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eBooks in de categorie Verenigde Staten

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  • Regime change

    Het tweede presidentschap van Donald Trump van binnenuit

    door Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan ...
    Donald Trump domineert het nieuws, meer nog dan in zijn eerste periode als president van de Verenigde Staten. In 'Regime change' doen New York Times-journalisten Maggie Haberman en Jonathan Swan nauwgezet verslag van wat er deze tweede termijn van Trump gedaan en gezegd wordt. Ze geven een realtime reportage vanuit de Situation Room, het Oval Office, benefietavonden en van achter gesloten deuren – ... Meer lezen

    14,99 €

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  • De verscheurde staten van Amerika

    De Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog, de rol van België en het gevaar voor een nieuwe burgeroorlog

    door Johan Op de Beeck ...
    De bestorming van het Capitool in Washington op 6 januari 2021 is een wake-upcall. Een burgeroorlog in de Verenigde Staten leek te absurd om te overwegen, maar vandaag wordt hij gevreesd. Tijdens de Civil War (1861-1865) tussen de Noordelijke en Zuidelijke Staten vielen bijna een miljoen doden. Aanleiding voor het conflict was de slavernij. Inzet van de interne broedertwist was de democratie. En ... Meer lezen

    19,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer

    From the master of the plot twist

    door Joël Dicker ...
    Vertaald door Howard Curtis ...
    A twisty standalone thriller from the author of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair***"*Twists, turns, cliffhangers and red herrings galore" The Times"Nothing will matter to you more than finishing this book" ElleIn the summer of 1994, the quiet seaside town of Orphea reels from the discovery of four murders. Two young police officers, Jesse Rosenberg and Derek Scott crack the case and identi ... Meer lezen

    5,49 €

  • Prairie Fires

    The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

    door Caroline Fraser ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Just as gripping as the original novels . . . As pacy and vivid as one of Wilder's own narratives, this surprising biography is immensely revealing both about Wilder and about America's founding myths' Sunday Times'"Little House" devotees wil... ... Meer lezen

    2,99 €

  • This Land is Your Land

    A Road Trip Through U.S. History

    door Beverly Gage ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our history. From the birth of the nation in ... Meer lezen

    16,76 €

  • Just Kids

    An Autobiography

    door Patti Smith ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIt was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the ... Meer lezen

    2,89 €

  • Lords of Finance

    1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers who Broke the World

    door Liaquat Ahamed ...
    THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the Second World War. Yet the economic meltdown could have been avoided, had it not been for the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers.In Lords ... Meer lezen

    9,49 €

  • The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

    door Martin Wolf ...
    From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undoneWe are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that ought to ... Meer lezen

    10,99 €

  • Undaunted Courage

    Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening

    door Stephen E. Ambrose ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the ... Meer lezen

    19,00 €

  • Het pijnstillerimperium

    De geheime familiegeschiedenis achter de opiatencrisis

    door Patrick Radden Keefe ...
    Vertaald door New Zeno ...
    'Een non-fictie-tegenhanger van de Great American Novel.' ····· NRC HandelsbladDe naam Sackler prijkt groots op de muren van het Louvre, het Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford en Harvard University. De familie staat bekend om de omvangrijke donaties aan kunst en wetenschap. De bron van het familiefortuin was jarenlang onbekend, totdat uitkwam dat de Sacklers miljarden verdienden aan het produceren ... Meer lezen

    12,99 €

  • Hell Week and Beyond

    The Making of a Navy SEAL

    door Scott McEwen ...
    Follow America's elite warriors through the military's most grueling training and learn how they survive real special operations.Of the 18 months required to become a Navy SEAL, one week will cause over half of the trainees to quit ("ring the bell"). Only the toughest make it through. In Hell Week and Beyond, Scott McEwen takes the readers to the sands of Coronado Beach in San Diego, where Navy ... Meer lezen

    9,49 €

  • Pennsylvania

    door Thomas C. Cochran ...
    Who would have guessed, three centuries ago, that William Penn's "greene" province and "countrie towne" on the Delaware would become the keystone of American industrialization and the source of some of the nation's most important business institutions?Penn's colony was a haven of toleration for people of many origins and beliefs; later, the state of Pennsylvania was a place where human talents and ... Meer lezen

    13,77 €

  • The Warmth of Other Suns

    The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    door Isabel Wilkerson ...
    'A landmark piece of non-fiction' Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens who fled the south and went north in search of a better lifeFrom 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost six million people would change the face of America. With stunning historical detail, Pulitzer prize ... Meer lezen

    12,99 €

  • The American Senate

    An Insider's History

    door Neil MacNeil, Richard A. Baker ...
    Winner of the Society for History in the Federal Government's George Pendleton Prize for 2013 The United States Senate has fallen on hard times. Once known as the greatest deliberative body in the world, it now has a reputation as a partisan, dysfunctional chamber. What happened to the house that forged American history's great compromises? In this groundbreaking work, a distinguished journalist ... Meer lezen

