Søkt på: Bøker av Fergus M. Bordewich
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My Mother's Ghost: A Courageous Woman, a Son's Love, and the Power of Memory
The story of a brilliant woman cut down in her prime and of a haunted man who confronted the source of his pain, uncovered startling truths, and reclaimed his own life along with …
Washington
Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.--a place once described as a mere swamp "producing nothing except …
Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America
Congress at War
The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the conflict.This brilliantly argued new …
Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America's Future
The spectacular story of the Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876--held in the shadow of a highly contested presidential election that triggered the collapse of Reconstruction and …
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil--when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal …
Killing the White Man's Indian
In the face of a new lightly romanticized view of Native Americans, Killing the White Man's Indian bravely confronts the current myths and often contradictory realities of tribal …
Bound for Canaan
"e;Well written, moving . . . stimulating,"e; this account of racially unified abolitionism "e;could provide the occasion for a constructive national …
Congress and the People's Contest
The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the …
Washington
Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.-a place once described as a mere swamp "e;producing nothing …
