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The president's house: a first daughter shares the history and secrets of the world's most famous home
Par Margaret Truman. 2003
The daughter of president Harry Truman describes the history and architectural features of the White House and shares tidbits about…
its former occupants. Includes anecdotes about past commanders in chief and their families, pets, servants, and distinguished guests. 2003The wrong man: the final verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder case
Par James Neff. 2001
Investigative reporter assembles extensive evidence exonerating Cleveland physician Sam Sheppard of murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn, on July 4, 1954.…
Describes botched police and forensic investigations, Sheppard's retrials and eventual acquittal in 1966, and his son's anti-death-penalty activism. Identifies probable actual killer and reconstructs possible murder scenario. Some violence and some strong language. 2001Unchained memories: readings from the slave narratives
Par Henry Louis Gates, Spencer Crew, Cynthia Goodman, Ohio) National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati. 2002
Accounts of former slaves based on interviews conducted in the late 1930s by the U.S. government's Works Progress Administration for…
the Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writers' Project. Companion to 2003 documentary film produced by HBO. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Violence and strong language. 2002John Paul Jones: sailor, hero, father of the American Navy
Par Evan Thomas. 2003
Biography of the "great sea warrior," born in Scotland in 1747, who went to sea at age thirteen. Describes his…
career in the fledgling American Continental Navy, his later exploits in Europe and Russia, and his burial in an obscure Paris grave in 1792. 2003Selon l'auteur, "...Quatre vestiges du puritanisme persistent encore dans le comportement américain contemporain: l'individualisme sauvage, la croyance d'être le peuple…
élu de Dieu, la cruauté institutionnalisée et la tradition de la confession publique."Traces the post-Civil War presidential election, which in America's centenary year pitted Ohio Republican governor Rutherford Hayes against New York…
Democratic governor Samuel Tilden. An electoral commission declared Hayes the winner after disputed southern returns and four months of backroom political intrigue by both parties. 2003The making of America: the history of the United States from 1492 to the present
Par Robert D. Johnston. 2002
Historical overview of the guiding principles that shaped our nation. Highlights political debates, examines social issues, and profiles several people…
who defended their beliefs. Includes the text of a few major historical documents. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2002General Ike: a personal reminiscence
Par John S. D. Eisenhower. 2003
The son of General Dwight D. Eisenhower draws on his own observations and research as a military historian to describe…
his father's relationships with World War II associates. Essays portray Ike's interactions with George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall, Charles de Gaulle, and Winston Churchill, among others. Some strong language. 2003America's splendid little wars: a short history of U.S. military engagements: 1975-2000
Par Peter A. Huchthausen. 2003
Retired naval officer and author of K-19: The Widowmaker (DB 55090) traces America's post-Vietnam armed conflicts from the 1975 rescue…
of the hijacked SS Mayaguez in the Gulf of Siam through the 1990s interventions in the Balkans. Includes U.S. failures in Lebanon, Iran, and Somalia and victories in Desert Storm, Grenada, and Panama. 2003Leadership
Par Rudolph W Giuliani. 2003
Maire de New York de 1993 à 2001, l'auteur résume son expérience à la tête de cette ville et en…
tire des leçons de gestion. Une partie importante du volume est consacrée à la gestion de la crise suscitée par les événements du 11 septembre 2001La malédiction des Kennedy
Par Edward Klein. 2003
Ancien rédacteur en chef du New York Times Magazine et ami personnel de Jackie Kennedy, Klein présente ici une biographie…
de cette famille en empruntant clairement l'hypothèse de la malédiction. En s'appuyant sur les dernières découvertes de la psychologie et de l'analyse génétique, il brosse des portraits minutieux de ses différents membres depuis le 19e siècle jusqu'à nos joursDes amis bien placés: de Roosevelt à aujourd'hui
Par John Galbraith. 2000
Cet économiste canadien ayant fait carrière aux Etats-Unis comme conseiller auprès des présidents démocrates de la Maison Blanche raconte les…
relations qu'il a eues avec les présidents Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy et Johnson, ainsi qu'avec les premières dames Jackie Kennedy et Eleanor Roosevelt. Un livre bourré d'anecdotes pour en apprendre sur les coulisses du pouvoir américain. [SDMNixon, le président maudit (Énigmes & polémiques)
Par Catherine Durandin. 2001
"[...] Nixon, c'est l'interminable guerre du Vietnam et le scandale du Watergate. Mais c'est aussi un grand stratège et un…
