American History from Casa Pacifica

Millions have sat under the "Big Top" watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivatiing stories behind the men whose creativity, ingenuity, and determination created one of our country's most beloved pastimes. In Battle for the Big Top, New York Times-bestselling author Les Standiford brings to life a remarkable era when three circus kings-James Bailey,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Just months after being elected President of the United States, John F. Kennedy made an astonishing announcement to the nation: we would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this engrossing epic of contemporary history, Douglas Brinkley returns to the 1960s to re-create one of humankind's most exciting and ambitious achievements. American Moonshot brings… Saber más sobre este artículo

Brothers at Arms brings to light the remarkable untold story of how the American Revolution's success depended on substantial military assistance provided by France and Spain, and places the Revolution in the context of the global strategic interests of those nationsin their fight against England.

Count Moise de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his bestselling memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes. Like the Ephrussi, the Camondos were part of belle epoque high society. They were also targets of anti-semitism. Camondo created a spectacular house and filled it with the greatest private collection of French… Saber más sobre este artículo

In a quiet English village in 1942 an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, the woman known to her neighbours as Mrs. Burton seemed to epitomize rural British domesticity. However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, she was racing through the Oxfordshire countryside to… Saber más sobre este artículo

On November 22, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother had been shot. JFK would not survive. In The Revolution of Robert Kennedy, journalis John R. Bohrer focuses in intimate and revealing detail on Bobby Kennedy's life during the three years followng JFK's assassination. Torn between mourning the past and plotting… Saber más sobre este artículo

The embodiment of American conservative thought and jurisprudence, Antonin Scalia cast an expansive shadow over the Supreme Court for three decades. His death at a Texas hunting resort in February 2016 created a dilemma for Republican leadership faced with the prospect of yet another Obama Supreme Court nominee, this time one who could tip the ideological blance of the court… Saber más sobre este artículo

Bill White and the young men of McMinn County answered their nation's call after Pearl Harbor. They won the freedom of the world and returned to find that they had lost it at home. A corrupt political machine was in charge, protected by violent deputies, funded by racketeering, and kept in place by stolen elections- the worst allegations of voter… Saber más sobre este artículo

Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why? While populist rulers certainly… Saber más sobre este artículo

No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as "Super K", the "indispensable man" whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists scouring his every "telcon" for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial two-volume biography, drawing… Saber más sobre este artículo

Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford University on a football scholarship, accepted a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, then studied at Yale Law School. Graduating from Yale, his options were limitless. He chose public service. He chose to move to a rough neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, where he worked as a tenants' rights lawyer before… Saber más sobre este artículo

We have been here before. In this timely and revealing book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning. # 1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. With clarity and purpose Meacham explores contentious periods and how presidents… Saber más sobre este artículo

In 1864, during the bloodiest days of the Civil War, two newspapers published a call, allegedly authored by President Lincoln, for the immediate conscription of 400,000 more Union soldiers. New York streets erupted in pandemonium. Wall Street markets went wild. When Lincoln sent troops to seize the newspaper presses and arrest the editiors, it became clear: the proclamation was a… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Road to Camelot tells the story of a young and undistinguished junior senator who plotted his way to the presidency and changed the way we nominate and elect presidents. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned over the accepted wisdom that his Catholicism was a barrier to winning an election and plotted a successful course… Saber más sobre este artículo

Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012, she had become one of the country's leading progreseive voices. Now, at a perilous moment for our nation, she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how we built the… Saber más sobre este artículo

As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementay school teacher, an ambitious goal, given her family's modest means. Early marriage and motherhood seemed to put even that dream out of reach, but fifteen years later she was a distinguisheed law professor with a deep understanding of why people go bankrupt.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Bobby Kennedy was a personal hero to a multitude of Americans. As the train carrying his body headed to Washington, whites and blacks alike stood along the tracks, saluting him. They loved him as a fellow patriot who believed a great country could also be a good one. Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC'S Hardball, has discovered what made him… Saber más sobre este artículo

Separate spans a striking range of characters and landscapes, bound together by the defining issue of their time and ours-race and equality. Wending its way throught a half-century of American history, the narrative begins at the dawn of the railroad age, in the North, home to the nation's first separate railroad car, then moves briskly through slavery and the Civil… Saber más sobre este artículo

Leonardo Da Vinci is a book by Walter Isaacson that narrates the life, accomplishments and struggles of the Italian painter, Engineer & Scientist. It describes how Leonardo Da Vincis delight at combining diverse passions remains the main recipe for creativity. He also highlights Leonardo's ease at being a bit of a misfit. Illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left handed, easily distracted, and… Saber más sobre este artículo

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