Free Press imprint: 1019 books
Domestic Revolutions
A Social History Of American Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 1989
An examination of how the concept of “family” has been transformed over the last three centuries in the U.S., from its function as primary social unit to today’s still-evolving model.
Based on a wide reading of letters, diaries and other contemporary documents, Mintz, an historian, and...
Yellow Dirt
An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD
Atop a craggy mesa in the northern reaches of the Navajo reservation lies what was once a world-class uranium mine called Monument No. 2. Discovered in the 1940s—during the government’s desperate press to build nuclear weapons—the...
Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?
An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Diets don't work. Why not? Because they focus on what foods we should and shouldn't eat but completely ignore everything else that makes us fat. Look at your own situation: You say you want to lose weight, but you just can't stop indulging. You say you'd exercise more if only you had the time, yet...
The Butterfly Cabinet
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Vivid, mysterious and unforgettable, The Butterfly Cabinet is Bernie McGill’s engrossing portrayal of the dark history that intertwines two lives. Inspired by a true story of the death of the daughter of an aristocratic Irish family at the end of the nineteenth century, McGill powerfully tells this...
Times Two
Two Women in Love and the Happy Family They Made
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
TO EVERY GOOD LOVE STORY, THERE IS A TWIST. Times Two is about two women meeting, falling madly in love, and realizing that they are so crazy about each other that they want to have a family together. The fact that they both get pregnant at the exact same time is where things start to get interesting.
Sarah...
by Anthony T. Kronman
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
The former dean of Yale Law School argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses today is out of place at institutions whose job is to prepare citizens to live in a vibrant democracy.
In his tenure at Yale, Anthony Kronman has watched students march across campus to protest...
Angela Sloan
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
In his latest novel, universally acclaimed author James Whorton, Jr., delivers a curious Nixon-era caper of broken men and stoic runaways who learn just how much there is to gain, and lose, when you go undercover. Angela Sloan, a seemingly average teenager living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.,...
Leonard Woolf
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning draws on her deep knowledge of the twentieth century literary scene, and on her meticulous research into previously untapped sources, to write the first full biography of the extraordinary man who was the "dark star" at the center of the Bloomsbury...
by Martin Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005
In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a century.
Winston Churchill, whose mother,...
Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us
Customer Service and What It Reveals About Our World and Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Bring up the subject of customer service phone calls and the blood pressure of everyone within earshot rises exponentially. Otherwise calm, rational, and intelligent people go into extended rants about an industry that seems to grow more inhuman and unhelpful with every phone call we make. And Americans...
Dead Certain
The Presidency of George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
In this ambitious work of political narrative, Robert Draper takes us inside the Bush White House and delivers an intimate portrait of a tumultuous decade and a beleaguered administration. Virtually every page of this book crackles with scenes, anecdotes, and dialogue that will surprise even long-...
Bloggers on the Bus
How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Ever since radio entered the American private home, technology has shaped political campaign strategy. Radio brought candidates more intimately and vividly into citizens' lives than newspapers could. The televised presidential debate of 1960 -- in which a strapping John F. Kennedy embarrassed a clammy...
The Death of Outrage
Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 1998
Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, the president and his advisors have constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. It is a wall that has remained unbreached. Until now.
In...
Empty Without You
The Intimate Letters Of Eleanor Roosevelt And Lorena Hickok
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 1999
The relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickok has sparked vociferous debate ever since 1978, when archivists at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library discovered eighteen boxes filled with letters the two women exchanged during their thirty-year friendship. But...