David : 35381 books
The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
“Far and away the best book written about Senator Kennedy” from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author (The New York Times).
Structured around the 1968 Democratic presidential campaign, The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy offers an in-depth exploration of Robert...
by Lord David Cecil
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Modern Library’s 100th best non-fiction book of all time, and John F. Kennedy’s favourite book.
A masterful biography of the life of Lord Melbourne – Queen Victoria’s Prime Minister and devoted mentor, and one of England’s most controversial statesmen – whose turbulent marriage...
Rising Star
The Making of Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
New York Times Bestseller
One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2017
Rising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the...
Dead Wrong
Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
For years, the government has put out hits on people that they found “expendable,” or who they felt were “talking too much,” covering up their assassinations with drug overdoses and mysterious suicides. In Dead Wrong, a study of the scientific and forensic facts of various Government cover-ups,...
An Improbable Friendship
The Remarkable Lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and Their Forty-Year Peace Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
An Improbable Friendship is the dual biography of Israeli Ruth Dayan, now ninety-eight, who was Moshe Dayan’s wife for thirty-seven years, and Palestinian journalist Raymonda Tawil, Yasser Arafat’s mother-in-law, now seventy-four. It reveals for the first time the two women’s surprising and...
Cancerland
A Medical Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
An Amazon Best of the Month Book
"For all the insight he offers into the hard science and thorny logistics of studying cancer, Dr. Scadden’s most moving passages consider the effect of the disease on the people who suffer from it and those who care for them." —The Wall Street...
by David Beers
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
In Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America’s Fall from Grace, award-winner David Beers offers a powerful, personal vision of the rise and fall of the American middle class. Here is a dazzling literary chronicle of a family, a people, and a nation: the “blue sky tribe” of ever-optimistic middle-class...
The Players Ball
A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
“An engrossing microcosm of the internet's Wild West years” (Kirkus Reviews), award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the website Sex.com, resulting in an all-out war for control for what still...
Two Sides of the Moon
Our Story of the Cold War Space Race
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Growing up on either side of the Iron Curtain, David Scott and Alexei Leonov experienced very different childhoods but shared the same dream to fly.
Excelling in every area of mental and physical agility, Scott and Leonov became elite fighter pilots and were chosen by their countries' burgeoning...
by David Wilkerson, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1986
The dramatic and inspiring true story of a small town minister called to help inner city kids everyone else believed were beyond hope...
David Wilkerson was just a young preacher in the Pennsylvania hills when he was stunned by a new calling from God: go to New York City to speak to seven young...
Tyndale
The Man Who Gave God an English Voice
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
It was an outlawed book, a text so dangerous “it could only be countered by the most vicious burnings, of books and men and women.” But what book could incite such violence and bloodshed? The year is 1526. It is the age of Henry VIII and his tragic Anne Boleyn, of Martin Luther and Thomas More....
The Pope Who Would Be King
The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Pope and Mussolini tells the story of the bloody revolution that stripped the pope of political power and signaled the birth of modern Europe.
“[David I.] Kertzer’s brilliant treatment of the crisis in the papacy between 1846 and 1850 reads like...
Thanks, Obama
My Hopey, Changey White House Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An Esquire Best Book of 2017
Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? Former Obama speechwriter David Litt does. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years – and charts a path forward...
By an Unfamiliar Path
The Story of David and Arlene Peters
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1994
By an Unfamiliar Path is about David and Arlene Peters—competent, dedicated and effective missionaries whose mininstry has taken them from the primitive Paez Indian tribe in Colombia, to the exciting Bogota Encounter Church, to the third largest city in the world—Sao Paulo, Brazil, and finally...