Meest populaire boeken in Nederland●Verenigde Staten
Bekijk de nieuwste lijst met boeken die mensen in Nederland op dit moment het leukst vinden. De lijst is gerangschikt op populariteit en het genre van de lijst is Geschiedenis > Verenigde Staten.
1. Directorate S - Steve Coll. The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016
Winner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction 'Spellbinding ... a magisterial account of the great tragedy of our age ... it is a classic' Evening Standard 'In the finest traditions of American investigative journalism' The Times 'Spectacular ... makes Bourne movies pale in comparison' Financial Times From the Pulitzer Prize winning of the acclaimed Ghost Wars , this is the full story of America's grim involvement in the affairs of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2016. In the wak...
Releasedatum: 2018-02-01 € 10,99
2. Fortuna's kinderen - Annejet van der Zijl. Een trans-Atlantische familiekroniek
Een onwaarschijnlijke en ontroerende familiekroniek Zou anno 1875 iemand in San Francisco beseft hebben dat de deftige, schatrijke mevrouw de Fremery ooit geboren was als slavin? En dat ze als kind door haar vader naar Nederland was gesmokkeld omdat ze in haar geboorteland Amerika haar leven niet zeker was? Het nieuwste 'grote' boek van Annejet van der Zijl, met daarin verwerkt haar succesvolle Boekenweekgeschenk Leon & Juliette , is misschien wel haar meest ambitieuze ooit. Dit waargebeurde...
Releasedatum: 2021-09-30 € 4,99
3. 1493 - Charles C. Mann
Hoe de wereld zich ontwikkelde na de ontdekking van Amerika De reizen van Columbus vormden het begin van een bijzondere uitwisseling van flora en fauna tussen Eurazië en Noord- en Zuid-Amerika. Zo vonden onder meer tomaten, aardappelen, maïs, zilver en rubber hun weg naar Eurazië, en omgekeerd zijde, paarden, graan, koffie, appels - en slaven niet te vergeten - naar Noord- en Zuid-Amerika. Een minder welkome uitwisseling was uiteraard die van insecten, bacteriën en virussen. Charles Mann laa...
Releasedatum: 2013-02-20 € 6,99
4. Achtervolgd door de staatsmaffia - Bill Browder. het waargebeurde verhaal van Russische witwaspraktijken, louche moordaanslagen en de lange arm van Poetin
Een waargebeurde financiële thriller waarin een gestolen $230 miljoen, moord op een advocaat en Poetins geheime dienst een hoofdrol spelen. Vervolg op het succesvolle Vijand van de Russische staat. Achtervolgd door de staatsmaffia door Bill Browder is het verslag van een waargebeurd corruptieschandaal, een zinderend internationaal avontuur en aangrijpend pleidooi voor gerechtigdheid ineen. Bill Browders advocaat Sergej Magnitski wordt in een Russische gevangenis in koelen bloede vermoord. Browd...
Releasedatum: 2022-05-04 € 7,99
5. New York, de gedroomde stad - Erik Mouthaan
'Een heel vermakelijk boek en ook heel persoonlijk.' Eva Jinek 'Je leert de stad echt kennen'. Kunststof Als jongen droomde hij al van New York. Sinds 2006 woont hij er als correspondent voor RTL Nieuws . Erik Mouthaan is een echte New Yorker geworden. In zijn boek gaat hij op zoek naar wat die 'greatest city on earth' zo uniek en verleidelijk maakt. Heel veel onderwerpen passeren de revue: de overweldigende skyline, de verslavende energie van de stad, de enorme woonlasten, de hypes, de gentrifi...
Releasedatum: 2022-04-19 € 9,99
6. One Summer - Bill Bryson. America 1927
In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth. It was the summer that saw the birth of talking pictures, the invention of television, the peak of Al Capone’s reign of terror, the horrifying bombing of a school in Michigan, the thrillingly improbable return to gr...
Releasedatum: 2013-09-26 € 9,49
7. Twelve Years a Slave (Illustrated) - Solomon Northup. Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853
Twelve Years a Slave , sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, ...
Releasedatum: 2014-03-16 € 0,99
8. These Truths: A History of the United States - Jill Lepore
“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, ...
