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Len Lomell

Gillon, Steven M.
Len Lomell
The exciting, fascinating story of Len Lomell, an Army Ranger who on D-Day climbed the steep cliffs at Pointe du Hoc and almost single-handedly knocked out the big German guns before they could start firing on the American invasion force, and whose later exploits spanned the most dramatic battles of World War II. Len Lomell was drafted to the United States Army in 1942, became an Army Ranger, and was soon sent to England to prepare for the D-D...

CHF 17.50

Pearl Harbor Lib/E: FDR Leads the Nation Into War

Gillon, Steven M. / Pruden, John
Pearl Harbor Lib/E: FDR Leads the Nation Into War
Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. History would prove him correct, the events of that day--when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor--ended the Great Depression, changed the course of FDR's presidency, and swept America into World War II. In Pearl Harbor, acclaimed historian Steven M. Gillon provides a vivid, minute-by-minute account of Roosevelt's skillful leadership in the wake of the most ...

CHF 28.50

Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into War

Gillon, Steven M. / Pruden, John
Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into War
Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. History would prove him correct, the events of that day--when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor--ended the Great Depression, changed the course of FDR's presidency, and swept America into World War II. In Pearl Harbor, acclaimed historian Steven M. Gillon provides a vivid, minute-by-minute account of Roosevelt's skillful leadership in the wake of the most ...

CHF 28.50

America's Reluctant Prince

Gillon, Steven M.
America's Reluctant Prince
*A New York Times Bestseller*A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America's Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too soon. Through the lens of their decades-long friendship and including exclusive interviews and details from previously classified documents, noted historian and New York Times bestsell...

CHF 21.90

America's Reluctant Prince

Gillon, Steven M
America's Reluctant Prince
*A New York Times Bestseller*A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America's Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too soon. Through the lens of their decades-long friendship and including exclusive interviews and details from previously classified documents, noted historian and New York Times bestsell...

CHF 39.90

Separate and Unequal

Gillon, Steven
Separate and Unequal
The definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequalityIn Separate and Unequal, historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders-popularly known as the Kerner Commission. Convened by President Lyndon Johnson after riots in Newark and Detroit left dozens dead and thousands injured, the commission issued a re...

CHF 43.50

Pact

Gillon, Steven M
Pact
Most Americans saw President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich as staunch foes-"the polar extremes of Pennsylvania Avenue." But as Steven Gillon reveals in The Pact, these powerful adversaries formed a secret alliance in 1997, a pact that would have rocked the political landscape, had it not foundered in the wake of the Lewinsky scandal. A fascinating look at politics American-style, The Pact offers a riveting account of two of America's...

CHF 37.50

The American Paradox: A History of the United States Sinc...

Gillon, Steven M.
The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945
Emphasizes political participation and popular culture in American history. This title focuses on the tension between popular culture and social realities, the dynamics of minority groups and their place in American society, and the ambivalent feelings of many Americans concerning the US' role in the world during the postwar period.

CHF 168.00

Pearl Harbor

Gillon, Steven
Pearl Harbor
Explores the anxious and emotional events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, showing how the president and the American public responded in the pivotal hours that followed the attack.

CHF 23.90

The Democrats' Dilemma

Gillon, Steven
The Democrats' Dilemma
In this political biography of Walter Mondale, Steve Gillon asks a central question that is the basis of his argument: What does Mondale's career reveal about the dilemma of the modern Democratic party and the crisis of post-war American liberalism? Gillon's answer is that Mondale provided a bridge between the Party's past successes and its still undefined future. By examining Mondale's rise in the 1950s and 1960s and his ultimately unsuccessf...

CHF 165.00

The Democrats' Dilemma

Gillon, Steven
The Democrats' Dilemma
What does Walter Mondale's career reveal about the dilemma of the modern Democtratic party and the crisis of postwar American liberalism? Steven M. Gillon 's answer is that Mondale's frustration as Jimmy Carter's vice president and his failure to unseat the immensely popular President Reagan in 1984 reveal the beleaguered state of a party torn apart by generational and ideological disputes. The Democrats' Dilemma begins with Mondale's early ca...

CHF 54.50

"That's Not What We Meant to Do"

Gillon, Steven M
"That's Not What We Meant to Do"
You might think these were sweeping legal reforms that greatly improved American society. Or perhaps you view them as stopgap measures intended to right some grave social injustice. What all these instances of reform share, however, whether sponsored by Democrats or Republicans, is wildly unforeseen consequences--occasionally positive, often regrettable. With a shrewd eye for historical absurdity, Steven M. Gillon takes us on a tour of this ce...

CHF 34.90