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New Deal or Raw Deal?
How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
A sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression -- and are still hurting America today.
In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic historian Burton W. Folsom exposes the idyllic...
The First American
The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography. Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin was in every respect America’s first...
by Marshall W. Fishwick
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
In December 1606, when they set sail from London for the Virginia coast, the people aboard the three ships anticipated the best. They would establish a British colony, find gold, and discover a water route to Asia. But what awaited them was far different - fire, hunger, sickness, death, even cannibalism....
A Ranger Born
A Memoir of Combat and Valor from Korea to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ranger. With their three-hundred-year history of peerless courage and independence of spirit, Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier, one foot in the military, one in the...
T.R.
The Last Romantic
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
From the New York Times bestselling author, an acclaimed biography of President Teddy Roosevelt
Lauded as "a rip-roaring life" (Wall Street Journal), TR is a magisterial biography of Theodore Roosevelt by bestselling author H.W. Brands. In his time, there was no more popular national...
by W. G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The masterworks of W. G. Sebald, now in gorgeous new covers by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund
New Directions is delighted to announce beautiful new editions of these three classic Sebald novels, including his two greatest works, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. All three novels are...
Dante
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
An insightful biography of Florence?s famous son
Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here we meet the boy who first encounters the mythic Beatrice, the lyric poet obsessed with love and...
William Styron
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
A “mesmerizing” biography of the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Sophie’s Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Darkness Visible (Entertainment Weekly).
William Styron was one of the most highly regarded and controversial authors of his generation. In this illuminating...
by John M W Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Over the past year I made a series of posts on my blog to relate incidents from my life so far. Encouraged by the interest that they aroused, I decided to compile them into a free ebook to reach even more readers and this, then, is the result of my efforts. So, as I value my reputation of getting straight...
Colleagues in Genius
Out of My Later Years, Scientific Autobiography, and Nuclear Physics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
These three works by Nobel Prize–winning physicists offer an enlightening window into the scientific minds that changed the twentieth century.
With their discoveries and formulations, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg ushered the world into the Nuclear Age. As colleagues,...
Brothers, Rivals, Victors
Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
**“One of the great stories of the American military.”—Thomas E. Ricks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Generals
The intimate true story of three of the greatest American generals of World War II, and how their intense blend of comradery and competition spurred Allied forces to victory.**
Dwight...
Andrew Jackson
His Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
National Bestseller
In this, the first major single-volume biography of Andrew Jackson in decades, H.W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in.
An orphan at a young age and without formal education or the family lineage...
American Brutus
John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fiery end in a Virginia tobacco barn. In the national hysteria that followed, eight others were arrested...
FDR Goes to War
How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
From the acclaimed author of New Deal or Raw Deal?, called “eye-opening” by the National Review, comes a fascinating exposé of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s destructive wartime legacy—and its adverse impact on America’s economic and foreign policies today.
Did World War II really end...