redoutable diplomate qui, en pleine guerre froide, négocie avec Moscou et reconnaît la Chine... Ce livre rompt avec les mythologies : Nixon est placé dans une Amérique où il a été un acteur politique d'importance dès 1946, jusqu'à sa mort en 1994. Le Président maudit, poussé à la démission en août 1974, est un redoutable joueur, un cynique malheureux, un pragmatique bourré de principes. Torturé, arrogant, inquiet, le personnage qui a été extrêmement populaire, puis haï, fascine : son parcours éclaire l'Amérique de la guerre froide, l'histoire des Républicains, le fonctionnement inflexible des institutions américaines. Ce livre restitue sa vraie place à Nixon, une place que son conseiller Kissinger, qui lui a survécu, a tendance à supplanter." -- 4e de couv"Ron Suskind, célèbre journaliste américain lauréat du prix Pulitzer, raconte dans un récit stupéfiant le combat que mènent les États-Unis…
depuis le 11 septembre 2001 contre le terrorisme islamiste. L'enjeu? Rien moins que tuer ou être tué. [...] Ron Suskind démontre, à partir des conversations échangées dans le Bureau Ovale entre Bush, Cheney et Rumsfeld, comment les principaux acteurs de cette guerre se sont lancés dans la croisade la plus surprenante des temps modernes. Comment Condoleezza Rice et George Tenet, ministre de la Défense et ancien patron de la CIA, ont improvisé des plans de bataille destinés à anéantir une nouvelle espèce d'ennemis et engagé une course heure par heure contre un désastre prétendument annoncé. Les rivalités et les luttes intestines entre ces deux équipes permettent de comprendre la manière dont l'Amérique réagit face à la terreur. Avec cet ouvrage, immense best-seller aux États-Unis, Ron Suskind répond aux nombreuses questions qui empêchent les Américains de dormir, et éclaire d'un jour nouveau le cauchemar qu'ils sont en train de vivre." -- 4e de couvFrançoise Giroud: une ambition française (Azimuts)
Par Christine Ockrent. 2003
Un portrait vif et sans complaisance de la grande dame du journalisme français qui s'est successivement illustrée comme rédactrice en…
chef à Elle et à L'Express avant de publier un certain nombre de livres à succès. Certaines révélations sur la vie privée de Françoise Giroud, ont valu à ce livre une réputation légèrement sulfureuseLa raison assiégée
Par Al Gore. 2008
"Après le succès international du film (et du livre) Une vérité qui dérange, Al Gore propose, dans ce nouvel opus,…
paru en mai 2007 aux États-Unis, un diagnostic des dysfonctionnements de la démocratie américaine et avance des idées pour y remédier. Il s'agit d'une réflexion méthodique sur la façon dont la démocratie participative, telle que les pères fondateurs de l'Amérique lavaient envisagée, a failli. Comment le débat d'idées américain s'est transformé peu à peu en un réseau de télé-achat, un paradis pour colporteurs vendant le mirage de la participation à un public ayant perdu toute capacité à s'engager [...]". -- 4e de couvThe last outlaws: The desperate final days of the dalton gang
Par Tom Clavin. 2023
The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multiple New York…
Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one of the greatest outlaw gang. The dreaded Dalton Gang consisted of three brothers and their rotating cast of colorful accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James brothers. They soon became legends themselves, beginning their career as common horse thieves before graduating to robbing banks and trains. On October 5, 1892, the Dalton Gang attempted their boldest and bloodiest raid yet: robbing two banks in broad daylight in Coffeyville, Kansas, simultaneously. As Grat, Bob, and Emmett Dalton and Bill Power and Dick Broadwell crossed the plaza to enter the two buildings, the outlaws were recognized by townspeople, who raised the alarm. Citizens armed themselves with shotguns and six-shooters from nearby hardware stores and were locked and loaded when the thieves emerged from the banks. The ensuing gun battle was a lead-filled firefight of epic proportions. As the smoke cleared, eight men lay dead––including four of the five members of the doomed Dalton Gang. For the first time ever, the full story of the Dalton Gang's life of crime, culminating in one of the Wild West's most violent events, are chronicled in detail––a last gruesome gasp of the age of gunfights. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's PressJumpman: The making and meaning of michael jordan
Par Johnny Smith. 2023
How Michael Jordan's path to greatness was shaped by race, politics, and the consequences of fame To become the most…
revered basketball player in America, it wasn't enough for Michael Jordan to merely excel on the court. He also had to become something he never intended: a hero. Reconstructing the defining moment of Jordan's career—winning his first NBA championship during the 1990-1991 season—sports historian Johnny Smith examines Jordan's ubiquitous rise in American culture and the burden he carried as a national symbol of racial progress. Jumpman reveals how Jordan maintained a "mystique" that allowed him to seem more likable to Americans who wanted to believe race no longer mattered. In the process of achieving greatness, he remade himself into a paradox: universally known, yet distant and unknowable. Blending dramatic game action with grand evocations of the social forces sweeping the early nineties, Jumpman demonstrates how the man and the myth together created the legend we remember todayUfo: The inside story of the us government's search for alien life-and out there
