Below is a listing US History books that have been or will be published in 2012 sorted by month of release. If you have any to add, a useful reviews or want to include a comment just send them to me at
jhaverly@gmail.com.
Enjoy!
November
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
October
Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
September
John Quincy Adams
Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man
Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World
To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862
August
American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home 1945-2000 (Penguin History of the United States)
July
A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
Freedom Trail Boston - Ultimate Tour & History Guide - Tips, Secrets & Tricks w/Auto-Translate
Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
The Long Road To Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution
Final Victory: FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign
June
Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA
May
Born to Battle: Grant and Forrest--Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga
Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars
Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
George Washington's Military Genius
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation
The Gumshoe and the Shrink: Guenther Reinhardt, Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker, and the Secret History of the 1960 Kennedy/Nixon Election
The Civil War Months: A Month-by-Month Compendium of the War Between the States
April
American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder After the Panic of 1837
America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union
City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
Jon's Review
Deadly Valentines: The Story of Capone's Henchman "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn and Louise Rolfe, His Blonde Alibi
Detroit: A Biography
The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies
More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy
New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham
The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
Two Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World
Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
March
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
Birch Coulie: The Epic Battle of the Dakota War
The Civil War: The Second Year Told By Those Who Lived It (Library of America)
Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York
Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston
February
Enemies: A History of the FBI
FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal
Freedom's Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War
Freedom's Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America
The Great Molasses Flood
Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream
James Madison and the Making of America
January
Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864
Illinois in the War of 1812
Knights of the Sea: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812
Mr. and Mrs. Madison's War: America's First Couple and the Second War of Independence
Nixon's Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled President
The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right
A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict, Bicentennial Edition
William Henry Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 9th President,1841
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