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A New York Times bestseller - A 2025 Kirkus Prize finalist in Nonfiction - Shortlisted for the 2025 Cundill History Prize "An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel...

A hilarious and satirically accurate introduction to the United States immigration system from comedian and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Felipe Torres Medina "A funny, empathetic, and formally inventive guide to the U.S. immigration system." (Kirkus) / "A funny book about...

Author: Charles a Stakely IVPublisher: AuthorhousePublished: 04/08/2025Pages: 236Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9798823024310

America, Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat While this book is by no means famous, it is a remarkable chance to look at America of 1914 through the eyes of an outsider. Wu Tingfang shows evidence of having thought through many issues of...

America, Volume 1 (of 6)iii The American is naturally proud of his country, its substantial growth and wonderful development, and of the rapid strides it is making among the foremost nations of the world. No matter how far elsewhere the American citizen may have...

America, Volume 2 (of 6)The Old PikeThe National RoadEarly Routes Across the MountainsOld Lancaster RoadColumbia RailroadThe Pennsylvania RouteHaverford CollegeVilla NovaBryn Mawr CollegePaoliGeneral WayneThe Chester ValleyPequea ValleyThe ConestogasLancasterFranklin and Marshall CollegeJames BuchananThaddeus StevensConewago HillsSusquehanna RiverColumbiaThe Underground RailroadMiddletownLochielSimon CameronThe Clan CameronHarrisburgCharles Dickens and the Camel's Back...

America, Volume 3 (of 6) Hendrick HudsonThe Ship "Half Moon"Manhattan IslandNew AmsterdamHudson RiverFire IslandNavesink HighlandsSandy HookLiberty StatueGovernor's IslandJersey CityHobokenWeehawkenThe KillsPerth AmboyStaten IslandNew DorpCommodore VanderbiltHackensack RiverPassaic RiverPatersonNewarkElizabethRahwayRaritan RiverNew BrunswickBattle of MonmouthMolly PitcherGreater New YorkBattery ParkBowling GreenBroadwayTrinity ChurchFamous and Sky-Scraping BuildingsWall StreetNational City BankSt. Paul's ChurchCity...

America, Volume 4 (of 6)The Title Page and Table of Contents for this book refer to it as Volume IV. The page and chapter numbering is consistent with this being the second half of the previous volume (whose title page says it is Volume...

America, Volume 5 (of 6)The Title Page and Table of Contents for this book refer to it as Volume V. The page and chapter numbering are consistent with this being the first half of Volume III. Early ExplorationsJohn CabotBartholomew GosnoldThe Old ColonyThe MayflowerPlymouthPlymouth RockDuxburySamosetGovernor...

America, Volume 6 (of 6)This book was printed in a 6-volume set and a 3-volume set. Although this e-book was from the 6-volume set, the title page refers to "Vol. III." The index references are to the 3-volume set. The index contains links to...

A single-volume edition of William J. Bennett's bestselling series, thoroughly revised and updated."The role of history is to inform, inspire, and sometimes provoke us, which is why Bill Bennett's wonderfully readable book is so important." --Walter IsaacsonA decade ago, William J. Bennett published a...

America: A historyPresenting in a handy form a history of the great events and movements of the present century, in our own country, throughout the British Empire, on the Continent of Europe, and in America. THE SCOTSMAN.The central idea of the work and the...

America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the Nevv VVorld - Containing the Original of the Inhabitants, and the Remarkable Voyages Thither. The Conquest of the Vast Empires of Mexico and Peru, and Other Large Provinces and Territories, with the Several European...

Chris Hedges's profound and unsettling examination of America in crisis is "an exceedingly...provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard" (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and...

Respected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the third volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume III). This engaging narrative slices through the cobwebs of time, memory, and prevailing cynicism to reinvigorate America with an informed patriotism.America began to breathe...

Torrential and dreamlike, Mauro Javier Cáaacute;rdenas' novel unfurls into a layered, poignant, and unflinching portrait of how family separations have impacted the minds of Latin American deportees in a technology-bound 21st century.American Abductions opens in a near-future United States whose omnipresence of data-harvesting and...

American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of BiologyWe live in and form part of a system of things of immense diversity and perplexity, which we call Nature; and it is a matter of the deepest interest to all of us that we...

American Adventures: A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'Though much has been written of the South, it seems to me that this part of our country is less understood than any other part. Certainly the South, itself, feels that this is true. Its relationship to...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY A "lively, fast-paced history" (Adam Hochschild, bestselling author of American Midnight) of America's anarchist movement and the government's tireless efforts to destroy it In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a...

Animals inhabit the edges of the stories in American Animism, the astonishing debut collection from Jamey Gallagher. Veering between realism and magical realism, each story illuminates something necessary, something true. A girl working in a cryptid museum, a boy in the attic of a...