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Ever After
A Father's True Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
In August of 1988, heavy black smoke engulfed an Oregon highway, causing a massive 23-car pileup that claimed the lives of novelist William Wharton's 36-year-old daughter, her husband, and their two infant daughters. They'd been victims of field burning, a routine agricultural practice, and were burned...
Supreme Commander
MacArthur's Triumph in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Seymour Morris Jr. combines political history, military biography, and business management to tell the story of General Douglas MacArthur's tremendous success in rebuilding Japan after World War II in Supreme Commander, a lively, in-depth work of biographical history complementary to The Generals,...
Hubris
The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
“EMINENTLY PROVOCATIVE AND READABLE.”—THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation,...
Francis I
The Maker of Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch—Francis I—who turned France into a great nation.
Catherine de Medici’s father-in-law,...
Knowing Mandela
A Personal Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Equal parts freedom fighter and statesman, Nelson Mandela bestrode the world stage for the past three decades, building a legacy that places him in the pantheon of history's most exemplary leaders.
As a foreign correspondent based in South Africa, author John Carlin had unique access to Mandela...
Blood and Sand
Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956—a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony under the heroic...
by Paul Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
A leading historian and bestselling author re-creates the growth, decline, and legacy of 3,000 Years of Egyptian civilization with an authoritative text splendidly illustrated with 150 illustrations in full color.
Ancient Egypt, with its legacy of pyramids, pharaohs and sphinxes, is a land...
Making History
The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990: An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
When Making History was first published in 1992, the acclaimed oral historian Studs Terkel called it, “One of the definitive works on gay life.” Novelist Armistead Maupin said that author “Eric Marcus not only writes with grace and clarity but makes it look so easy—the ultimate measure of...
The Magical Stranger
A Son's Journey into His Father's Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The Magical Stranger is a moving story of love and sacrifice, fathers and sons, heroism and duty, soldiers and the families they leave behind.
On November 28, 1979, squadron commander and Navy pilot Peter Rodrick died when his plane crashed in the Indian Ocean, leaving behind a devastated wife,...
Catullus' Bedspread
The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A vivid narrative that recreates the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first modern” poet, and follows a young man’s journey through a world filled with all the indulgences and sexual excesses of the time, from doomed love affairs to shrewd political maneuvering and backstabbing—an accessible,...
9 Rules of Engagement
A Military Brat's Guide to Life and Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
The Emmy award-winning news anchor of Outnumbered Overtime with Harris Faulkner and co-host of the talk show Outnumbered shares the lessons she learned growing up in a military family paying homage to the military ideals that shaped her and showing how everyone can benefit from bringing the wisdom...
Ronald Reagan: 100 Years
Official Centennial Edition from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Ronald Reagan: 100 Years is the official centennial publication from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. Featuring archival photographs of the Reagan family along with insightful text, this book is the ultimate commemorative edition to mark the one hundredth anniversary of President Reagan’s...
First in Line
Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world—the vice presidents of the modern era—from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.
Vice presidents occupy...
The Last Republicans
Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
A groundbreaking look at the lives of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the most consequential father-son pair in American history, often in their own words.
In this endearing, illuminating work, presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove tracks the two Bush presidents from their formative...