Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
September 2016 - October 2016
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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By Taylor, Colin F. Publishing Date: 1997, c1994 Classification: 900 Call Number: 970 TAY |
By Thompson, Wayne C. Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: 900 Call Number: 971 THO |
The brilliant disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's doomed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs By Rasenberger, Jim Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: 900 Call Number: 972.9106 RAS A recounting of the Bay of Pigs Crisis drawing upon the author's father's connection to the events as they played out. |
By Keithly, David M. Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: 900 Call Number: 973 KEI |
New lands, new men: America and the second great age of discovery By Goetzmann, William H. Publishing Date: [1986] Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.1 GOE With this volume Goetzmann completes the study on science and the exploration of the American West that he began with Exploration and Empire (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize) and continued in Army Exploration in the American West . Here he examines scientific development on an international scale, relating advances in Europe to the American scene, and showing how the explorations of Europeans facilitated the development of the American West and the work of American scientists, explorers, and artists. The scope is vast, spanning the 17th through 19th centuries in Europe and America. Frances Groen, McGill Univ. Lib., Montreal McPhee, John. Rising from the Plains. Copyright 1986 Cahners Business Information. |
By Fast, Howard Publishing Date: c1999 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.332 FAS Recounts the events surrounding Washington's crossing of the Delaware and the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War - (Baker & Taylor) |
Nathan Hale: the life and death of America's first spy By Phelps, M. William Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.385 PHE "Few Americans know much more about Nathan Hale than his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." But who was the real Nathan Hale?" "In this well-researched biography, M. Williams Phelps separates historical fact from long-standing myth to reveal the life of Nathan Hale, a young man who deserves to be remembered as an original American patroit."--BOOK JACKET. |
By Schlesinger, Arthur Meier Publishing Date: 1971 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.5 SCH This volume by the great American historian Arthur M. Schlesinger embraces the Age of Andrew Jackson from its inception to its influence upon the history of our country. It captures the historical, cultural, economic and political life of the United States as it grew from Jefferson's day to the violent early eruptions of financial and industrial forces that threatened the basic principles of our constitutional democracy. -- from http://www.amazon.com (Sep. 6, 2011). |
Our Lincoln: new perspectives on Lincoln and his world Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.7092 In 1876 the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed, "No man can say anything that is new of Abraham Lincoln." Undeterred, the contributors to Our Lincoln believe it is possible even now, especially if the starting point is the interaction between the life and the times. Several of these original essays focus on Lincoln's leadership as president and commander in chief. James M. McPherson examines Lincoln's deft navigation of the crosscurrents of politics and wartime strategy. Sean Wilentz assesses Lincoln's evolving position in the context of party politics. On slavery and race, Eric Foner writes of Lincoln and the movement to colonize emancipated slaves outside the United States. James Oakes considers Lincoln's views on race and citizenship. There are also brilliant essays on Lincoln's literary style, religious beliefs, and family life. The Lincoln who emerges is a man of his time, yet able to transcend and transform it́a reasonable measure of greatness. |
Founders' son: a life of Abraham Lincoln By Brookhiser, Richard Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.7092 BRO Argues that the sixteenth president of the United States was inspired by the Founding Fathers of the nation and struggled to carry on their work throughout his career. |
Lincoln's body: a cultural history By Fox, Richard Wightman Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.7092 FOX Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us.The very roughness of Lincoln's appearance made him seem all the more common, one of us--as did his sense of humor about his own awkward physical nature. |
Tried by war: Abraham Lincoln as commander in chief By McPherson, James M. Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.7092 MCP Evaluates Lincoln's talents as a commander in chief in spite of limited military experience, tracing the ways in which he worked with, or against, his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and reshape the presidential role. |
The presidents club: inside the world's most exclusive fraternity By Gibbs, Nancy Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.92 GIB Examines presidential power within the context of U.S. history and the ongoing relationships presidents and ex-presidents formed with one another. |
Going home to glory: a memoir of life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969 By Eisenhower, David Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.921 EIS David Eisenhower delivers a warm, personal recollection of the retirement years of his grandfather, Dwight D. Eisenhower, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where they lived. |
Abuse of power: the new Nixon tapes Publishing Date: c1997 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.924 Richard Nixon said he wanted his administration to be "the best chronicled in history." But when Alexander Butterfield disclosed the existence of a voice-activated taping system to a Senate committee in July 1973, Nixon's White House and its recordings quickly became the most infamous in American history. The tapes dominated the final two years of Nixon's presidency, and almost single-handedly forced his resignation. |
Grand obsession: Harvey Butchart and the exploration of Grand Canyon By Butler, Elias Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: 900 Call Number: 979.132 BUT "Among his Grand Canyon disciples, Harvey achieved legendary status long before his death due to natural causes in May 2002. Ever since the 1950s, his name had been synonymous with mastery of the wild and Byzantine Grand Canyon back country. Here was someone who routinely stood at the rim of this mile-deep gorge and decided to find his own way to the bottom .... his greatest legacy was what he created for others -- 1079 typewritten pages in which he carefully recorded his treks -- a massive document that represents the fruits of nearly three year's worth of days spent indefatigably striding through the Canyon's unknown regions. Typed in a dense, meticulous voice, each page of Harvey's logbooks reveals a sharpened mind capable of photographically memorizing the minutiae of each side canyon, every turn in the Canyon's great form, each route he had found through its cliffs. Eventually Harvey's inveterate chronicling would become the basics for the first ever Grand Canyon back country guidebooks: Grand Canyon treks (1970), Grand Canyon treks II (1975) and Grand Canyon Treks III (1984)" -- Prologue. |
By Turner, Blair Pierce Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 900 Call Number: 980 TUR |
Conquer or die: Wellington's veterans and the liberation of the New World By Hughes, Ben Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: 980.02 HUG In 1815, just after the battle of Waterloo, over 6,000 British volunteers sailed across the Atlantic to aid Simon Bolivar in his liberation of Gran Columbia from her Spanish oppressors. The expeditions were plagued with disaster from the start, when one ship sank shortly after leaving Portsmouth with the loss of almost 200 lives. Those who reached the New World faced disease, wild animals, mutiny and desertion. Conditions on campaign were appalling, massacres were commonplace, rations crude, pay infrequent and supplies insufficient. Nevertheless, those who endured made key contributions to Bolivar's success. This book tells the fast-paced and entertaining story of the British volunteers from the raising of the regiments in Britain to the perils of campaigning to their defiant stand at the battle of Carabobo. Drawing on the volunteers' memoirs, letters and journals, supported by unpublished documents and newspaper reports, Conquer or Die! is the result of research across two continents. |
By Garcia, Jerry Publishing Date: c1995 Classification: 900 Call Number: B GARCIA, JERRY The cultural icon and rock musician offers a look at his early history on Harrington Street in San Francisco - (Baker & Taylor) |
Steve McQueen: the life and legend of a Hollywood icon By Terrill, Marshall Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: B McQueen Chronicles the life of a great actor--from his humble, small-town upbringing to his rise to become the star of such films as The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven to his courageous battle with cancer and dramatic death in Mexico. - (Baker & Taylor) |
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