Random House Publishing Group: 10573 books
Boom!
Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he...
The Loudest Voice in the Room
How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A revelatory journey inside the world of Fox News and Roger Ailes—the brash, sometimes combative network head who helped fuel the rise of Donald Trump
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A SHOWTIME LIMITED SERIES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
When Rupert Murdoch...
We Do Our Part
Toward a Fairer and More Equal America
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Charles Peters tells the story of “how Democrats lost their way—and how they can find it again” (The Washington Post) in a book “full of vivid, funny, often touching anecdotes” (The Atlantic).
“We Do Our Part” was the slogan of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s National Recovery...
by Timothy Crouse
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Cheap booze. Flying fleshpots. Lack of sleep. Endless spin. Lying pols.
Just a few of the snares lying in wait for the reporters who covered the 1972 presidential election. Traveling with the press pack from the June primaries to the big night in November, Rolling Stone reporter Timothy Crouse...
Hard Feelings
Reporting on the Pols, the Press, the People and the City
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
One of America’s leading reporters collects his most important, entertaining, and enlightening articles, explaining how and why he wrote them.
Hard Feelings represents more than five years of Ken Auletta’s work for The Village Voice, New York magazine, the Daily News, Esquire, and The New Yorker....
The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law
The One-Stop Legal Resource for Conducting Business Online
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2002
Advance praise for The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law
“I read this book from cover to cover. The examples of case law are of enormous illustrative value. Some of them will raise your blood pressure (well, mine went up several notches, anyway). Well worth the time to read!”
—Vint Cerf,...
The Spark
A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became a...
Becoming Nicole
The Transformation of an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all.
Nicole appears...
Up from Zero
Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
In Up from Zero, Paul Goldberger, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the inside story of the quest to rebuild one of the most important symbolic sites in the world, the sixteen acres where the towers of the former World Trade Center stood. A story of power, politics, architecture, community, and...
No Way To Treat a First Lady
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Elizabeth Tyler MacMann, the ambitious First Lady of the United States (and known in the tabloids as “Lady Bethmac”), is on trial for the death of her philandering husband, and the only man who can save her is the boyfriend she jilted in law school—now...
Casting a Spell
The Bamboo Fly Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Thirty-five million Americans–one in eight–like to go fishing. Fly fishers have always considered themselves the aristocracy of the sport, and a small number of those devotees, a few thousand at most, insist upon using one device in the pursuit of their obsession: a handcrafted split-bamboo fly...
The Chip
How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Barely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world’s brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans....
Lives of Moral Leadership
Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston...
The New Geography
How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2002
In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The New Geography, acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes, and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live and work in the decades to come, and why. He examines...