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Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
James Grant · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of one of the most brilliant and influential financial minds -- banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist. During the upheavals of 2007-09, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot.... |
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Dragonfly
Leila Meacham · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Roses comes a gripping new novel about five young spies embedded among the highest Nazi ranks in occupied Paris
At the height of World War II, a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the government,... |
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George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
David L. Roll · Dutton Caliber
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall - America's most distinguished soldier-statesman since George Washington - whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century.
Winston Churchill called... |
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The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip
Jeff Guinn · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of two American giants - Henry Ford and Thomas Edison - whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship altered dramatically.
In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist... |
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
Svetlana Alexievich · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes an oral history of children's experiences in WWII across Europe and Russia, in the celebrated tradition of her masterpiece, The Unwomanly Face of War.
Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is... |
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Time Song: Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land
· Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 304
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From the award-winning author of the memoir The Three of Us, a lyrical exploration--part travelogue and part history--of Doggerland, the area beneath the North Sea which, until 6,000 years ago, was home to a rich ecosystem and human settlement.
Shortly after her husband's... |
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Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff
Anthony McCann · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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An "epic exploration" of the 2016 right-wing Oregon Occupation-"an excellent microcosm by which we might better understand our difficult national history and distressing political moment" (Maggie Nelson) . In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired right-wing... |
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Barnum: An American Life
Robert Wilson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"Robert Wilson's Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichés for a more nuanced story ... It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves." - The Wall Street Journal
P. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world... |
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