Overview :The art of power consists of getting what one wants. That is never more challenging than when a nation is at war. Britain fought a nearly no... Read More
Overview :Although Abraham Lincoln was among seven presidents who served during the tumultuous years between the end of the Mexican War and the end of... Read More
Overview :As William Nester asserts in The Age of Jackson, it takes quite a leader to personify an age. A political titan for thirty-three years (1815... Read More
Overview :Recent events in Tianamen Square have made such books abruptly important, though in some aspects outdated. This one examines reforms in high... Read More
Overview :Haunted Victory: The American Crusade to Destroy Saddam and Impose Democracy on Iraq explores the dynamic trajectory of beliefs, actions, an... Read More
Overview : The French and Indian War was the world's first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North A... Read More
Overview :George Rogers Clark (1752-1818) led four victorious campaigns against the Indians and British in the Ohio Valley during the American Revolut... Read More
Overview :Theodore Roosevelt is an American icon, his face carved in granite alongside those of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln on Mt. Rushmore. He... Read More
Overview :Joseph Stalin and the Art of Tyranny examines authoritarian rule, revealing how tyrants sustain power through a mix of comfort, terror, love... Read More
Overview :The Revolutionary Years, 1775-1789, reveals how the nation's leaders asserted power during the fourteen crucial years from the Revolution's ... Read More
Overview :The Civil War fascinates Americans like no other war in their history. Many Americans are still fighting some of the war's issues in an Odys... Read More
Overview :From 1789 to 1800, the Federalist and Republican parties held opposing visions for America's future. Led by Alexander Hamilton, the Federali... Read More
Overview :A small library could be stocked with books written about Napoleon Bonaparte the general, whose battles and campaigns have been studied exte... Read More
Overview :No one in history has provoked more controversy than Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he an enlightened ruler or brutal tyrant? Was he an insatiable ... Read More
Overview :The Jeffersonian Vision, 1801-1815, reveals how the nation's leaders understood and asserted power during those crucial years between Thomas... Read More