcended the expected to transform America.For centuries, women who emerge as mystic leaders have played vital roles in American culture. For just as long, they've been subjugated and ridiculed. Today, women and others across

The Strenuous Life: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of the American Athlete (Swanson Ryan)(Pevná vazba)

Featuring an amazing cast of historical figures, this is the story of how President Theodore Roosevelt led an American sports and fitness revolution. Give up exercise, Theodore Roosevelt was told by a doctor while attending Harvard, or you might die of a heart attack! This after being plagued by

The Transformation of American International Power in the 1970s (Zanchetta Barbara)(Pevná vazba)

Barbara Zanchetta analyzes the evolution of American-Soviet relations during the 1970s, from the rise of d tente during the Nixon administration to the policy's crisis and fall during the final years of the Carter presidency. This study traces lines of continuity among the Nixon, Ford, and Carter

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty (Cooper Anderson)(Pevná vazba)

CNN anchor and New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.Few names are as synonymous with wealth and glamour as

The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon (Vantoch Victoria)(Pevná vazba)

In the years after World War II, the airline stewardess became one of the most celebrated symbols of American womanhood. Stewardesses appeared on magazine covers, on lecture circuits, and in ad campaigns for everything from milk to cigarettes. Airlines enlisted them to pose for publicity shots,

West: The American Cowboy (Krantz Anouk Masson)(Pevná vazba)

-Exceptional fine art photography - several years in the making - of the American cowboy/cowgirl and rodeo communities, the horse and cattle ranches, and the remarkable landscape of America's Wild West, by celebrated and award-winning photographer, Anouk Masson Krantz -Intimate explorations and

Island Home - The uplifting page-turner making life brighter in 2021 (Page Libby)(Pevná vazba)

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LIDO comes an uplifting new story about friendship, community and finding where you truly

Paper Trails: The Us Post and the Making of the American West (Blevins Cameron)(Pevná vazba)

A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated the most

Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream (Imani Blair)(Pevná vazba)

A powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the rise of hip hop. The Great Migration--when six million Black Americans left the American South for northern and western cities--sparked stunning demographic and

The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism (Berfield Susan)(Pevná vazba)

A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue, and two of American history's most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality. It seemed like no force in the world could slow J. P. Morgan's drive to power. In the summer of

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Massie Robert K.)(Pevná vazba)

Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet (West Martha Ullman)(Pevná vazba)

Martha Ullman West illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a stylistically diverse expression of a democratic culture. West places at center stage two artists who were instrumental to this story:

Addicted to Americana: Celebrating Classic & Kitschy American Life & Style (Phoenix Charles)(Pevná vazba)

An adventure through the classic, the vintage, the kitsch, the nostalgic, and the fun of Americana culture guided by showman Charles Phoenix.'Addicted to Americana...unfurls the most colorful, most creative, and most interesting facets of mid-twentieth century American culture in a joyful,

Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon (Laurie Greg)(Pevná vazba)

Join Greg Laurie, pastor and bestselling author of Steve McQueen: The Salvation of an American Icon, as he takes you on a personal journey into the life and legend of Johnny Cash. At the peak of his career, Cash had done it all--living the ultimate rags-to-riches story of growing up on a cotton

The Bronte Sisters and George Eliot: A Unity of Difference (Prentis Barbara)(Pevná vazba)

An approach to the lives, thought and works of the Bronte sisters and George Eliot. Seen against the background of the dramatically changing world, their attitudes to such vital issues as religion, the child, the 'woman question', love and sexuality, the self and death are

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century - Beverly Gage

When he became director of the FBI in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was a dazzling wunderkind buzzing with big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the

Making Sense of Anti-Trade Sentiment: International Trade and the American Worker (White R.)(Pevná vazba)

Examining the extent to which trade adversely affects domestic workers, Making Sense of Anti-Trade Sentiment documents statistical relationships between exports and imports and domestic

Handbags: The Making of a Museum (Wilcox Claire)(Pevná vazba)

An exploration of the role of the handbag in the history of culture, fashion, and material production The history of the handbag--its design, how it has been made, used, and worn--reveals something essential about women's lives over the past 500 years. Perhaps the most universal item of

Book of Wag (Sidey Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Meet the richly eccentric Burton family: reigned over by the steadfast matriarch Harriet and surrounded by an equally peculiar cast of characters, their exploits are narrated in alternating voices by Wag, a World War I veteran, and his nephew

Honor Bound: An American Story of Dreams and Service (McGrath Amy)(Pevná vazba)

The inspiring story of the first female Marine to fly a combat mission in an F/A-18; and the transformative events that led to her bold decision to take on the most powerful man in the U.S. Senate. Amy McGrath grew up in Edgewood, Kentucky, a childhood shaped by love of country, baseball (the