Random House Publishing Group: 10573 books
by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Stephen C. Schlesinger
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
This extraordinary collection gathers the never-before-seen correspondence of a true American original—the acclaimed historian and lion of the liberal establishment, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
An advisor to presidents, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and tireless champion of progressive government,...
by William D. Cohan
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
A timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible—albeit flawed—engines that power our ideas, and should be made to work better for all of us
Maybe you think the banks should be broken up and the bankers should be held accountable for the financial crisis...
American Daughter
Discovering My Mother
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
In this beautifully crafted book, Elizabeth Kendall tells the story of a family, of a passionate attachment between a mother and a daughter and the sudden tragedy that tears it apart. American Daughter is also a brilliant portrait of wellborn women's lives in cities and towns in the post-World War...
The Spooky Art
Thoughts on Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2003
“Writing is spooky,” according to Norman Mailer. “There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those divine words.” In The Spooky Art, Mailer discusses with signature candor the rewards and trials...
Once Upon a Secret
My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With the benefit of hindsight and good old-fashioned maturity, [Mimi Alford] writes not just about the secret, but the corrosive effect of keeping that secret. . . . You can’t help liking her, or her elegant and thoroughly good-natured book.”—The Spectator
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by Maya Angelou
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
In this incredible second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves.
by Maya Angelou
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
See the difference, read Maya Angelou in Large Print
* About Large Print
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This wise book is the wonderful continuation of the bestselling Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now.
Even the Stars Look Lonesome...
Conquerors
How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In Conquerors, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers—a tactical advantage no other country could match....
How to Write Like Tolstoy
A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
For anyone who has ever identified with a hero or heroine, been seduced by a strong opening sentence, or been powerfully moved by a story’s end, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world’s most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen...
Letters to a Young Writer
Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
**From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer—and so much more than that.
Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the...
Roosevelt's Secret War
FDR and World War II Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Despite all that has already been written on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Persico has uncovered a hitherto overlooked dimension of FDR's wartime leadership: his involvement in intelligence and espionage operations.
Roosevelt's Secret War is crowded with remarkable revelations:
-FDR wanted...
Revolutionary
George Washington at War
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
From an acclaimed military historian, a bold reappraisal of young George Washington, an ambitious if reckless soldier destined to become the legendary general who took on the British and, through his leadership, defined the American character
How did George Washington become an American icon?...
Through the Perilous Fight
Six Weeks That Saved the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In a rousing account of one of the critical turning points in American history, Through the Perilous Fight tells the gripping story of the burning of Washington and the improbable last stand at Baltimore that helped save the nation and inspired its National Anthem.
In the summer of 1814, the...
Little Green Men
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
In 1994, Christopher Buckley published one of the most acclaimed and successful comic novels of the decade, Thank You for Smoking. Now Buckley returns to the strange land of Washington, D.C., in Little Green Men, a millennial comedy of manners about aliens and pundits . . . and how much they have...