Americas category: 34066 books
The Girls of Murder City
Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
The true story of the murderesses who became media sensations and inspired the musical Chicago
Chicago, 1924.
There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in the Second City. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders...
When We Were the Kennedys
A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Winner of the 2012 Sarton Memoir Award
“Every few years, a memoir comes along that revitalizes the form…With generous, precise, and unsentimental prose, Monica Wood brilliantly achieves this . . . When We Were the Kennedys is a deeply moving gem!”—Andre Dubus III, author of House of...
A Torch Kept Lit
Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
**The New York Times Bestseller
William F. Buckley, Jr. remembers—as only he could—the towering figures of the twentieth century in a brilliant and emotionally powerful collection, compiled by acclaimed Fox News correspondent James Rosen.**
In a half century on the national stage,...
The Bohemians
Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
An extraordinary portrait of a fast-changing America—and the Western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity
At once an intimate portrait of an unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, The Bohemians reveals how a brief moment on the far western...
by Anne C. Heller
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian...
The World of Raymond Chandler
In His Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Raymond Chandler never wrote a memoir or autobiography. The closest he came to writing either was in—and around—his novels, shorts stories, and letters. There have been books that describe and evaluate Chandler’s life, but to find out what he himself felt about his life and work, Barry Day,...
High, Wide and Lonesome
Growing Up on the Colorado Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
A memoir of a childhood homesteading in frontier Colorado: “A book from the heart . . . the stuff of the American dream” (The New York Times).
In this memoir of a lost America, Hal Borland tells the story of his family’s migration to eastern Colorado as homesteaders at the turn of the...
Man in Profile
Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
WINNER OF THE SPERBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary New Yorker profile writer—author of Joe Gould’s Secret and Up in the Old Hotel—and unravels the...
by Alan Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.
As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of...
Paradise Lost
A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Pigeonholed as a Jazz Age epicurean and an emblem of the Lost Generation, Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation’s shifting mood and manners after WWI. Placing him among Progressives such as Charles Beard, Randolph Bourne, and Thorstein Veblen, David Brown reveals Fitzgerald as a writer with an encompassing historical imagination.
by Richard Francis
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
A Strong West Wind
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle–a place of both boredom and beauty,...
Lucking Out
My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
"How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell.”
That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no...
In the Hamptons
My Fifty Years with Farmers, Fishermen, Artists, Billionaires, and Celebrities
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Long before the Hamptons became famous for its posh parties, paparazzi, and glitterati, it was a sleepy backwater of fishing villages and potato farms, literary luminaries and local eccentrics. As the editor and publisher of the area’s popular free newspaper, Dan’s Papers, Dan Rattiner, has been...