Releasedatum: 2018-09-18 € 7,99
9. Nieuw Amsterdam - Russell Shorto. De oorsprong van New York
In Nieuw Amsterdam toont Russell Shorto aan hoe groot de invloed van die jaren ‘Nieuw Amsterdam’ waren voor het huidige New York. Russell Shorto is schrijver en journalist voor The New York Times Magazine. Eerder verscheen van hem in vertaling De botten van Descartes. In 2013 verscheen Amsterdam. Geschiedenis van de meest vrijzinnige stad ter wereld dat lovend werd ontvangen. In de zeventiende eeuw begon de emigratie vanuit Europa naar Amerika. De eerste stop voor veel Europeanen was Manhatt...
Releasedatum: 2017-11-16 € 9,99
10. The making of Donald Trump - David Cay Johnston. de zakenman die president werd
'Het boek is een must-read, goed geschreven, goed geïnformeerd, up to date - ik heb het één in ruk uitgelezen.' Harm Ede Botje, Vrij Nederland **** 'Overtuigend.' - de Volkskrant 'In zijn biografie belicht hij de schaduwkanten van Trumps carrière, de rechtszaken en controverses.' - Trouw 'Het boek tekent Trump als een rasoplichter met dictatoriale neigingen.'- NRC Handelsblad 'The Making of Donald Trump' van David Cay Johnston is een onthullende visie op Trumps leven en werk. Na de hectische...
Releasedatum: 2017-01-12 € 7,99
11. Command and Control - Eric Schlosser
From famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation , comes Command and Control a ground-breaking account of the management of nuclear weapons A groundbreaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? Schlosser reveals that this question has never been...
Releasedatum: 2013-09-17 € 10,99
12. A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
As seen in the award-winning feature film, Lady Bird. A classic since its original landmark publication in 1980, Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is the first scholarly work to tell America's story from the bottom up the point of view. There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged. Historian and social activist Howard Zinn relays history in the words of America's women, factory work...
Releasedatum: 2014-10-23 Genre:Geschiedenis € 3,99
13. Het huis Trump, het Huis Poetin - Craig Unger. Hoe na jarenlange infiltratie een Russische pion president van Amerika werd
Hoe de Russen het Witte Huis in hun macht kregen Dit boek vertelt het verhaal van de grootste inlichtingenoperatie aller tijden. Een operatie die jarenlang door Russische geheimagenten werd voorbereid en leidde tot een schokkend naïeve of doelbewust participerende Russische pion in het Witte Huis, als de machtigste man ter wereld. Journalist Craig Unger confronteert de lezer met het grootste politieke schandaal van onze moderne tijd. Op weergaloze wijze laat hij ons kennismaken met de daadwerke...
Releasedatum: 2018-08-17 € 11,99
14. All the President's Men - Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
50th Anniversary Edition—With a new foreword on what Watergate means today. “The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” ( Time )—from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Final Days. The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behind-the-scenes drama the way it real...
Releasedatum: 2007-11-01 € 15,99
15. The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe at his very best" ( The New York Times Book Review ), The Right Stuff is t he basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series. From "America's nerviest journalist" ( Newsweek )--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. " Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of...
Releasedatum: 2008-03-04 € 10,99
16. The American Civil War - John Keegan
The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. It has captured the imagination of writers, artists and film-makers for decades but the reality of it confuses and divides historians even today. In this magisterial history of the first modern war, the distinguished military historian John Keegan unpicks the geography, leadership and strategic logic of the war and takes us to the heart of the conflict. His captivating work promises...
Releasedatum: 2011-07-31 € 10,99
17. Begrijp jij Amerika nog? - Frans Verhagen
We denken dat we Amerika goed kennen. Geen land is in de wereld meer aanwezig, we horen er dagelijks over in het nieuws. Maar kennen we het wel echt, begrijpen we het ook? Want hoe kon Donald Trump president worden? Waarom houden de Amerikanen zo van wapens? En van geloof? Zijn het hypocriete puriteinen of juist seksmaniakken? Waarom heeft Amerika geen verzorgingsstaat? Of misschien heeft het die juist wel. Maar hoe zit dat dan? Wat is de Amerikaanse droom en bestaat die nog? Hoe kan een land va...
Releasedatum: 2018-01-23 € 9,99
18. The Fourth Turning - William Strauss & Neil Howe. What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the pa...
Releasedatum: 1996-12-27 € 4,49
19. South to America - Imani Perry. A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America ...
Releasedatum: 2022-01-25 € 23,99
20. Diplomacy - Henry Kissinger
A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China. The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy. Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has created the world in which we live, and how America’s approach to foreign affairs has always differe...
