The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution
8 best books like The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution (Brion T. McClanahan): Capitalism and Freedom, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters, Battle Cry of Freedom, A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, James Madison and the Making of America, The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II, Discrimination and Disparities
Author | Milton Friedman |
ISBN | 0226264211 |
Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war"
How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his...
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
Author | Dick Winters |
ISBN | 0425208133 |
They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy.
Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe—an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Dick Winters was their commander—"the best combat leader in World War II" to his men....
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.
James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and...
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Author | Larry Schweikart |
ISBN | 1595230327 |
For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements...
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Author | Miklós Nyiszli |
ISBN | 1559702028 |
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known...
James Madison and the Making of America
Author | Kevin R.C. Gutzman |
ISBN | 0312625006 |
In James Madison and the Making of America, historian Kevin Gutzman looks beyond the way James Madison is traditionally seen -- as "The Father of the Constitution; -- to find a more complex and sometimes contradictory portrait of this influential Founding Father and the ways in which he influenced...
The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
Author | Alex Kershaw |
ISBN | 0451490053 |
The New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat.
"Meet the assaulters: Pathfinders plunging from the black, coxswains plowing the whitecaps, bareknuckle Rangers scaling sheer rock......
Discrimination and Disparities
An empirical examination of how economic and other disparities arise
Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are victims of...