Simon Schuster imprint: 4769 books
An American Life
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1990
Ronald Reagan’s autobiography is a work of major historical importance. Here, in his own words, is the story of his life—public and private—told in a book both frank and compellingly readable.
Few presidents have accomplished more, or been so effective in changing the direction of government...
Winter King
Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and countercoups. Through luck, guile and ruthlessness, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor kings, had clambered to the top of the heap—a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England’s throne. For many he remained...
A Mountain of Crumbs
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Elena Gorokhova’s A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by.
Elena’s country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation struggling to retain its power and...
Bolivar
American Liberator
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
It is astonishing that Simón Bolívar, the great Liberator of South America, is not better known in the United States. He freed six countries from Spanish rule, traveled more than 75,000 miles on horseback to do so, and became the greatest figure in Latin American history. His life is epic, heroic,...
Going Home To Glory
A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
When President Dwight Eisenhower left Washington, D.C., at the end of his second term, he retired to a farm in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that he had bought a decade earlier. Living on the farm with the former president and his wife, Mamie, were his son, daughter-in-law, and four grandchildren,...
Russian Tattoo
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
From the bestselling author of A Mountain of Crumbs, a “brilliant and illuminating” (BookPage) portrait of mothers and daughters that reaches from Cold War Russia to modern-day New Jersey to show how the ties that hold you...
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
Tales from the Pentagon
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
“A dynamic work of reportage” (The New York Times) written “with clarity and...wit” (The New York Times Book Review) about what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased.
Once, war was a temporary state of affairs. Today, America’s wars are everywhere and forever:...
by Patrick N Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Hannibal is “an exciting biography of one of history’s greatest commanders…a thrilling page-turner” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees, and who is still regarded today as one of...
The Death of Caesar
The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
In this story of the most famous assassination in history, “the last bloody day of the [Roman] Republic has never been painted so brilliantly” (The Wall Street Journal).
Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate on March 15, 44 BC—the Ides of March according to the Roman...
A Country of Vast Designs
James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book
Robert Merry's brilliant and highly acclaimed history of a crucial epoch in U.S. history—the presidency of James K. Polk, "our most underrated president" (Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein).
In a one-term presidency,...
by Jean Edward Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2001
Ulysses S. Grant was the first four-star general in the history of the United States Army and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. As general in chief, Grant revolutionized modern warfare. Rather than capture enemy territory...
Pearl Buck in China
Journey to The Good Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
One of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West.
She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went...
by David Herbert Donald
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.
Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois,...
Daughter of Empire
My Life as a Mountbatten
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
“Lady Pamela Hicks’s joyously entertaining new memoir, arguably the poshest book that ever has or will be written” (Newsweek), is a privileged glimpse into the lives and loves of some of the twentieth century’s leading figures.
Pamela Mountbatten entered a remarkable family when she...