Crown imprint: 1774 books
by Amelia Earhart
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Amelia Earhart's account of her ill-fated last flight around the world, begun in 1937, remains one of the most moving and absorbing adventure stories of all time. Last Flight compiles the letters, diary entries and charts that she sent to her husband, G.P. Putnam at each stage of her trip. In her...
The Lies of George W. Bush
Mastering the Politics of Deception
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
“George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large and small, directly and by omission. He has mugged the truth—not merely in honest error, but deliberately, consistently, and repeatedly.” —from the Introduction
All American presidents have lied, but George W. Bush has relentlessly abused...
The Floor of Heaven
A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.
It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures--gun-toting...
Engineering Eden
The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. **
When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions...
How the South Could Have Won the Civil War
The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
Could the South have won the Civil War?
To many, the very question seems absurd. After all, the Confederacy had only a third of the population and one-eleventh of the industry of the North. Wasn’t the South’s defeat inevitable?
Not at all, as acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander...
The 10 Big Lies About America
Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. “It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.”
In this bold and brilliantly argued book, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on ten...
UFOs
Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
An Air Force major is ordered to approach a brilliant UFO in his Phantom jet over Tehran. He repeatedly attempts to engage and fire on unusual objects heading right toward his aircraft, but his missile control is locked and disabled. Witnessed from the ground, this dogfight becomes the subject of...
The Company We Keep
A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Robert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. Over several decades he served everywhere from Iraq to New Delhi and racked up such an impressive list of accomplishments that he was eventually awarded the Career Intelligence Medal. But if his career was...
The Good Spy
The Life and Death of Robert Ames
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.
On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded...
by Malcolm MacPherson
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
The Blood of His Servants is a remarkable true story. In the whole range of Holocaust literature it stands apart, for it recounts the search by one survivor for the single Nazi murderer of his family—a man who had once been their friend.
In prewar Poland, Bibi Krumholz, the nephew of prosperous...
Escape from the Land of Snows
The Young Dalai Lama's Harrowing Flight to Freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
On the evening of March 17, 1959, as the people of Tibet braced for a violent power grab by Chinese occupiers—one that would forever wipe out any vestige of national sovereignty—the twenty-four-year-old Dalai Lama, Tibet’s political and spiritual leader, contemplated the impossible. The task...
The Last Full Measure
How Soldiers Die in Battle
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In this brilliantly researched, deeply humane work of history, Michael Stephenson traces the paths that have led soldiers to their graves over the centuries, revealing a wealth of insight about the nature of combat, the differences among cultures, and the unchanging qualities of humanity itself.
Behind...
The Taste of Ashes
The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
An inventive, wholly original look at the complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives.
In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s The File, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding...
Russia
Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams (Revised Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
A classic portrait of life in Soviet Russia by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Shipler
During the Cold War, David Shipler spent four years in Moscow as a New York Times correspondent and bureau chief. Out of that experience came Russia, a book that probed beneath the usual surface observations,...