Plunkett Press: 164 books

“Robert Wistrich’s exemplary scholarly analysis of the Viennese Jewish community in the 19th century is the first well-written, reliable study of its kind... gives elegant portraits of the crucial Jewish figures of the new Viennese politics at the turn of the century... focus[es] on the internal...

East of Home by Santha Rama Rau (108,000 words) In 1947, Santha Rama Rau went to Japan with her father, India’s ambassador to Tokyo. A year later, she went to China with friends, hitchhiked to remote provinces of the northwest, and traveled through Indo-China and Siam to Indonesia to...

James B. Conant (1893-1978) was one of the titans of mid-20th-century American history, attaining prominence and power in multiple fields. Usually remembered as an educational leader, he was president of Harvard University for two tumultuous decades, from the Depression to World War II to the Cold...

Shield of David: The Story of Israel’s Armed Forces by Yigal Allon (87,000 words and 264 illustrations) tells the history of the Jews’ armed forces from the Palestine Yishuv’s first efforts at self-defense in the early 1900s, under the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate, during Israel’s...

“Rabi’s voice comes through vividly and forcefully. This is a work of great inspiration.” — **Aage Bohr**, Professor of Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark “This excellent work is the first full biography of Professor Rabi, the scientist who epitomizes the passing...

“Hoffmann does more than convey the emotional impact of Einstein’s science on Einstein. He tries to make the general reader see the problems that concerned Einstein and understand the kinds of theories he constructed to solve them... This calls for scientific popularization of a high order......

Destiny's Journey by Alfred Döblin (edited by Edgar Pässler, translated from the German by Edna McCown, introduction by Peter Demetz; 131,000 words) Destiny's Journey is a memoir reconstructed partly from notebooks that Döblin kept from the time he worked in the French Ministry of Information...

A Living Will by Helen Epstein (8,800 words) A personal account of a mother’s sudden and unexpected hospitalization, and how her adult children negotiated end-of-life decisions. This essay appeared as a New York Magazine cover story on November 27, 1989 as "A Death in the Family 1989."

At a cocktail party in the 1950s, a businessman said to Frederic Warburg, “You seem to know a lot about publishing. Now tell me, is it a business or an occupation for gentlemen?” This memoir seeks to answer that question. Written in 1959, *An Occupation for Gentlemen* covers the author’s life...

In this memoir, Kathryn Hulme, a United Nations relief officer in Bavaria from 1945 until 1951, records the daily life, hopes and struggles of over 100,000 Displaced Persons housed by UNRRA at Wildflecken, a former training camp for Nazi SS troops, and in other DP camps. “[A]n unforgettable...

This eBook edition appears to coincide with the acquisition of the Exclusion/Inclusion Exhibition from the New York Historical Society by the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco (CHSA). “Before World War I, when Chinese contributed importantly to the building of America...

Archivist on a Bicycle is a tribute to Jiří Fiedler, a Czech Protestant, who for most of his life documented extinct Bohemian and Moravian Jewish communities at great danger to himself. His day job was as a children’s book editor; his passion was mapping and archiving the sites of Jewish life...

Speaking to My Country by Jan Masaryk; Foreword by Madeleine Albright; Biographical Note by Helen Epstein (69,000 words) First published in 1944, these speeches deserve study by contemporary students of leadership, media, and international relations. Written and delivered by the then...