Simon Schuster: 4797 books
by Richard Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
For many years before he became President, Richard Nixon's decisions vitally affected the well-being of the nation. Six of those decisions significantly shaped the man who would later become the 37th President of the United States.
Six Crises is a close-up look at this dynamic man, recalling...
by Jean Edward Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a “comprehensive and compelling” (The New York Times) life of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself—most disastrously in invading...
A Self-Made Man
The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincoln—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliation—“engaging and informative and…thought-provoking” (The Christian Science Monitor).
From his youth as...
Where They Stand
The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
The author of the acclaimed biography of President James Polk, A Country of Vast Designs, offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing “Rating the Presidents,” by pitching historians’ views and subsequent experts’ polls against the judgment and votes of the presidents’ own contemporaries.
Merry...
The Speechwriter
A Brief Education in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Barton Swaim was struggling to find an academic job—he’d recently received a PhD in English—when he sent his resume to Mark Sanford, the conservative and controversial governor of South Carolina. He thought he could improve the governor’s writing and speeches.
On the surface, this is...
The Secret Man
The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 -- remained hidden for 33 years. Now, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W....
The Gettysburg Gospel
The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2006
The words Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg comprise perhaps the most famous speech in history. It has been quoted by popes, presidents, prime ministers, and revolutionaries around the world. From "Four score and seven years ago..."...
Heart of a Patriot
How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
By the time he had reached middle age, Max Cleland thought he had nothing to live for. Vietnam had left him a triple amputee. He had lost his seat in the U.S. Senate, and in the grip of depression he had lost his fiancée, too. But instead of giving up, Cleland discovered that he has what it takes...
Her Little Majesty
The Life of Queen Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A “vivid” (Kirkus Reviews) and multilayered biography of Queen Victoria chronicling the life of the longest-reigning British monarch who ruled for sixty-four years, offering an intimate portrait of a woman who after losing her beloved husband went on to fulfill her duties as mother, grandmother, and queen of England.
Vida Total
Mi Historia Increíble
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2012
LA MEJOR HISTORIA DE INMIGRACIÓN DE NUESTROS TIEMPOS
Su historia es única, divertida, y en estas páginas la cuenta de manera brillante.
Nació durante un año de hambruna en un pequeño pueblo de Austria, hijo de un jefe de policía muy austero. Soñaba con mudarse a los Estados Unidos...
Beyond the White House
Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
The president’s personal and passionate account of his twenty-five years in the service of humanitarian effort that won him the Nobel Peace Prize was received with the admiring respect of reviewers and readers and it will stand as the record of his brilliant post-presidential career.
This...
Closest Companion
The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
For the first time in paperback, the highly acclaimed, remarkably intimate, and surprisingly revealing secret diary of the woman who spent more private time with FDR than any other person during his years in the White house. At once a love story and a major contribution to history, it offers dramatic...
Faith
A Journey For All
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
In this powerful and personal reflection, a New York Times bestseller, President Jimmy Carter contemplates how faith has sustained him in happiness and disappointment and considers how we may find it in our own lives.
All his life, President Jimmy Carter has been a courageous exemplar of faith....
The Whiskey Rebellion
George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Fro
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A gripping and sensational tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion uncovers the radical eighteenth-century people’s movement, long ignored by historians, that contributed decisively to the establishment of federal authority.
In 1791, on the frontier of western Pennsylvania,...