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Death of Innocence
The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
The mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement—with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American, Emmett Till, was visiting family in Mississippi when he...
by Jean Edward Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man" - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life...
Faith of My Fathers
A Family Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2000
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Senator John McCain’s deeply moving memoir is the story of three generations of warriors and the ways that sons are shaped and enriched by their fathers.
John McCain’s grandfather, a four-star admiral and one of the navy’s greatest commanders, led the strongest...
General George Washington
A Military Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Much has been written in the past two centuries about George Washington the statesman and “father of his country.” Less often discussed is Washington’s military career, including his exploits as a young officer and his performance as the Revolutionary War commander in chief. Now, in a revealing...
I Love You, Ronnie
The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2001
No matter what else was going on in his life or where he was—travelling to make movies for G.E., in the California governor's office, at the White House, or on Air Force One, and sometimes even from across the room—Ronald Reagan wrote letters to Nancy Reagan, to express his love, thoughts, and...
American Brutus
John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fiery end in a Virginia tobacco barn. In the national hysteria that followed, eight others were arrested...
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...
Roosevelt's Centurions
FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
“FDR’s centurions were my heroes and guides. Now Joe Persico has written the best account of those leaders I've ever read.”—Colin L. Powell
All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In Roosevelt’s Centurions, distinguished historian Joseph...
The Turnaround
How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
When Bill Bratton was sworn in as New York City's police commissioner in 1994, he made what many considered a bold promise: The NYPD would fight crime in every borough...and win. It seemed foolhardy; even everybody knows you can't win the war on crime. But Bratton delivered. In an extraordinary twenty-seven...
by Li Zhi-Sui
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
“The most revealing book ever published on Mao, perhaps on any dictator in history.”—Professor Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University
From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in daily—and increasingly...
Conscience of a Conservative
A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A thoughtful defense of traditional conservatism and a thorough assault on the way Donald Trump is betraying it.”—David Brooks, in his New York Times column
In a bold act of conscience, Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing...
On His Own Terms
A Life of Nelson Rockefeller
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE BOSTON GLOBE, BOOKLIST, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS • From acclaimed historian Richard Norton Smith comes the definitive life of an American icon: Nelson Rockefeller—one of the most complex and compelling figures of the twentieth century.
Fourteen years...
Wildflower
An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
With compassion and an unswerving regard for the truth, veteran journalist Mark Seal lays bare the deeply moving, inspirational story of Joan Root, a dedicated environmentalist and Oscar-nominated wildlife filmmaker. He covers her early days in Kenya as a shy young woman with an almost uncanny ability...