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by E. B White
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Originally edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, and revised and updated by Martha White. With a foreword by John Updike.
These letters are, of course, beautifully written but above all personal, precise, and honest. They evoke E.B. White’s life in New York and in Maine at every stage of his life....
City Poet
The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The definitive biography of Frank O’Hara, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, the magnetic literary figure at the center of New York’s cultural life during the 1950s and 1960s.
City Poet captures the excitement and promise of mid-twentieth-century New York in the...
The Enemy of the People
A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
A New York Times bestseller.
From CNN’s veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump’s war on truth.
In Mr. Trump’s campaign...
The Making of a Philosopher
My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self–portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Making of a Philosopher follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England reading Descartes and Anselm, to his years in the...
Montaigne in Barn Boots
An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne.
"The journey began on a gurney," writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that...
American Values
Lessons I Learned from My Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
With rich detail, compelling honesty, and a storyteller’s gift, RFK Jr. describes his life growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that we confront today.
“With emotion and striking detail,...
It Worked for Me
In Life and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Colin Powell, one of America’s most admired public figures, reveals the principles that have shaped his life and career in this inspiring and engrossing memoir.
A beautiful companion to his previous memoir, the #1 New York Times bestseller My American Journey, Powell’s It Worked for Me:...
Profiles in Courage
Deluxe Modern Classic
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy.
Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage serves as a clarion call to every...
John Quincy Adams
American Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Lincoln, returns with John Quincy Adams, an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked presidents in American history—a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation.
In this fresh...
Lincoln and the Abolitionists
John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
**“[Kaplan] tells this story with precision and eloquence.”****—**Seattle Times
“An eye-opening biography from a trusted source on the topic.” **—**Kirkus Review
“Elegantly written and thoroughly researched.”** **—**Publishers Weekly
The acclaimed biographer,...
The Nine of Us
Growing Up Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
In this evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy, offers an intimate and illuminating look at a time long ago when she and her siblings, guided by their parents, laughed and learned a great deal under one roof.
Prompted...
Madam Secretary
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
A national bestseller on its original publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is a riveting account of the life of America's first woman Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Albright was a high-level participant in some of the most dramatic...
American Moonshot
John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Instant New York Times Bestseller
As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to...
Camelot's Court
Inside the Kennedy White House
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls “Kennedy’s leading biographer,” delivers a riveting new portrait of this president and his inner circle of advisors—their rivalries, personality clashes, and political battles....