Completed Shelf: Recently Added
donpowe
Recent Activity
Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in Boston in 1887, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep. When he wakes up in the year 2000, America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a...
Based on the explosive article Lofgren wrote when he resigned in disgust after the debt ceiling crisis, "The Party Is Over" is a funny and impassioned exposé of everything that is wrong with Washington.
A history of the radical transformation of the American South during the Civil War examines the economic, social, and political deconstruction and rebuilding of Southern institutions as experienced by ordinary people.
Presents a collection of the best unpublished interviews from the past twenty-five years of C-SPAN's "Booknotes" and "Q and A," including discussions with David McCullough, Ron Chernow, April Witt, and John Burns.