Random House Publishing Group: 10573 books
Good Prose
The Art of Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young...
War Torn
Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
For the first time, nine women who made journalism history talk candidly about their professional and deeply personal experiences as young reporters who lived, worked, and loved surrounded by war. Their stories span a decade of America’s involvement in Vietnam, from the earliest days of the conflict...
by Jon Meacham
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • The Seattle Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Bloomberg Businessweek
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin...
by Edmund Morris
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Although Theodore Rex fully recounts TR’s years in the White House (1901–1909), The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins with a brilliant...
The World as It Is
A Memoir of the Obama White House
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of Barack Obama’s most trusted aides comes a revelatory behind-the-scenes account of his presidency—and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive.
“The closest view of Obama we’re likely to get until he publishes his own memoir.”—George...
A World Made New
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2001
A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again. There was an almost religious intensity to the project, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt under the aegis of the newly formed...
My Turn
The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
The former First Lady discusses her life, the Reagan administration, her shaky relationship with her children and key White House personnel, her husband’s involvement in the Iran-Contra affair, and her bout with cancer.
“During our White House years I said almost nothing about how I really...
The Teapot Dome Scandal
How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Mix hundreds of millions of dollars in petroleum reserves; rapacious oil barons and crooked politicians; under-the-table payoffs; murder, suicide, and blackmail; White House cronyism; and the excesses of the Jazz Age. The result: the granddaddy of all American political scandals, Teapot Dome.
In...
by Jacob Weisberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
This is the book that cracks the code of the Bush presidency. Unstintingly yet compassionately, and with no political ax to grind, Slate editor in chief Jacob Weisberg methodically and objectively examines the family and circle of advisers who played crucial parts in George W. Bush’s historic downfall.
In...
Rasputin
The Saint Who Sinned
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Grigory Efimovich Rasputin came to St. Petersburg from his Siberian cabin in 1903 like a projectile from the medieval past, tattered, black-clad, muttering. By the time he was murdered thirteen years later, the peasant was the "beloved" Friend of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra and...
Skin in the Game
Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
*#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the *author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility
In his most provocative and practical book yet,one of the foremost thinkers of...
The Translator
A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me.
The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends call him David–has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. He is a living...
Fooled by Randomness
The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin...
The Black Swan: Second Edition
The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
**The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin...