American History
The stories of America unfold through pivotal moments, legendary figures, and the complex forces that shaped a nation - from Revolutionary spies and Civil War commanders to modern presidents and cultural transformations. These compelling accounts illuminate the triumphs, struggles, and decisions that echo through time, revealing how determined individuals and powerful ideas have steered the American experiment.
American History Book Summaries
Wyatt Earp
The Life Behind the Legend
History
Biography
Westerns
Inside the Apple
A Streetwise History of New York City
History
New York
Travel
Un-Trumping America
A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
Politics
History
American
Black Flags, Blue Waters
The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
History
Pirates
American History
Amexica
War Along the Borderline
History
Crime
Politics
Freak Kingdom
Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
Biography
History
Politics
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies
The Real West
History
Westerns
Biography
The Lost Art of Dress
The Women Who Once Made America Stylish
History
Fashion
Sewing
Butler
The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland
Politics
History
American History
Walt Whitman
A Life
Biography
Poetry
History
The Big Change
America Transforms Itself, 1900-50
History
American History
Economics
The Age of Entitlement
America Since the Sixties
History
Politics
Cultural
Essays on the Great Depression
Economics
History
Finance
The Man Who Ran Washington
The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
Biography
Politics
History
The JFK Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why It Failed
History
Politics
Biography
Fire in the Lake
The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
History
War
Asia
The Spymasters
How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future
History
Politics
Espionage
George Washington
Biography
History
Presidents
The Mammoth Book of the West
The Making of the American West
History
Westerns
American History
Attack and Die
Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage
Civil War
History
American Civil War
Empire of Debt
The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis
Economics
Finance
Politics
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33
History
Biography
American History
Zero Fail
The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
History
Politics
American History
The Ones We've Been Waiting for
How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
Politics
History
Leadership
The Long Slide
Thirty Years in American Journalism
Politics
History
Biography
The Lies of the Land
Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t
History
Urbanism
Politics
Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
History
Biography
Politics
Lucky
How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency
Politics
History
American History
The Case for Trump
Politics
History
Biography
Decline and Fall
The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America
Politics
History
Economics
Black Mass
True Crime
History
Crime
Mark Twain
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
Bill O'Reilly's Legends & Lies
The Patriots
History
Historical
American History
Smuggler Nation
How Illicit Trade Made America
History
American History
Economics
Cobra II
The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
History
Military Fiction
Military History
September 11
An Oral History
History
American History
Terrorism
Blackbeard
The Birth of America
History
Pirates
Amazon
The Fall of the House of Bush
The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future
Politics
History
American History
The Wrath of Cochise
The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
History
American History
Biography
A Great Place To Have A War
America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
History
War
Politics
The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed
History
Politics
Biography
Blood on the Moon
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
History
Civil War
American History
Whatever Happened to the Metric System?
How America Kept Its Feet
History
Science
Mathematics
Shot All to Hell
Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape
History
True Crime
American History
The Black History of the White House
History
American History
Politics
My Fellow Soldiers
General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
History
Biography
War
The Klondike Fever
The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush
History
Canada
American History
Lily Dale
The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead
History
Paranormal
Spiritualism
Bobby Kennedy
The Making of a Liberal Icon
Biography
History
Politics
American Brutus
John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
History
Civil War
Biography
