Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans
5 best books like Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans (Malcolm Gaskill): The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World, Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century, In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown, Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Author | Stephen Brusatte |
ISBN | 0062490451 |
Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today,...
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
Author | David McCullough |
ISBN | 0671447548 |
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. Now with...
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Author | Charles King |
ISBN | 0385542194 |
A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s--a sweeping chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures...
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
ISBN | 0525426760 |
The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition.
Here is the story of the remarkable year leading up to the siege of Yorktown. It sets Washington against his traitorous nemesis Benedict Arnold and...
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
Author | Dan Abrams |
ISBN | 1335016449 |
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Mental Floss Book to Read in Summer 2019
"Gripping.... Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense is a must-read." --NPR
A President on Trial. A Reputation at Stake.
ABC News legal correspondent and host of LIVE PD Dan Abrams reveals the story...