A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history and produced horrors undreamed of by the young men who cheerfully volunteered for a war that was supposed to be over by Christmas.
It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa.
Get the lowdown on America's Bloodiest Warthe Civil Warwith this essential guide to 101 interesting and unexpected facts about this defining event in US history.
The expose that reveals "e;a prostitution ring, heavy CIA involvement, spying on the White House as well as on the Democrats, and plots within plots"e; (The Washington Post)Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan then the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade in the vice-driven underbelly of the nation's capital.
A panoramic history of the Jewish American South, from European colonization to todayIn 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to ';Jews, heathens, and other dissenters,' ushering in an era that would see Jews settle in cities and towns throughout what would become the Confederate States.
This nineteenth-century novel by the author of Rip Van Winkle offers a satirical history of New York, from the creation of the world to the fall of New Amsterdam.
This "e;warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative"e; memoir of a woman homesteader in early twentieth-century Wyoming inspired the acclaimed film Heartland (The Wall Street Journal).
Three volumes of BBC broadcasts about the US from the New York Times-bestselling author, host of Masterpiece Theater, and "e;international treasure"e; (Booklist).
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author shares her rough journey to adulthood in a book that "e;should be read by every American"e; (Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette).
Edgar Award Finalist: This "e;sensational"e; and "e;absolutely compelling"e; true crime tale finally answers the question: Who really killed the Lindbergh baby?
A "e;blistering expose"e; of the USA's secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction (Publishers Weekly).
The "e;fascinating, hair-raising, suspenseful"e; account of a little boy abducted in broad daylight and the desperate manhunt to find him (The New York Times Book Review).
New York Times Bestseller: The "e;gripping"e; true story of a beautiful Texas socialite, her ambitious husband, and a string of mysterious deaths (Los Angeles Times).
With a new preface: An "e;irreverent [and] entertaining"e; portrait of JFK, the Camelot mystique, and the politics of charisma (The Christian Science Monitor).
With a new preface: A "e;stunning"e; analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg (The New York Times Book Review).
New York Times Bestseller: A "e;remarkable and evenhanded study of Ronald Reagan"e; from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg (The New York Times).
An account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking.
A New York Times-bestselling author's "e;lively"e; account of a family of famous actors-who became notorious after the assassination of President Lincoln (The New Yorker).
#1 New York Times Bestseller: The true story behind Netflix's Society of the Snow-A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes.
The New York Times-bestselling history of the first half of the twentieth century-five decades that transformed America-from the author of Only Yesterday.
Captured by hostile natives, a Puritan woman in colonial New England must rely on her faith to surviveWhen Mary Rowlandson awoke on February 10, 1675, the village of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was already on fire.
Tormented by her master, a young mother plots a daring escape, in this courageous and captivating slave narrativeWhen her mother dies, six-year-old slave girl Linda Brent is sent to the big house, where she grows up serving a gentle mistress who teaches her to read and write.
The New York Times-bestselling biography of the South's most brilliant and audacious military commander: "e;Completely fascinating"e; (Kirkus Reviews).
A New York Times-bestselling author's account of the devastating military campaign that broke the Confederacy's back in the last months of the Civil War.
A panoramic and spellbinding history of the last days of the Confederacy and the flight, capture, and imprisonment of Jefferson DavisIn April 1865, Richmond fell to the Union army and Gen.
A "e;brilliant"e; look at America's sixteenth president by the New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln (American Historical Review).
