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An Hour Before Daylight
Memories Of A Rural Boyhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2001
In an American story of enduring importance, Jimmy Carter re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed it and the country.
In what is sure to become a classic, the bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength writes about the...
The Brother
The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
“A fresh and fast-paced study of one of the most important crimes of the twentieth century” (The Washington Post), The Brother now discloses new information revealed since the original publication in 2003—including an admission by his sons that Julius Rosenberg was indeed a Soviet spy and a...
The Presidents Club
Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower’s inauguration by Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, is a complicated place: its members are bound forever by the experience of the Oval Office and yet are eternal rivals for history’s favor. Among their secrets: How Jack Kennedy tried to blame...
Jack Kennedy
Elusive Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling biography of John F. Kennedy, by Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball.
“What was he like?”
Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. What was he like, this man whose own wife called...
by David McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2001
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for...
The Bully Pulpit
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
One of the Best Books of the Year as chosen by The New York Times*, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time, USA TODAY, Christian Science Monitor,* and more. “A tale so gripping that one questions the need for fiction when real life is so plump with drama and intrigue” (Associated Press).
Doris...
by David McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2003
The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.
The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest...
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
“An engaging, beautifully synthesized page-turner” (Slate). The #1 New York Times bestseller and Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most personal memoir yet, about the 2016 presidential election.
In this “candid and blackly funny” (The New York Times) memoir,...
No Ordinary Time
Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number...
Benjamin Franklin
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003
In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made...
Mornings on Horseback
The Story of an Extraordinary Faimly, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
The National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough.
Mornings on Horseback...
Fair Game
My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassador Wilson's...
Jesse
The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
The definitive biography of one of the most complex public figuresof 20th century America.
A native South Carolinian, Marshall Frady was a journalist for over twenty-five years, writing principally on political figures and racial and social tensions in the American culture, first as a correspondent...
by Ben Bradlee
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
This is the witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his own way to the heights of American journalism and public life, of the great adventure that took him at only twenty years old straight from Harvard to almost four years in the shooting war in the South Pacific, and back, from a maverick...