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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 ...

“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...

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* 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...

...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 ...

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 ...

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 :...

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...

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

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...

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...

Chapter 1. The Accusation -- Chapter 2. Blood Libel In The Modern World -- Chapter 3. Who Done It : The Immigrants? -- Chapter 4. The Massena Case And Ameri...

The emergence of the lower houses of assembly is a major theme in American history: their quest for power became the most significant single feature of poli...

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller. The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulit...

The United States Has Been Epitomized As A Land Of Opportunity, Where Hard Work And Skill Can Bring Personal Success And Economic Well-being. The American D...

For the first time, a minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan On March 30, 1981, President Reagan walked out of a hotel in...

Barry Goldwater is widely regarded as one of the most prominent and controversial politicians of our century, a man whose influence on America conservatism ...

A Memoir By A Uss Arizona Survivor Describes His Experience Of The Attacks That Left Him With Burns Over More Than Sixty-five Percent Of His Body, His Resol...

While the fathers were off founding the country, what were the women doing? Running their husband s businesses, raising their children plus providing polit...

As a young speechwriter in the Reagan White House, Peter Robinson was responsible for the celebrated "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech. He was a...

In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen...

A groundbreaking and accessible history of heaven—from the earliest biblical conceptions of the afterlife to the theologians who frame our understandings ...

Originally published in 1995 to huge critical acclaim and a finalist for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction, Madeleine Blais’s In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle...

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scub...

Soon to be a major motion picture from the director of The Hangover starring Jonah Hill, the page-turning, behind-closed-doors account of how three kids fro...

A Non-fiction Analysis Of The Persian Gulf War And The Nature Of War And Command As Seen Through The Actions Of General Frederick M. Franks, Jr., Commander ...

A Portrait Of Washington, D.c. During The Days Of World War Ii. Waiting -- The Battle For Washington -- Bureaucracies At War -- Locked In Deadly Struggle .....