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Whittaker Chambers
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long...
The Boys' Crusade
The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
The Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own experiences, it provides a stirring narrative of what the war was actually like, from the...
Eager for Glory
The Untold Story of Drusus the Elder, Conqueror of Germania
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
“The first biography of an important personality from the beginnings of Rome’s empire” (Graham Sumner, coauthor of Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier).
Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (Drusus the Elder) was the first conqueror of Germania (the Netherlands and Germany) and one...
The Great Debate
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
An acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism
In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the roots of the left/right political divide in America by examining the views of the men who best represented each side at its origin: Edmund...
Interesting Times
A Twentieth-Century Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, “I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures.”...
The Last Pre-Raphaelite
Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
In Fiona MacCarthy’s riveting account, Burne-Jones’s exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic audacity that would characterize the early twentieth century.
The Same Man
George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
One climbed to the very top of the social ladder, the other chose to live among tramps. One was a celebrity at twenty-three, the other virtually unknown until his dying days. One was right-wing and religious, the other a socialist and an atheist. Yet, as this ingenious and important new book reveals,...
The Fall of the House of Wilde
Oscar Wilde and His Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The first biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu--a compelling volume that finally tells the whole story.
It's widely known that Oscar Wilde was precociously intellectual, flamboyant, and hedonistic--but lesser so that he owed...
Our Man Elsewhere
In Search of Alan Moorehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation . . . and yet forgotten? In this dazzling book, Thornton McCamish delves into the past to reclaim a remarkable figure,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues. These taped lectures and the question-and-answer sessions that followed not only added an eloquent...
The Hooligan's Return
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
At the center of The Hooligan’s Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea’s book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and place, life and literature,...
by John Stape
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
** Please note: The eBook version of this title is slightly different from the paperback version. While the textual content remains the same, the illustrations/photographs were removed from the eBook version because of permissions issues.
The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad* is the first new...
by Andrew S. Curran
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world.
Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most daring writing took place...
Introducing Kant
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
Illustrated INTRODUCING guide to the pre-eminent philosopher of the Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant?s attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of philosophical enquiry. And...