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"Tubbs' connection to these women is palpable on the page -- as both a mother and a scholar of the impact Black motherhood has had on America. Through Tub...

The Suppressed Truth About the Assassination of Abraham LincolnCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Historical United StatesGeneral

An invaluable history of an extraordinary presidency, and the chronicle of a generation’s political odyssey When in 1997 Bill Clinton appointed Sidney...

A Pickpocket's Tale Is A Fascinating True-crime Story. Gilfoyle Uses George Appo's Unpublished Memoirs To Re-create The World Of The Nineteenth-century Crim...

From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan so beloved and so transf...

this Is A Charming Portrait Of Childhood In The Russian Market Town Where The Great Painter And His Wife Grew Up. Bella's Warm, Humorous Stories Of Her Piou...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and f...

Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields—a chilling tr...

From His Teenage Years In Provincial Russia To His Premature Death In 1904, Anton Chekhov Wrote Thousands Of Letters To A Wide Range Of Correspondents. This...

Winner of the Lincoln Prize This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln’s mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency ...

In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westi...

Warning!* This book contains the following: Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives Cultivation of illegal crops Impressionable...

Traces The Story Of Former Slaves Thornton And Lucie Blackburn, Who Launched A Daring Escape From Their Slave Masters In 1831 And Became The Subjects Of A L...

Seabiscuit Was One Of The Most Electrifying And Popular Attractions In Sports History And The Single Biggest Newsmaker In The World In 1938, Receiving More ...

He read the classics but he adored pulp science fiction. He had no academic credentials but he was a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Ae...

in This Brilliantly Illuminating Group Portrait Of The Men Who Came To Be Known As The Founding Fathers, The Incomparable Gordon Wood Has Written A Book T...

An ordinary man's inspiring journey toward a simpler, more meaningful life. In 2008, average American family man Dave Bruno decided to unhook himself fr...

This Volume Is The First Fully Illustrated Book About Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) And The Early Years Of The Telephone - An Invention That Transformed...

Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first ...

Pat Buchanan, Bestselling Author And Former Senior Adviser To President Richard Nixon In The White House, For The First Time Describes His Years Advising Th...

Hillbilly Elegy Is A Passionate And Personal Analysis Of A Culture In Crisis--that Of Poor, White Americans. The Disintegration Of This Group, A Process Tha...

One Of The Most Popular Works Of American Literature, This Charming Self-portrait Has Been Translated Into Nearly Every Language. It Covers Franklin's Life ...

The Final Days is the classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon's dramatic last months as president. Moment by moment, Bernstein and Woodward por...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed ...

The only daughter of the gangster legend Meyer Lansky opens up about her life as a wild child of the 1950s, her heartbreak and tragedy-- including the insan...

In The Tenth Book In The Multimillion-selling Killing Series, Bill O’reilly And Martin Dugard Take On Their Most Controversial Subject Yet: The Mob. Killi...

“Not since I read Erik Larson’s Dead Wake have I had such an edge-of-my-seat immersion into historical events. . . . No study of Alexander Hamilton wou...

In This Brilliant Biography, Jon Meacham, The Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, Chronicles The Life Of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing On President Bush's ...

The Real Story Of John Wayne Gacy-- By The Man Who Helped Catch Him He was a model citizen. A hospital volunteer. And one of the most sadistic serial kill...

A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.Founder of a dynasty, builder of the ori...

In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature ...

The first volume of Shelby Foote's tremendous narrative of the Civil War was greeted enthusiastically by critics and readers alike (see back of jacket for ...

A gripping portrait of the first president of the United States from the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspire...

Leadership: The Ultimate Guide Few Americans have observed the ups and downs of presidential leadership more closely over the past thirty years — from Nix...

The Woman At The Center Of The Bush Administration's Cia Leak Scandal Breaks Her Silence As She Describes Her Role As An Undercover Cia Operative, Her Train...

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the li...

Draws On New Scholarship To Present A Biography Of Isabella Of Castile, The Controversial Queen Of Spain Who Sponsored Christopher Columbus' Journey To The ...

Chronicles the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the Wright brothers, sharing insights into the disadvantages that challenged their lives and their mech...

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the he...

Draws On Recently Declassified Documents To Chronicle One Of The Most Disastrous Presidencies In U.s. History, Presenting A Portrait Of A Brilliant Man Over...

Pulitzer Prize Winnerover Five Months On The New York Times Bestseller List tremendously Compelling, Somehow Dramatic And Intimate At The Same Time-the Ne...

The life stories appearing in this volume come from communities where storytelling provides a customary framework for discussing the past. Angela Sidney, Ki...

Abraham Lincoln Towers Above The Others Who Have Held The Office Of President--the Pillar Of Strength Whose Words Bound Up The Nation's Wounds. His Presiden...

Tom Piazza’s sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in despe...

New York Times BestsellerNow a major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and nominated for four Academy Awards: the heartbreaking true stor...

“makes A Reader Feel Like A Time Traveler Plopped Down Among Men Who Were By Turns Vicious And Visionary.”—the Christian Science Monitor the Modern Ame...

The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world—-and back in the nineteenth century, a great man held that office. William Lee...

Lee Krasner, Best Known As Jackson Pollock's Wife, Reveals A Woman Who Was A Firebrand And Trailblazer For Women's Rights, Who Also Led A Fascinating Life, ...