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Volcker
The Triumph of Persistence
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Over the course of nearly half a century, five American presidents-three Democrats and two Republicans-have relied on the financial acumen, and the integrity, of Paul A. Volcker. During his tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, when he battled the Great Inflation of the 1970s, Volcker did...
The Profession of Violence
The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, LEGEND, starring Tom Hardy.
Reggie and Ronald Kray ruled London's gangland during the 1960s with a ruthlessness and viciousness that shocks even now. Building an empire of organised crime such as nobody has done...
Facades
Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
First published in 1978 Façades details the lives of three of the twentieth century's most intriguing literary figures: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Aristocrats emanating from a privileged but loveless youth, they moulded the scene of the English avant-garde throughout the 1920s and in...
by John Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
John Pearson knows more about the Krays than anyone alive. Legend, starring Tom Hardy, was based on his book The Profession of Violence and it was Pearson who exposed the Boothby connection in 1994. In 1967 the twins asked Pearson to write their biography. He remained a confidant of the family and...
Blood Royal
The Story of the Spencers and the Royals
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture, comes a history of Lady Diana's family, the Spencers, a dynasty that rose from sheep farmers to the ranks of upper aristocracy and, finally, royalty.
When Lady Diana Spencer married the Prince of Wales in 1981, very...
by John Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Growing up in the supreme moral rigour of Queen Victoria's court, young Bertie was always going to find it hard to live up to his parents' expectation. He was far from a brilliant student, and though charming, his carnal inclinations were widely rumoured to have sped up his Father's decline, with...
Chasing the Scream
The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
The New York Times Bestseller
The Book Behind the Viral TED Talk
For the first time, the startling full story of the disastrous war on drugs--propelled by moving human stories, revolutionary insight into addiction, and fearless international reporting.
What if everything you think you...
The Power Makers
Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Maury Klein is one of America's most acclaimed historians of business and society. In The Power Makers, he offers an epic narrative of his greatest subject yet - the "power revolution" that transformed American life in the course of the nineteenth century. The steam engine; the incandescent...
Edison
The Man Who Made the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
It is almost a century since Thomas Alva Edison, the world's greatest inventor, gave the world electric light - and exactly one hundred years since he built the first successful phonograph (forerunner of the gramophone). The man who declared that "genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent...
The Hundred Dresses
The Most Iconic Styles of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The dress is the last bit of femininity in our closets; it's the only item of clothing which (most) men and women don't share. Wearing a dress is a powerful way for women to express themselves--and every style conveys a different message. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred...
High Noon
The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
**From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Searchers, the revelatory story behind the classic movie High Noon and the toxic political climate in which it was created.
It's one of the most revered movies of Hollywood's golden era. Starring screen legend Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in...
Steam Titans
Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Winner of the Brewington Book Prize for Maritime History
The story of the epic contest between shipping magnates Samuel Cunard and Edward Collins for mid-19th century control of the Atlantic.
Between 1815 and the American Civil War, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution...
More Powerful Than Dynamite
Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
In the year that saw the start of World War I, the United States was itself on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. "There was blood in the air that year," a witness later recalled, "there truly...
Committed
Men Tell Stories of Love, Commitment, and Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
"Committed gives women a rare insight into what the other half really thinks."-Candace Bushnell
In these original essays, seventeen celebrated authors give a private tour of the male psyche and discuss the journey to lasting love. Exploring aspects of themselves that they've never revealed...