Releasedatum: 2011-12-27 € 15,99
21. Lied der Revolutie - Russell Shorto. Geschiedenis van de Amerikaanse vrijheid
In ‘Lied der Revolutie’ toont Russell Shorto op prachtige wijze waarom de vrijheid vandaag de dag nog steeds moet worden bevochten en dat de idealen van de Amerikaanse Revolutie dat waard zijn. Eerder verschenen van Russell Shorto in vertaling ‘Nieuw-Amsterdam’ en ‘De botten van Descartes’. In 2013 verscheen ‘Amsterdam. Geschiedenis van de meest vrijzinnige stad ter wereld’ dat lovend werd ontvangen. In een tijdperk waarin de grondbeginselen van de Verenigde Staten meer dan ooit ...
Releasedatum: 2017-11-16 € 9,99
22. The Day After Roswell - Philip Corso
A breathtaking exposé that reads like a thriller, The Day After Roswell is a stunning depiction of just what happened in Roswell, New Mexico all those years ago and how the effects of this mysterious unidentified aircraft crash are still relevant today. Former member of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council and the Foreign Technology Desk in the United States Army, Colonel Philip J. Corso was assigned to work at a strange crash site in Roswell in 1947. He had no idea that his work ...
Releasedatum: 1999-07-15 € 16,99
23. Ghost Wars - Steve Coll. The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden
The news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution. Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified government files and interviewed senior US officials and foreign spymasters. Here he gives the full inside story of the CIA's covert funding of an Islamic jihad against Soviet forces in Afghanist...
Releasedatum: 2005-03-03 € 11,99
24. The Wright Brothers - David McCullough
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how was it that...
Releasedatum: 2015-05-05 € 15,99
25. De laatste redding - George Packer. Over de wederopstanding van Amerika
National Book Award-winnaar Packer analyseert aftakeling Amerika 'Een bevlogen, leerzaam, maar ook alarmerend boek.' ••••• NRC Hoe konden de Verenigde Staten in een paar decennia tijd van een welvarend en gerespecteerd land transformeren tot een verdeelde natie met uitgeholde instituties, grote ongelijkheid en leiderschap dat wordt bespot? In De laatste redding combineert Packer journalistieke reportage met historische context, autobiografische elementen en politieke analyse. Aan de ha...
Releasedatum: 2021-06-17 € 12,99
26. Kapitalisme zonder remmen - Maarten van Rossem. opkomst en ondergang van het marktfundamentalisme
Opkomst en ondergang van het marktfundalisme De drie decennia na de Tweede Wereldoorlog worden wel de Gouden Jaren genoemd. Er was sprake van een aanhoudende, sterke economische groei en er werd gewerkt aan de opbouw van de moderne verzorgingsstaat. Met de Grote Crisis van de vorige eeuw in het collectieve geheugen, zorgden overheden voor stabiele groei en volledige werkgelegenheid. In de loop van de jaren zeventig stagneerde de groei, nam de inflatie toe en begon de werkloosheid op te lopen. Ec...
Releasedatum: 2017-05-31 € 7,99
27. Founding Fathers - Frans Verhagen. De grondleggers van de Verenigde Staten
'Founding Fathers' van Frans Verhagen biedt een historisch overzicht van deze grondleggers van de Amerikaanse democratie. De Founding Fathers waren de grondleggers van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika. Na het ondertekenen van de Declaration of Independence, de Onafhankelijkheidsverklaring, stelden ze, geïnspireerd door het Europese verlichtingsdenken, de Amerikaanse grondwet op. Daarmee legden ze de stevig gebleken basis voor het land dat anno 2016 nog altijd de belangrijkste westerse democratie...
Releasedatum: 2016-10-10 € 11,99
28. Cold case Kennedy - Flip de Mey. Een nieuw onderzoek naar de moord op JFK
Forensische analyse van de moord op JFK biedt sluitende hypothese voor samenzwering Jurist Flip de Mey analyseerde jarenlang het dossier van de moord op de Amerikaanse president John F. Kennedy. Hij boog zich opnieuw over alle originele documenten van het onderzoek en neemt zowel de verdedigers als de critici van het officiële verhaal op de korrel. Vijftig jaar later komt hij tot een verrassende en baanbrekende theorie. Cold Case Kennedy is het eerste boek dat systematisch alle aspecten van het...
