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The Majesty of the Law
Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this remarkable book, a national bestseller in hardcover, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history,...
Ghost
Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
For decades, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, has secretly been on the front lines in the fight to keep Americans safe around the world. Now, in this hard-hitting memoir, Burton emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished,...
The Underground City
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Back in print after nearly fifty years–the acclaimed fiction debut of novelist H. L. Humes, co-founder of The Paris Review
“Immensely intelligent and energetic, intensely dramatic and melodramatic, heroically overwritten yet sharp, insightful, and precise, The Underground City is an astonishing...
The Wild Frontier
Atrocities During the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
The real story of the ordeal experienced by both settlers and Indians during the Europeans' great migration west across America, from the colonies to California, has been almost completely eliminated from the histories we now read. In truth, it was a horrifying and appalling experience. Nothing like...
Save the Males
Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
With piercing wit and perceptive analysis, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Kathleen Parker explores how men, maleness, and fatherhood have been under siege in American culture for decades. She argues that the feminist movement veered off course from its original aim of helping women achieve equality...
The Marne, 1914
The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
For the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars and the world. With exclusive information based on newly unearthed documents, Holger H. Herwig...
In the Ruins of Empire
The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
The New York Times said of Ronald H. Spector’s classic account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, “No future book on the Pacific War will be written without paying due tribute to Eagle Against the Sun.” Now Spector has returned with a book that is even more revealing....
Men of War
The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In the grand tradition of John Keegan’s enduring classic The Face of Battle comes a searing, unforgettable chronicle of war through the eyes of the American soldiers who fought in three of our most iconic battles: Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima.
This is not a book about how great generals...
by Norman Mailer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer—the literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfiction—wrote the most wide-ranging, far-seeing chronicle of the Apollo 11 mission. A classic chronicle of America’s...
by Norman Mailer
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
A genuine literary event—an illuminating collection of correspondence from one of the most acclaimed American writers of all time
Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more than 30 novels, essay collections, and nonfiction books. Yet nowhere was he more prolific—or...
Stealing God's Thunder
Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
“We forget, living in this era of heavily patented research and closely guarded results, how wonderfully exciting the scientific world used to be. In Stealing God’s Thunder, the story of Benjamin Franklin’s invention of the lightening rod and the resulting consequences, that sense of wonder...
Founding Faith
Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the Founders were secular or Deist and that the First Amendment was designed...
American Patriots
The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2001
American Patriots is one of the great untold stories in American history. There have been books on individual black soldiers, but this is the first to tell the full story of the black American military experience, starting with the Revolution and culminating with Desert Storm.
The best histories...
by Hedrick Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Russians, a “lively and provocative”* analysis of the Soviet Union in its twilight years.
*The New York Times Book Review
Even from afar, the transformation in the Soviet Union held a special fascination...