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Prepare for Saints
Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when a young Virgil Thomson knocked on Gertrude Stein's door in Paris. Eight years later, their opera Four Saints in Three Acts became a sensation--the longest-running opera in Broadway...
Bible and Sword
England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine and the Middle East, from the ancient world to the twentieth century.
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Historically, the British were...
Genius in Disguise
Harold Ross of The New Yorker
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This hugely entertaining biography of the founding editor of The New Yorker tells the diverting story of how Ross and the brilliant group of people he gathered around him--including James Thurber, Charles Addams, Dorothy Parker, and John O'Hara--devised the formula that made the magazine such a popular and critical success. Photos & cartoons.
Black Edge
Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An essential exposé of our times—a work that reveals the deep rot in our financial system . . . Everyone should read this book.”—David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times and The Economist • Finalist...
by David Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus on external success—“résumé virtues”—and our core principles.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST
With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights...
Waking from the Dream
The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The author of A Stone of Hope, called “one of the three or four most important books on the civil rights movement” by The Atlantic Monthly, turns his attention to the years after Martin Luther King’s assassination—and provides a sweeping history of the struggle to keep the civil rights movement...
Washington's Circle
The Creation of the President
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
History enthusiasts and admirers of Team of Rivals will rejoice in this magisterial account of the extraordinary Americans who served the nation’s first chief executive: Together, they created the presidency for a country disgusted by crowns and the people who would wear them.
In 1789, as...
The Last Days of Night
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A world of invention and skulduggery, populated by the likes of Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla.”—Erik Larson
“A model of superior historical fiction . . . an exciting, sometimes astonishing story.”—The Washington Post
From Graham Moore, the...
Yes, Chef
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
**JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“One of the great culinary stories of our time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times**
It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook...
Blood, Bones & Butter
The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited...
Prince Charles
The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The life and loves of Prince Charles are illuminated in a major new biography from the New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen—perfect for fans of The Crown.
Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British royal family to give us a new...
Ally
My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Includes a new afterword about the Iran nuclear agreement, the 2016 presidential race, and the future of the U.S.-Israel alliance
Michael B. Oren’s memoir of his time as Israel’s ambassador to the United States—a period of transformative change for America...
Asia's Cauldron
The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMES
From Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict.**
Over the last decade,...
Ross Perot
The Man Behind the Myth
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
A portrait of the outsider presidential candidate who captured the American imagination, based on exclusive interviews with Ross Perot, his family, and his business associates
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He’s a brilliant entrepreneur, a robust patriot, a working-class boy who rose to be a business tycoon. But who is...