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JFK's Last Hundred Days
The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
**A Kirkus Best Book of 2013
A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s last hundred days that asks what might have been**
Fifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke argues that the heart of that legend...
The Sack of Rome
Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Award-winning author Alexander Stille has been called ?one of the best English-language writers on Italy? by the New York Times Book Review, and in The Sack of Rome he sets out to answer the question: What happens when vast wealth, a virtual media monopoly, and acute shamelessness combine in one man?...
A Treasury of Great American Scandals
Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Following on the heels of his national bestseller A Treasury of Royal Scandals, Michael Farquhar turns his attention to matters a little closer to home with A Treasury of Great American Scandals. From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and...
The Bin Ladens
An Arabian Family in the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The rise and rise of the Bin Laden family is one of the great stories of the twentieth century; its repercussions have already deeply marked the twenty-first. Until now, however, it is a story that has never been fully told, as the Bin Ladens have successfully fended off attempts to understand the...
The Arrogance of Power
The Secret World of Richard Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
The controversial *New York Times–*bestselling biography of America’s most infamous president written by a master of investigative political reporting.
Anthony Summers’s towering biography of Richard Nixon reveals a tormented figure whose criminal behavior did not begin with Watergate....
Citizens of the Green Room
Profiles in Courage and Self-Delusion
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Author of the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller This Town and Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times, Mark Leibovich returns with a masterly collection of portraits of Washington’s elite, and wannabe elites.
Hailed by The Washington Post as a “master of the political profile,”...
Secrets
A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
The true story of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the event which inspired Steven Spielberg’s feature film The Post
In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the Pentagon Papers - a 7,000-page top-secret study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam - to...
The Nixon Defense
What He Knew and When He Knew It
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Based on Nixon’s overlooked recordings, New York Times bestselling author John W. Dean connects the dots between what we’ve come to believe about Watergate and what actually happened
Watergate forever changed American politics, and in light of the revelations about the NSA’s widespread...
Abraham Lincoln
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2002
The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth
The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very heart of American history. But who was he,...
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan
A History of the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
A controversial look at Reagan's role in ending the Cold War- from the author of The New York Times bestseller Rise of the Vulcans
In his surprising new book, critically lauded author James Mann trains his keen analytical eye on Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union, shedding new light on the...
Friends Divided
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
**A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation,...
Stalin
Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history
In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over...
by Aung San Suu Kyi
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Letters from Burma - an unforgettable collection from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi
In these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma's borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land.
Here she celebrates the courageous...
Alice
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
An entertaining and eye-opening biography of America's most memorable first daughter
From the moment Teddy Roosevelt's outrageous and charming teenage daughter strode into the White House—carrying a snake and dangling a cigarette—the outspoken Alice began to put her imprint on the whole...