Crown imprint: 1774 books
Independent Nation
How the Vital Center Is Changing American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Fifty percent of American voters define themselves as political moderates, two-thirds favor political solutions that come from the center of the political spectrum, and Independents outnumber both Democrats and Republicans. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush each explicitly used Centrist strategies to...
Bully Boy
The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
What Hath TR Wrought?
“I don’t think that any harm comes from the concentration of power in one man’s hands.” —Theodore Roosevelt
The notion that Theodore Roosevelt was one of America’s greatest presidents is literally carved in stone—right up there on Mount Rushmore. But...
Journey from the Land of No
A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“We stormed every classroom, inscribed our slogans on the blackboard . . . Never had mayhem brought more peace. All our lives we had been taught the virtues of behaving, and now we were discovering the importance of misbehaving. Too much fear had tainted our days. Too many afternoons had passed...
Jefferson and the Gun-Men
How the West Was Almost Lost
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
Contrary to popular opinion, the opening of the American frontier was not a simple land purchase; it was actually a hardscrabble fight. Even as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out on their legendary journey to the Pacific Ocean, other forces were taking the measure of the land with far darker...
Makers and Takers
How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America?
In looking at the forces that brought our current administration to power one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief...
The Remarkable Millard Fillmore
The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Millard Fillmore has been mocked, maligned, or, most cruelly of all, ignored by generations of historians--but no more! This unbelievable new biography finally rescues the unlucky thirteenth U.S. president from the dustbin of history and shows why a man known as a blundering, arrogant, shallow, miserable...
Menace in Europe
Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Old Europe’s new crisis.
Europe, the charming continent of windmills and gondolas. But lately, Europe has become the continent of endless strikes and demonstrations, bombs on the trains and subways, radical Islamic cells in every city, and ghettos so hopeless and violent even the police...
by Jeff Long
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1999
We are not alone. Some call them devils or demons. But they are real. They are down there. And they are waiting for us to find them.
In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with a warning: Satan exists. In the Kalahari Desert, a nun unearths evidence of a proto-human...
Crash Out
The True Tale of a Hell's Kitchen Kid and the Bloodiest Escape in Sing Sing History
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
The enthralling and evocative story of tough Depression-era bandits who vowed to make something of themselves, even if that meant defying the stone walls of America’s most infamous prison, by a writer who grew up in Sing Sing’s shadow.
During an era of never-ending breadlines and corrupt...
State vs. Defense
The Battle to Define America's Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
A masterful account of how sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of unnecessary conflict, helped to fuel Islamist terror, and threatens to bankrupt the country.
For most of the twentieth century, the sword has led before the olive branch in American foreign policy....
Nature Wars
The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history. For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless, perhaps, you are one...
Operation Storm
Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead of their time
In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid—this time against New...
The Marauders
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
"A little Elmore Leonard, a little Charles Portis, and very much its own uniquely American self. . .Tom Cooper has written one hell of a novel." –Stephen King
When the BP oil spill devastates the Louisiana Gulf Coast, the citizens of the bayou town of Jeanette scramble to replace...
The Grey Bastards
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
**“[A] fantasy masterwork . . . a dirty, blood-soaked gem of a novel [that reads] like Mad Max set in Tolkien’s Middle-earth.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Jackal and his fellow half-orcs patrol the barren wastes of the Lot Lands, spilling their own damned blood to keep civilized...