Henry Holt And Co : 2157 books
by Marla R. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
A richly woven biography of the beloved patriot Betsy Ross, and an enthralling portrait of everyday life in Revolutionary War-era Philadelphia
Betsy Ross and the Making of America is the first comprehensively researched and elegantly written biography of one of America's most captivating figures...
Something Wonderful
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the soundtrack to the American Century
They stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and...
Brief Encounters
Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Dick Cavett is back, sharing his reflections and reminiscences about Hollywood legends, American cultural icons, and the absurdities of everyday life
In Brief Encounters, the legendary talk show host Dick Cavett introduces us to the fascinating characters who have crossed his path, from James...
Gellhorn
A Twentieth-Century Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, whose life provides a unique and thrilling perspective on world history in an extraordinary time
Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international...
The Vanity Fair Diaries
1983 - 1992
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Named one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, Amazon.com, The Guardian, Paste Magazine, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, & Vogue
Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary...
And So It Goes
Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011
The first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature.
In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter, asking...
Left Bank
Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris
In this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately...
Charmed Circle
Gertrude Stein and Company
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Avant-garde Paris comes to life in this "meticulous and loving reconstruction of the period" (The New York Times Book Review)
On almost every Saturday of the first half of the twentieth century, Gertrude Stein would open her door to the likes of Picasso and Matisse, Hemingway and...
The World Broke in Two
Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
A Lambda Literary Awards Finalist
Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR's Book Concierge
A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism
The World...
By the Book
Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Sixty-five of the world's leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to them
Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By...
Coretta
My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
The Washington Post**’s Books to Read in 2017**
USA Today**, “New and Noteworthy”**
Read it Forward, Favorite Reads of January 2017
A Parade Magazine Pick
"This book is distinctly Coretta's story . ....
The Most Wanted Man in China
My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The long-awaited memoir by Fang Lizhi, the celebrated physicist whose clashes with the Chinese regime helped inspire the Tiananmen Square protests
Fang Lizhi was one of the most prominent scientists of the People's Republic of China; he worked on the country's first nuclear program and later...
The Right Answer
How We Can Unify Our Divided Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
The first declared candidate for president in 2020 delivers a passionate call for bipartisan action, entrepreneurial innovation, and a renewed commitment to the American idea
The son of a union electrician and grandson of an immigrant, John K. Delaney grew up believing that anything was possible...
Invisible
The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life
She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York...