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The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
Austin Reed · Random House,
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer - recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars - sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America. In 2009, scholars at Yale University came across a startling manuscript:... |
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Assassination Vacation
Sarah Vowell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover |
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New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR's "This American Life" Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation's ever-evolving political system and history.Sarah... |
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Warren G. Harding: The American Presidents Series: The 29th President, 1921-1923
John W. Dean · Times Books; 1st edition
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover |
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President Nixon’s former counsel illuminates another presidency marked by scandalWarren G. Harding may be best known as America’s worst president. Scandals plagued him: the Teapot Dome affair, corruption in the Veterans Bureau and the Justice Department, and the posthumous... |
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The Butler: A Witness to History
Wil Haygood · Atria / 37 INK; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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From Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow Wil Haygood comes a mesmerizing inquiry into the life of Eugene Allen, the butler who ignited a nation's imagination and inspired a major motion picture: Lee Daniels' The Butler, the highly anticipated film that stars... |
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The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age
Wendy Gamber · Ohns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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In September 1868, the remains of Jacob and Nancy Jane Young were found lying near the banks of Indiana's White River. It was a gruesome scene. Part of Jacob's face had been blown off, apparently by the shotgun that lay a few feet away. Spiders and black beetles crawled over his wound.... |
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Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
Nick Offerman · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover |
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Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book.Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman - who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman,... |
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Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles
Bert Ashe · Agate Bolden
Pages: 243
Format: Print book |
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In Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, professor and author Bert Ashe delivers a witty, fascinating, and unprecedented account of black male identity as seen through our culture's perceptions of hair. It is a deeply personal story that weaves together the cultural and political history of dreadlocks... |
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That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Anne Sebba · St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback |
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The first full scale biography of Wallis Simpson to be written by a woman, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the Twentieth Century, a character who played prominently in the blockbuster film The King’s Speech.This is the story of the American divorcee... |
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