Harper imprint: 2546 books
Blood and Sand
Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956—a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony under the heroic...
by Paul Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
A leading historian and bestselling author re-creates the growth, decline, and legacy of 3,000 Years of Egyptian civilization with an authoritative text splendidly illustrated with 150 illustrations in full color.
Ancient Egypt, with its legacy of pyramids, pharaohs and sphinxes, is a land...
Making History
The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990: An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
When Making History was first published in 1992, the acclaimed oral historian Studs Terkel called it, “One of the definitive works on gay life.” Novelist Armistead Maupin said that author “Eric Marcus not only writes with grace and clarity but makes it look so easy—the ultimate measure of...
The Magical Stranger
A Son's Journey into His Father's Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The Magical Stranger is a moving story of love and sacrifice, fathers and sons, heroism and duty, soldiers and the families they leave behind.
On November 28, 1979, squadron commander and Navy pilot Peter Rodrick died when his plane crashed in the Indian Ocean, leaving behind a devastated wife,...
Catullus' Bedspread
The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A vivid narrative that recreates the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first modern” poet, and follows a young man’s journey through a world filled with all the indulgences and sexual excesses of the time, from doomed love affairs to shrewd political maneuvering and backstabbing—an accessible,...
9 Rules of Engagement
A Military Brat's Guide to Life and Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
The Emmy award-winning news anchor of Outnumbered Overtime with Harris Faulkner and co-host of the talk show Outnumbered shares the lessons she learned growing up in a military family paying homage to the military ideals that shaped her and showing how everyone can benefit from bringing the wisdom...
Ronald Reagan: 100 Years
Official Centennial Edition from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Ronald Reagan: 100 Years is the official centennial publication from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. Featuring archival photographs of the Reagan family along with insightful text, this book is the ultimate commemorative edition to mark the one hundredth anniversary of President Reagan’s...
First in Line
Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world—the vice presidents of the modern era—from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.
Vice presidents occupy...
The Last Republicans
Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
A groundbreaking look at the lives of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the most consequential father-son pair in American history, often in their own words.
In this endearing, illuminating work, presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove tracks the two Bush presidents from their formative...
Midnight in Broad Daylight
A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II—an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption—this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.–Japan relations...
Kingdom of Olives and Ash
Writers Confront the Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists, have...
The Reckoning
Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land-A True Detective Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits a controversial murder: that of Zionist leader Avraham Stern, head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang, in Tel Aviv during WWII.
Militant Zionist Avraham Stern believed he was destined to be the Jewish liberator of British Palestine....
Desperate Sons
Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
“Popular history in its most vital and accessible form. Standiford has recovered the mentality of America’s first group of young radicals, the Sons of Liberty, and tells their story with flair and grace.”
—Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers
Les Standiford’s...
The Angel
The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
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A gripping feat of reportage that exposes—for the first time in English—the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian senior official...