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Bush
Jean Edward Smith · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 808
Format: Print book
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Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself - most disastrously in invading Iraq - and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious... |
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The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.For thirty years Karr has also taught the form,... |
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Out of Idaho
Regina Calcaterra · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Etched in Sand, Regina Calcaterra pairs with her youngest sister Rosie to tell Rosie s harrowing, yet ultimately triumphant, story of childhood abuse and survival. They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic... |
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Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany
Yascha Mounk · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man’s formative years in a country still struggling with its pastAs a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti-Semitic jokes or talked about... |
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The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Karl Jacoby · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park,... |
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Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story
Robyn Doolittle · Penguin Group
Pages: 367
Format: Hardcover
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His drug and alcohol-fuelled antics made world headlines and engulfed a city in unprecedented controversy. Toronto mayor Rob Ford's personal and political troubles have occupied centre stage in North America's fourth-largest city since news broke that drug dealers were selling a videotape... |
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
Kathryn Harrison · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose voices moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George... |
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There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll
Lisa Robinson · Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From a legendary music journalist with four decades of unprecedented access, an insiders behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll.Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music--including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem,... |
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larson · Crown; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that... |
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Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida
Andrew Furman · University Press of Florida
Format: Book
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“An eloquent testament to the impact of the special places that exist both in the natural world and within our hearts.”—Richard Louv, author of The Nature Principle“Andrew Furman heard the siren call and headed south, where—with the zeal of a new convert—he... |
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Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW, Revised Edition
Alexander Jefferson · Fordham University Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is a rare gift detailing the experience of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, who was one of 32 Tuskegee Airmen from the 332nd Fighter Group to be shot down defending a country that considered them to be second-class citizens. In this vividly detailed, deeply... |
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The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue
Frederick Forsyth · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 332
Format: Print book
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From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever - his own. For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient... |
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The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln A Self-made Man, 1809 - 1854.
Blumenthal Sidney · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius - from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as "a slave,"... |
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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
John Le Carr · Viking
Pages: 310
Format: Print book
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"Recounted with the storytelling élan of a master raconteur - by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesThe New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carré, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy;... |
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