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From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles—just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Gran...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times Best...

The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in AmericaThe National Footba...

Coastal cuisine from Asbury Park to Cape May, with 50 recipes from your favorite beachside restaurants and farm-fresh New Jersey ingredients for a perfect ...

Simmering racial tensions inflamed by discriminatory punitive measures sparked a violent confrontation aboard the USS Kitty Hawk while it was engaged in air...

On December 3. 1999, the call crackled in to the men of Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless c...

As befits the Life brand, and the associations many Americans have with it, One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001 by Life Magazine is not just a...

For Those Who Could Read Between The Lines, The Censored News Out Of China Was Terrifying. But The President Insisted There Was Nothing To Worry About.Categ...

this Is The Story Of The Greatest Con In Financial History-it Has Commanded The Attention Of The Entire World From The Day The News Broke On December 11, ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A celebration of American history through the music that helped to shape a nation, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and m...

Ben Franklin saved the American Revolution by seducing French Women. A gay love affair between President James Buchanan and Senator William King aided the ...

Integrating All Aspects Of Life, From Politics And Law To The Economy And Culture, Empire Of Liberty Offers A Marvelous Account Of This Pivotal Era When Ame...

“In December 1776, a small boat delivered an old man to France.” So begins a dazzling narrative account of Benjamin Franklin’s French mission, the most exa...

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in da...

Jedwin Smith. Includes Index.Categories: Science & Math Earth SciencesGeography

* NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Painfully good. The book could have been called, 'Outrageous.' The story Andy Slavitt tells is not just about Trump's monumental ...

A Memoir Of A City, An Industry, And A Dynasty In Decline, And The Story Of A Young Artist's Struggle To Find Her Way Out Of The Ruins. Frances Stroh's Earl...

Nicholas Rogers. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [173]-193) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

...one Of The Most Compelling Accounts Of Slavery And One Of The Most Unique Of The One Hundred Or So Slave Narratives - Mostly Written By Men - Published B...

Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the d...

Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physic...

Join New York Times bestselling author Guy Fieri, host of the hugely popular Food Network show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, as he takes you on a tour of 6...

Philadelphia Stories is a kind of family album. As in their earlier volume, Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940, Miller, Vogel, and Davis...

Now In Paperback, The #1 New York Times Bestselling Chronicle Of The Rise And Fall Of A Legendary American Dynasty, From Cnn Anchor And Journalist Anderson ...

Slapped with a libel suit after an appearance on a talk show, Malachy McCourt crows, "If they could only see me now in the slums of Limerick, a big shot, su...

An On-the-ground History Of Ordinary Americans Who Took To The Streets When Political Issues Became Personal. It Is Widely Believed That Americans Of The 19...

For us to perceive any of the worlds that exist beside our own, not only do we have to covet them but we need to have sufficient energy to seize them. In ...

The Definitive History Of Asian Americans By One Of The Nation's Preeminent Scholars On The Subject. In The Past Fifty Years, Asian Americans Have Helped Ch...

New York Times Bestseller - Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Audible and AmazonIn the spirit of Steve Jobs and Mone...

Us : The City On A Hill -- Them : Heretic, Heathen, And Witch -- The Puritans Become America -- The Wrath Of God In Black And White -- Abolition! -- South :...

The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the es...

A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as amission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outd...

Introduction: The Department Of Amusement -- Nashville Contra Jaws, 1975 -- Born Again In The U.s.a., 1976-80 -- Bad Trips, 1981-82 -- I Ain't Afraid Of No ...

Whether Enemy Or Ally, Demon Or God, The Source Of Satisfaction Or The Root Of All Earthly Troubles, The Penis Has Forced Humanity To Wrestle With Its Endur...

This New York Times Bestselling “deep Dive Into The Terms Of Eight Former Presidents Is Chock-full Of Political Hijinks—and Déjà Vu” (vanity Fair) A...

Using Many Never-reported Facts, Award-winning Writer Anne Hagedorn Auerbach Chronicles The Compelling And Tragic Story Behind The Downfall Of Thoroughbr...

The first book to present the greatest photographs of the Civil War in the three-dimensional format in which they were originally taken and meant to be seen...

In 1975, Charleston voters elected a young attorney and former state lawmaker as the city's new mayor. Joseph Patrick Riley Jr., just 32 at the time, promis...

The Famed Chef Of The Inn At Little Washington Shares 110 Of His Favorite Recipes, Accompanied By An Account Of The Inn's Development From A Farmhouse Kitch...

Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Now, this extraord...

In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows And Mike Wallace Have Written An Epic As Vast And Varied As The City It Chronicles. Drawing On The Work Of Hundreds Of Scholars ...

It's Not Your Father's Working Class Anymore. It's More Female, More Diverse Racially, And It Doesn't Wear Carhartt's And A Hard Hat Anymore. Sleeping Giant...

Recent America is the story of the United States and the American people from the end of World War II to the present. The thickly braided narrative seeks t...

Higher education hails Asian American students as model minorities who face no educational barriers given their purported cultural values of hard work and p...

An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's path...

not Long After Adam Gopnik Returned To New York At The End Of 2000 With His Wife And Two Small Children, They Witnessed One Of The Great And Tragic Events ...

William Goetzmann And Glyndwr Williams ; [cartographic Director, Malcolm Swanston ; Maps Created By Isabelle Lewis And Jacqueline Land]. Cartographers From ...

Today, Bob Greene is a celebrated, nationally-syndicated columnist. In 1964, he was a seventeen-year-old Ohio high school kid. And he kept a diary.It's all...