Free Press: 1051 books
Fire & Roses
The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2000
In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of 1834, a woman clawed her way over the wall of a Roman Catholic convent near Boston, Massachusetts and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection. When the bishop, Benedict Fenwick, persuaded her to return, rumors began swirling...
by Milton K. Munitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The theoretical physicist shares his latest thoughts on the nature of space and time in this anthology of selections from Princeton University Press. Along with eminent colleagues, Hawking extends theoretical frontiers by speculating on the big questions of modern cosmology.
Tearing Down the Walls
How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World. . .and Then Nearly Lost It All
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2003
The very night that Sanford "Sandy" Weill, the chairman and chief executive officer of Citigroup, was being feted on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as CEO of the Year, the television screens above the floor were flashing danger: A congressional panel was tearing into Jack Grubman,...
One Last Great Thing
A Story of a Father and a Son, a Story of a Life and a Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A powerful, honest, and inspiring tribute to the incredible life of Richard Burke, the founder of Trek Bicycle Corporation, written by his son John.
Richard Burke, known to many as “The Big Guy,” was a legend. With his friend Bevil Hogg, he founded the Trek Bicycle Corporation in 1976 and...
Gentleman Revolutionary
Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Since 1996, Richard Brookhiser has devoted himself to recovering the Founding for modern Americans. The creators of our democracy had both the temptations and the shortcomings of all men, combined with the talents and idealism of the truly great. Among them, no Founding Father demonstrates the combination...
Thelonious Monk
The Life and Times of an American Original
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
The first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, written by a brilliant historian, with full access to the family's archives and with dozens of interviews. Now updated with an afterword for Monk’s 2017 centennial.
Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga...
Will You Take Me As I Am
Joni Mitchell's Blue Period
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Joni Mitchell is one of the most celebrated artists of the last half century, and her landmark 1971 album, Blue, is one of her most beloved and revered works. Generations of people have come of age listening to the album, inspired by the way it clarified their own difficult emotions. Critics and musicians...
Crazy Enough
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Yes,Storm Large is her real name, though she’s been called many things. As a performer, the majority of descriptions have led with “Amazon,” “powerhouse,” “a six-foot Vargas pinup come to life.” Playboy called her a “punk goddess.” You’d never know she used to be called “Little...
Horton Foote
America's Storyteller
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
No playwright in the history of the American theater has captured the soul of the nation more incisively than Horton Foote.
From his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Young Man From Atlanta, to his film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, which received an Oscar, millions of people have been...
Wild Bill Donovan
The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
He was one of America’s most exciting and secretive generals—the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, “Wild Bill” Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country’s first national intelligence...
House to House
An Epic Memoir of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
THE CLASSIC SOLDIER’S MEMOIR FROM MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT STAFF SERGEANT DAVID BELLAVIA
“A rare and gripping account of frontline combat.”—LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty
“They used to say that the real war will never get in the books. Here it does,...
Mrs. Kennedy
The Missing History of the Kennedy Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
New York Times bestselling author Barbara Leaming answers the question: What was it like to be Mrs. John F. Kennedy during the dramatic thousand days of the Kennedy presidency? Here for the first time is the full story of the extravagant interplay of sex and politics that constitutes one of modern...
Learning to Die in Miami
Confessions of a Refugee Boy
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
In his 2003 National Book Award–winning memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire narrated his coming of age in Cuba just before and during the Castro revolution. That book literally ends in midair as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother leave Havana on an airplane—along with thousands...
My Thoughts Be Bloody
The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged by the Union victory and the prospect...