Releasedatum: 2013-06-05 € 11,99
29. Battle Cry of Freedom - James M. McPherson. The Civil War Era
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 military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that ...
Releasedatum: 2003-12-11 € 20,99
30. Masters of the Air - Donald L. Miller. America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
Soon to be a major television event from Apple TV, Masters of the Air is the riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to its knees, brilliantly told by historian and World War II expert Donald Miller. The Masters of the Air miniseries will be the companion to Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bo...
Releasedatum: 2006-10-10 Genre:Geschiedenis € 16,99
31. Dead Center - Ed Kugler. A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War
WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS, EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST. Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there--the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at seventeen, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966. As a new sniper with the 4th Marines, Kugler picked up bush skills while attached to 3d Force Recon Co...
Releasedatum: 1999-05-29 Genre:Geschiedenis € 7,99
32. The Great Influenza - John M. Barry. The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
#1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.” —Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."— Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we co...
Releasedatum: 2004-02-09 € 11,99
33. De lege troon - Ivo H. Daalder & James M. Lindsay. Hoe Amerika afstand doet van zijn rol als wereldleider
'Een levendig en deskundig verslag van de turbulente relatie van de regering-Trump met de rest van de wereld sinds het begin van zijn presidentschap in 2017. ‘ Financial Times ’ President Truman besloot aan het eind van de Tweede Wereldoorlog dat een nieuwe politieke koerswijziging in het Amerikaanse buitenlandbeleid noodzakelijk was. Waar de politiek jarenlang gebaseerd was op dominantie en competitie, zag Amerika nu in dat collectieve veiligheid alleen gegarandeerd kon worden door samenwer...
Releasedatum: 2019-01-18 € 12,99
34. Apollo 8 - Jeffrey Kluger. The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hot...
Releasedatum: 2017-05-16 € 10,99
35. Obama's Wars - Bob Woodward
In Obama’s Wars , Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism. At the core of Obama...
Releasedatum: 2010-09-27 € 15,99
36. Ken Burns's The Civil War Deluxe eBook (Enhanced Edition) - Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns & Ken Burns. An Illustrated History
This enhanced eBook has been optimized for reading on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Combining video and audio from Ken Burns’s beloved film with animated maps and hundreds of images—rare photographs as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps in full color—this deluxe eBook brings the Civil War to life in a new way. The acclaimed, best-selling companion volume to the celebrated PBS series—the highest-rated series in the history of public television—has now been enhanced to create one of t...
Releasedatum: 2011-06-28 € 11,99
37. The Wild West - Frederick Nolan. History, myth & the making of America
On 14 May 1804, one Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark led a thirty-three-man expedition to the new lands of Louisiana. 8,000 miles and two years later, after rafting up the Missouri and crossing the Rocky Mountains, they reached the far side of the world, the Pacific Ocean. Fredrick Nolan explores the first US settlers of the American West, including the remarkable stories of unsung heroes and heroines, the bloody battles between settlers and the native American...
Releasedatum: 2019-11-08 € 0,99
38. Countdown 1945 - Chris Wallace. The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
The #1 national bestselling “riveting” ( The New York Times ), “propulsive” ( Time ) behind-the-scenes account “that reads like a tense thriller” ( The Washington Post ) of the 116 days leading up to the American attack on Hiroshima by veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday , Chris Wallace. April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Tru...
Releasedatum: 2020-06-09 € 15,99
39. The Republic for Which It Stands - Richard White. The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black...
Releasedatum: 2017-08-04 Genre:Geschiedenis € 23,99
40. Shoot for the Moon - James Donovan. The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
Learn why NASA astronaut Mike Collins calls this extraordinary space race story "the best book on Apollo": this inspiring and intimate ode to ingenuity celebrates one of the most daring feats in human history. When the alarm went off forty thousand feet above the moon's surface, both astronauts looked down at the computer to see 1202 flashing on the readout. Neither of them knew what it meant, and time was running out . . . On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans...
