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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Tony Horwitz · Penguin Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the American South in the 1850s, as he too searches for common ground in a dangerously riven nation.On the eve of the Civil War, an up-and-coming newspaper, the New York Times, sent a young... |
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Sacred Spaces: The Awe-Inspiring Architecture of Churches and Cathedrals
Guillaume de Laubier · Abrams
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From St. Peter's Basilica in Rome to Notre-Dame in Paris, Christian churches represent some of our most significant architectural achievements, designed to evoke wonder and awe. Offering unprecedented access to a collection of revered religious landmarks, photographer Guillaume de Laubier... |
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Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II
James Holland · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. Their goal: to smash the main factories and production centers of the Luftwaffe while also drawing German planes into... |
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
Ramachandra Guha · Knopf
Pages: 688
Format: Hardcover
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The second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in world history.This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival... |
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor
Evan Thomas · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives - by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas."She's... |
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Casey Cep · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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In Furious Hours, Casey Cep unravels the mystery surrounding Harper Lee's first and only work of nonfiction, and the shocking true crimes at the center of it"A triumph on every level . . . Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce... |
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
Deborah Cadbury · PublicAffairs
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's grandchildren numbered over thirty, and to maintain and increase British royal power,... |
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
David McCullough · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story - the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As... |
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The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
Julius S. Scott · Verso
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary eraThe Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official... |
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
Tyler Kepner · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of todayThe baseball is an amazing... |
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