The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter ...
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ide...
Louis MenandWinner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryA riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought.The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its m...
Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Or...
Bill O'ReillyThe instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller, now in paperback! In the tenth book in the multimillion-sellingKillingseries, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most controvers...
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindberg...
Lynne OlsonNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the acclaimed author of Citizens of London comes the definitive account of the debate over American intervention in World War II—a bitter, sometimes violent clash of personalities and ideas that divided...
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern T...
Marilynne RobinsonIn this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing 'Calvinism' and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive 'puritan' stereotyp...
My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt...
Eleanor RooseveltRecently named 'Woman of the Century' in a survey conducted by the National Women's Hall of Fame, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote her hugely popular syndicated column 'My Day' for over a quarter of that century, from 1936 to 1962. This collec...
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History...
Richard RothsteinThis “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) ...
The Seventies: The Great Shift in Ame...
Bruce J. SchulmanSweeping away misconceptions about the 'Me Decade,' Bruce Schulman offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant examination of the political, cultural, social, and religious upheavals of the 1970s. Arguing that it was one of the m...
Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrify...
Hampton SidesNATIONAL BESTSELLEREdgar Award NomineeOne of the Best Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco ChronicleWith a New AfterwordOn April 4, ...
The Big Roads: The Untold Story of th...
Earl SwiftPerhaps nothing changed the face of America more than the creation of the interstate system. At once a connective network, economic force, man-made wonder, and bringer of sprawl and blight, the interstate system turned haphazard dirt ...
Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and...
Sherill TippinsWinner of the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing“Tippins tells riveting stories about the Chelsea’s artists, but she also captures a much grander, and more pressing, narrative: that of the ongoing battle between art a...
Memories of the Ford Administration
John UpdikeWhen junior college professor Alfred Clayton is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well. In a decade of sexual liberation, Clayton was facing a doomed marria...
The Great Depression: America in the ...
T. H. WatkinsA companion volume to the fall PBS series chronicles the devastation caused by the nation's most serious economic upheaval, offering parallels with America's present economic woes. By the author of Righteous Pilgrim. TV tie-in. ...
City of Ambition: FDR, Laguardia, and...
Mason B. Williams"Fascinating. . . . Williams tells the story of La Guardia and Roosevelt with insight and elegance."—Edward Glaeser, New York Times Book ReviewCity of Ambition is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in the mak...
Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controvers...
Thomas Sowell'The desire of individuals and groups to puff themselves up by imposing their vision on other people is a recurring theme in the culture wars' Thomas Sowell takes on a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issu...