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1917 Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder by Arthur Herman, PhD
Category: History
This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson’s entry into World War One and Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution. In April 1917 Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for free trade and a ne ...Show more
1917 - Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder by Arthur Herman
Category: History
This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson's entry into World War One and Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution. In April 1917 Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for free trade and a new ...Show more
Douglas MacArthurAmerican Warrior by Arthur Herman
Category: History
A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation's great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim--from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill Douglas MacArthur was arguably the las ...Show more
Douglas Macarthur: American Warrior by Arthur Herman
Category: Military
A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation's great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim-from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last ...Show more
Freedom's Forge by Herman Arthur
Category: History
SELECTED BY THE ECONOMIST AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General Motors to resign his position and take the reins of a great national enterprise. And the ...Show more
How the Scots Invented the Modern World : The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It by Arthur Herman
Category: History
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, ...Show more
The Cave and the Light: Plato versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization by Arthur Herman
Category: History
Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his "New York Times" bestseller, "How the Scots Invented the Modern World, "and extends the themes of the book--which sold half a million copies worldwide--back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the age of the Internet. "The Cave and the Light "i ...Show more
The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World by Arthur Herman
Category: History
Arthur Herman argues that Scotland's turbulent history, from William Wallace to the Presbyterian Lords of the Covenant, laid the foundations for 'the Scottish miracle'. Within one hundred years, the nation that began the eighteenth century dominated by the harsh and repressive Scottish Kirk had evolved ...Show more
The Viking Heart - How Scandinavians Conquered the World by Arthur Herman
Category: History
A stirring investigation of the Scandinavian influence on our times, both past and present. You won't look at the world the same way again.--Neal Bascomb, New York Times best-selling author of The Winter FortressFrom a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic o ...Show more
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