Par Garrett Graff. 2023
From Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author of Raven Rock , The Only Plane in the Sky ,…
and Pulitzer Prize finalist for history Watergate , comes the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of our government's decades-long quest to solve one of humanity's greatest mysteries: Are we alone in the universe? For as long as we have looked to the skies, the question of whether life on Earth is the only life to exist has been at the core of the human experience, driving scientific debate and discovery, shaping spiritual belief, and prompting existential thought across borders and generations. And yet, the idea of extraterrestrial intelligence has been largely seen as a joke, banished to the realm of fantasy and conspiracy. Now, for the first time, the full story of our national obsession with UFOs—and the covert, decades-long search by scientists, the United States military, and the CIA for proof of alien life—is told by bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Garrett M. Graff in a deeply reported and researched history. It begins in 1947, when two headline-making sightings of strange flying objects—the first near Mount Rainier, Washington, involving a pilot named Kenneth Arnold, and the second a ranch on the outskirts of a New Mexico town called Roswell—prompt the US Air Force's newly formed Department of Defense to create a series of secret programs to determine how unidentified phenomena may pose a threat to national security. Over the next half-century, as the atomic age gives way to the space race and the Cold War, the search continues, bringing together an unexpected group of astronomers, military officials, civilian contactees, and true believers who bring us closer, then further, then closer again, to answering one of our most enduring questions: What exactly is out there? Drawing from original archival research, declassified documents, and interviews with senior intelligence and military officials, Graff brings every moment of this extraordinary quest to life, transporting readers from secret military meetings and congressional hearings, where the validity of the search is debated, to the cluttered offices of UFOlogists and hoaxers determined to see the truth revealed, remote observatories where astronomers monitor the stars, and even the halls of the White House, where staffers and presidents alike eagerly await answers. Filled with twists and turns, and populated by an unforgettable cast of characters, UFO is a thrilling story of science, national security, the secrets of space, and the enduring mysteries of the universe"Absolutely gripping… a perfectly splendid read—I highly, highly recommend it" — Douglas Preston, author of the #1 New York Times…
bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get–and sell–the story. In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world’s attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole, sparking a vicious feud that was unprecedented in international scientific and geographic circles. At the same time, the rivalry between two powerful New York City newspapers—the storied Herald and the ascendant Times —fanned the flames of the so-called polar controversy, as each paper financially and reputationally committed itself to an opposing explorer and fought desperately to defend him. The Herald was owned and edited by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., an eccentric playboy whose nose for news was matched only by his appetite for debauchery and champagne. The Times was published by Adolph Ochs, son of Jewish immigrants, who’d improbably rescued the paper from extinction and turned it into an emerging powerhouse. The battle between Cook and Peary would have enormous consequences for both newspapers, and help to determine the future of corporate media. BATTLE OF INK AND ICE presents a frank portrayal of Arctic explorers, brave men who both inspired and deceived the public. It also sketches a vivid portrait of the newspapers that funded, promoted, narrated, and often distorted their exploits. It recounts a sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news, one that culminates with an unjustly overlooked chapter in the origin story of the modern New York Times. By turns tragic and absurd, BATTLE OF INK AND ICE brims with contemporary relevance, touching as it does on themes of class, celebrity, the ever-quickening news cycle, and the benefits and pitfalls of an increasingly interconnected world. Above all, perhaps, its cast of characters testifies—colorfully and compellingly—to the ongoing role of personality and publicity in American cultural life as the Gilded Age gave way to the twentieth century—the American century