    14,26 €

  • The Battle of Fort Sumter

    The First Shots of the American Civil War

    door Wesley Moody ...
    Serie series Critical Moments in American History
    On April 12, 1861, the long-simmering tensions between the American North and South exploded as Southern troops in the seceding state of South Carolina fired on the Federal forces at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. The battle of Fort Sumter marked the outbreak of Civil War in the United States. The attack provoked outrage in the North, consolidated support for the newly inaugurated President ... Meer lezen

    51,13 €

  • George B. McClellan

    The Young Napoleon

    door Stephen W. Sears ...
    "Sears has finally unraveled the mystique of this complex, brilliant Civil War general . . . A fascinating story" (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom)."Commander of the Northern army in the Civil War, Gen. George McClellan saw himself as God's chosen instrument for saving the Union. Self-aggrandizing, with a streak of arrogant stubbornness, he set himself above President Lincoln, ... Meer lezen

    12,29 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • A Pickpocket's Tale

    The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York

    door Timothy J. Gilfoyle ...
    "A true story more incredible than fiction." —Kevin Baker, author of Striver's RowIn George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as much as a skilled laborer made in a year. Bad nights left him with more than a dozen scars and over a decade in prisons ... Meer lezen

    20,87 €

  • Schurken

    Waargebeurde verhalen over moordenaars, oplichters, dwarsliggers en vrijbuiters

    door Patrick Radden Keefe ...
    Vertaald door Hans E. van Riemsdijk, Marijke Gheeraert ...
    'Schurken is journalistieke topklasse van een onverschrokken verteller.' ***** De Telegraaf'Onderzoeksjournalistiek op zijn best.' **** NRC Handelsblad'De verhalen van Patrick Radden Keefe spoken nog lang door je hoofd.' Trouw'Een van de beste non-fictie auteurs van zijn generatie.' Toronto Star**'Een geweldig boek.' Wall Street Journal</... ... Meer lezen

    14,99 €

  • 9/11 Complex

    De dag dat men de wereld veranderde

    door Coen Vermeeren ...
    De dag dat men de wereld veranderde Meer dan ooit vindt in de VS een stevig debat plaats over de aanslagen van 9/11. Diverse nieuwe onderzoeken bevatten explosief materiaal dat de officiële uitleg door Amerika volledig onderuit haalt. Een groot deel van de bevolking in de Verenigde Staten is er inmiddels van overtuigd dat hun overheid veel te verbergen heeft. Al bijna 3500 internationale ... Meer lezen

    Was 25,99 € Nu 15,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • The Long 1968

    Revisions and New Perspectives

    Bewerkt door Daniel J. Sherman, Ruud van Dijk, Jasmine Alinder, A. Aneesh ...
    Delving into a tumultuous year's impact on art, culture, and politics, this book "illuminates the often-overlooked histories of 1968" ( The Journal of American History).From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, revolutions in theory, politics, and cultural experimentation swept around the world. These changes had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left.A touchstone for activists, ... Meer lezen

    12,29 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Zeitoun

    door Dave Eggers ...
    Vertaald door Maaike Bijnsdorp, Lucie Schaap ...
    Terwijl de orkaan Katrina New Orleans verwoestte, besloot Abdulrahman Zeitoun, een 47-jarige Amerikaan van Syrische komaf, in de stad te blijven om zijn huis en zijn bedrijf te beschermen. In de dagen na de storm peddelt hij in een tweedehands kano door de ondergelopen straten van New Orleans, deelt goederen uit en helpt waar hij kan. Een week later, op 6 september 2005, verdwijnt hij plotseling. ... Meer lezen

    9,99 €

  • Fortuna's kinderen

    Een trans-Atlantische familiekroniek

    door Annejet van der Zijl ...
    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 ... Meer lezen

    9,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Over the Great Navajo Trail

    door Carl Eickemeyer ...
    "The story of a journey westward from Santa Fe to the Navajo Reservation, told by one who knows the Indians well." NY Tribune, Dec. 15, 1901"This well illustrated story is picturesque, animated, instructive." - The Literary World, 1901"Of historical and literary value." - National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1909In the summer of 1896, Carl Eickemeyer in company with his wife and Sam, an ... Meer lezen

    0,88 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • One Shot, One Kill

    A History of the Sniper

    door Andy Dougan ...
    Previously published as The Hunting of ManOne shot, one kill: a cultural and military history of the sniper since 1643, when the first shot was fired by a sniper during the battle for Litchfield in the English Civil War, to the present day, when the sniper has become the embodiment of contemporary military strategy and technology.Since Robert Greville, Lord Brooke, commander of the Parliamentarian ... Meer lezen

    6,99 €