Releasedatum: 2019-03-12 € 3,49
41. Samenzwering - Luke Harding. Hoe Rusland Donald Trump aan zijn overwinning hielp
In Samenzwering onthult Luke Harding, onderzoeksjournalist van The Guardian, de ware aard van Trumps relatie met Rusland, die al sinds de jaren 80 bestaat. Harding heeft de hand weten te leggen op exclusieve nieuwe informatie, direct afkomstig uit bronnen binnen de internationale inlichtingengemeenschap. Luke Harding vertelt een verbijsterend verhaal over schimmige vastgoeddeals, een Miss Universeverkiezing, gangsters, witwaspraktijken, computerhacks en (cyber)spionage door het Kremlin. Hij laat...
Releasedatum: 2017-11-16 € 11,99
42. Breaking Rockefeller - Peter B. Doran. The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire
The incredible tale of how ambitious oil rivals Marcus Samuel, Jr., and Henri Deterding joined forces to topple the Standard Oil empire Marcus Samuel, Jr., is an unorthodox Jewish merchant trader. Henri Deterding is a take-no-prisoners oilman. In 1889, John D. Rockefeller is at the peak of his power. Having annihilated all competition and possessing near-total domination of the market, even the U.S. government is wary of challenging the great “anaconda” of Standard Oil. The Standard n...
Releasedatum: 2016-05-24 € 11,99
43. The Billion Dollar Spy - David E. Hoffman. A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War While driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA’s Moscow station heard a knock on his car window. A man on the curb hande...
Releasedatum: 2015-07-07 € 11,99
44. The First Salute - Barbara W. Tuchman. A View of the American Revolution
Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War. In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American Revolution. Barbara W. Tuchman places the Revolution in the context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland, demonstrating how the aid to the American colonies ...
Releasedatum: 1989-09-06 € 1,49
45. Waco - Jeff Guinn. David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter Jeff Guinn, bestselling author of Manson and The Road to Jonestown. For the first time in thirty years, more than a dozen former ATF agents who participated in the initial February 28, 1993, raid speak on the record about the poor decisions of their commanders that led to this deadly confrontation. Re...
Releasedatum: 2023-01-24 € 16,99
46. History of the United States (Vol. 1-7) - Charles A. Beard & Mary R. Beard. From the Colonial Period to World War I (The Great Migration, The American Revolution, Civil War…)
This eBook edition of "History of the United States" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "History of the United States" is a monumental synthesis of American History subsequently produced by Charles A. Beard and his wife, Mary R. Beard. This book covers a period from the beginning of American Colonization to the establishment of The League of Nations. Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948) was one of the most influential Amer...
Releasedatum: 2018-03-21 € 0,99
47. After the Fall - Ben Rhodes. Being American in the World We've Made
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A dystopian odyssey through the dark authoritarian landscape of the modern world' The Times To be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American exceptionalism as granted – a state of nature arrived at after all else had failed. In the span of just thirty years, this assumption would come crashing down. After the fall, we must determine what it means to be American again. In 2017, as Ben Rhodes wa...
Releasedatum: 2021-06-01 € 9,99
48. Station Amerika - Emile Kossen. 11.267 kilometer over het spoor dat het land verbindt
Een journalistiek verslag van een treinreis kriskras door Amerika 'Een prettig boek, vooral dankzij Kossens losse, hier en daar licht-ironische schrijfstijl.' ●●●● NRC Niet met de auto of het vliegtuig, maar per trein doorkruist correspondent Emile Kossen de Verenigde Staten. Het vervoersmiddel dat 150 jaar geleden de twee kusten van Amerika voor het eerst verbond, is nog altijd een plek waar reizigers van verschillende achtergronden urenlang met elkaar doorbrengen. Kossen probeert zo te...
Releasedatum: 2022-05-12 € 14,99
49. The Divider - Peter Baker & Susan Glasser. Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published."— The Washington Post • A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Financial Times "A sumptuous feast of astonishing tales...The more one reads, the more one wishes to read."—NPR.com The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times an...
Releasedatum: 2022-09-20 € 11,99
50. Amerika - Björn Soenens. De droom op drift
Een starterkit voor wie Amerika beter wil begrijpen: interessant naslagwerk, boeiende vertelling én persoonlijke analyse in één Ontevredenheid raast als een tornado over Amerika. Dit is het tijdperk van haat en nijd en de opkomst van Donald Trump. Waarom is de droom op drift? Björn Soenens schrijft in Amerika. De droom op drift met onstuitbare passie over het land dat hem mateloos fascineert: van Pocahontas tot Lehman Brothers, van Reagan tot Trump, van Nina Simone tot Bruce Springsteen. Hij...
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