Free Press imprint: 1019 books
A Country That Works
Getting America Back on Track
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Andy Stern, one of the most visionary leaders in America today, has fought relentlessly to ensure that Americans' hard work is rewarded in today's hypercompetitive, globalized world. As the newsmaking president of the fastest-growing, most dynamic union in America, he has led the charge for modernizing...
Hardball
How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 1999
How politics is played by one who knows the game...
Chris Matthews has spent a quarter century on the playing field of American politics—from right-hand man of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill to host of NBC's highest rated cable talk show Hardball. In this revised and updated edition of...
Autopsy For An Empire
The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
The late Dmitri Volkogonov emerged in the last decade of his life as the preeminent Russian historian of this century. His crowning achievement is the account of the seven General Secretaries of the Soviet Empire in Autopsy for an Empire, a book that tells the entire history of the Soviet failure.
Having...
Trotsky
Eternal Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008
Together with Lenin, Trotsky was the most charismatic and dominating figure of the Russian revolution. A dynamic public speaker, a brilliant organizer and theorist, he was largely responsible for advocating the system of state terror which was ultimately to lead to the nightmare of Stalinism. This...
Milosevic
Portrait of a Tyrant
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1999
Who is Slobodan Milosevic?
Is he the next Saddam Hussein, the leader of a renegade nation who will continue to torment the United States for years to come? Or is he the next Moammar Qaddafi, an international outcast silenced for good by a resolute American bombing campaign?
The war in...
Alexander II
The Last Great Tsar
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln, and the greatest reformer tsar since Peter the Great. He was also one of the most contradictory, and fascinating, of history's supreme leaders. He freed the serfs, yet launched vicious wars. He engaged in the sexual exploits of a royal Don Juan, yet fell profoundly...
Civil War Command And Strategy
The Process Of Victory And Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In this comparative history of Union & Confederate command & strategy, Jones shows us how the Civil War was actually conducted. Looking at decision-making at the highest levels, Jones argues that President Lincoln & Davis & most of their senior generals brought to the context of the Civil War a broad...
by Joseph Glatthaar
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Explores the productive friendships of such contrasting personalities as Grant and Sherman and Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, bringing to life the struggle between McClellan and Lincoln and Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston.
General Lee's Army
From Victory to Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
"You would be surprised to see what men we have in the ranks," Virginia cavalryman Thomas Rowland informed his mother in May 1861, just after joining the Army of Northern Virginia. His army -- General Robert E. Lee's army -- was a surprise to almost everyone: With daring early victories and an invasion...
Lincoln's Code
The Laws of War in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Bancroft Prize Winner
ABA Silver Gavel Award Winner
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It...
by Gil Troy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
See How They Ran explores why candidates campaign as they do, why Americans complain about it, and what these evolving patterns and changing images tell us about American democracy itself.
On the eve of every election, many Americans become convinced that this presidential campaign is worse...
Wisenheimer
A Childhood Subject to Debate
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Have you ever met a child who talked like an adult? Who knew big words and how to use them? Was he a charmer or an insufferable smart aleck—or maybe both? Mark Oppenheimer was just such a boy, his talent for language a curse as much as a blessing. But when he got to junior high, Oppenheimer discovered...
by Rickie Solinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1995
Prior to Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of illegal abortions occurred in the United States every year. Rickie Solinger uses the story of Ruth Barnett, an abortionist in Portland, Oregon, between 1918 and 1968 to demonstrate that it was the law, not so-called back-alley practitioners, that most...
How to Break a Terrorist
The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Finding Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, had long been the U.S. military's top priority -- trumping even the search for Osama bin Laden. No brutality was spared in trying to squeeze intelligence from Zarqawi's suspected associates. But these "force on force" techniques yielded...