Penguin Publishing Group: 18231 books
Alice
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
An entertaining and eye-opening biography of America's most memorable first daughter
From the moment Teddy Roosevelt's outrageous and charming teenage daughter strode into the White House—carrying a snake and dangling a cigarette—the outspoken Alice began to put her imprint on the whole...
Lincoln's Boys
John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
From the author of the forthcoming Building the Great Society (February 2018), an intimate look into Lincoln’s White House and the aftermath of his death, via the lives of his two closest aides
In this timely look into Abraham Lincoln’s White House, and the aftermath of his death, noted...
Floating City
A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic divide is New York’s underground economy, the invisible network of illicit transactions between rich and poor that secretly weaves together the whole...
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
**Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR
“We come to see in FDR the magisterial, central figure in the greatest and richest political tapestry of our nation’s entire history” —Nigel Hamilton, Boston Globe
“Meticulously researched and authoritative” —Douglas...
Journals
1952-2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
From his entrance into Democratic leadership circles in the 1950s through his years in the Kennedy administration and up until his last days, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., was always at the vital center of American politics. For more than half a century, the master historian recorded his experiences and...
Ask Not
The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
2013 is the 50th Anniversary of JFK’s assassination.
A narrative of Kennedy's quest to create a speech that would distill American dreams and empower a new generation, Ask Not is a beautifully detailed account of the inauguration and the weeks preceding it. During a time when America was...
More Than Freedom
Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
A major new narrative account of the long struggle of Northern activists-both black and white, famous and obscure-to establish African Americans as free citizens, from abolitionism through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and its demise
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is generally...
A Call to Service
My Vision for a Better America
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
In more than three decades of public service, from the battlefields of Vietnam to the floor of the U.S. Senate, John Kerry has proven himself to be one of our country’s great statesmen. A leader noted as much for his independence as for his integrity, he has always been inspired by the principles...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1977
Includes A Summary View of the Rights of British America and Notes on the State of Virginia complete; seventy-nine letters; "Response to the Citizens of Albemarle," 1790; "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank," 1791; and many other writings.
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot
A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's rise to power, and the brave North Korean fighter pilot who escaped the prison state and delivered the first MiG-15 into American hands
In The Great Leader and the Fighter...
Reagan
An American Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational.
More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents,...
Falling Into the Fire
A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross’s thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients Montross treats in Falling Into the Fire are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital;...
My Stroke of Insight
A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment
On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed...
Galileo's Middle Finger
Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
**New York Times Book Review
"[S]mart, delightful... a splendidly entertaining education in ethics, activism and science.”
Editors's Choice, New York Times Book Review**
An impassioned defense of intellectual freedom and a clarion call to intellectual responsibility, Galileo’s...