Basic Books: 1466 books
by David Clay Large
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
In the political history of the past century, no city has played a more prominent-though often disastrous-role than Berlin. At the same time, Berlin has also been a dynamic center of artistic and intellectual innovation. If Paris was the "Capital of the Nineteenth Century," Berlin was to...
Wounded Knee
Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300 Sioux. As acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson shows in Wounded Knee, the massacre grew out of a set of political...
The Tinkerers
The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Having completed her transition from a manufacturing economy, America – it is said – has stopped making things. When there are breakthroughs in engineering and design, it’s usually thanks to a team of corporate researchers trying to squeeze out more profit. But once upon a time, the United States...
Moore's Law
The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Our world today-from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon-has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny switches have enabled ever-more startling capabilities....
True Style
The History and Principles of Classic Menswear
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
From choosing the right pair of eyeglasses to properly coordinating a shirt, tie, and pocket square, getting dressed is an art to be mastered. Yet, how many of us just throw on, well, whatever each morning? How many understand the subtleties of selecting the right pair of socks or the most compatible...
The Futures
The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World's Biggest Markets
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
In The Futures, Emily Lambert, senior writer at Forbes magazine, tells us the rich and dramatic history of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade, which together comprised the original, most bustling futures market in the world. She details the emergence of the futures business...
The Money Makers
How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Shortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best, and ruinous at worst. But they could not have been more wrong.
With The Money Makers, Eric Rauchway tells the absorbing...
The Price of Government
Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Government is broke. The 2004 federal deficit is the highest in U.S. history. The states have suffered three years of record shortfalls. Cities, counties, and school districts are laying off policemen and teachers, closing schools, and cutting services. But the fiscal pain won't go away, and the bankrupt...
The Next Deal
The Future Of Public Life In The Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
The Next Deal offers a highly readable blueprint for politics in the twenty-first century. The old-style one-size-fits-all government, Cherny argues, cannot accommodate the significant changes-including the moral revolution of the '60s and the technological revolution of the last fifteen years-that...
Jefferson
Architect of American Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970
Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B....
John Quincy Adams
Militant Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
"Penetrating, detailed, and very readable. . . . A splendid biography." --Wall Street Journal
Few figures in American history have held as many roles in public life as John Quincy Adams. The son of John Adams, he was a brilliant ambassador and secretary of state, a frustrated president,...
by Richard Brookhiser
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
In 1799, at the end of George Washington's long life and illustrious career, the politician Henry Lee eulogized him as: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Esteemed historian Richard Brookhiser now adds to this list, First in leadership,” examining the...
There Is No Alternative
Why Margaret Thatcher Matters
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Great Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline-ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for global irrelevance. Three decades later, it is the richest and most influential country in Europe, and Margaret Thatcher is the reason. The preternaturally determined Thatcher...
What Would the Founders Do?
Our Questions, Their Answers
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
What would George Washington do about weapons of mass destruction? How would Benjamin Franklin feel about unwed mothers? What would Alexander Hamilton think about minorities in the military? Examining a host of issues from terrorism to women's rights, acclaimed historian Richard Brookhiser reveals...