Willian Strauss and Neil HoweHailed by national leaders as politically diverse as former Vice President Al Gore and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Generations has been heralded by reviewers as...

Richard Hofstadter Volume II gathers documents from the period of the Revolution through the Jacksonian era, up to the Civil War and the Emancipation. To fit both Colonial and Early...

Translated and Edited by Freda AhenakewA traditional Cree Indian story about how a mouse burned its teeth when it tried to free the sun from a snare.Published January 1, 1996

Michael Korda A big, ambitious, and enthralling new biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower, full of fascinating details and anecdotes, which places particular emphasis on his brilliant generalship and leadership in...

Susan SontagNational Book Award, Fiction, 2000The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag's best-selling 1992 novel, retold the love story of Emma Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson with consummate power. In this enthralling...

Max McCoyThe events, triumphs, and tragedies of the opening of the American West are seen through the eyes of members of two different families--one white and one Lakota. Original. (A...

Kenneth L Marcus "What does it mean to be Jewish? This ancient question has become a pressing civil rights controversy. Despite a recent resurgence of anti-Semitic incidents on American college...

Andrew Tisch and Mary Skafidas Every family has a story of how they arrived in America, whether it was a few months, years, decades, or centuries ago. An American Story...

Jacques Lowe As a young photographer, Jacques Lowe was assigned to photograph and up-and-coming Washington attorney named Robert Kennedy. Mr. Lowe's work impressed the Kennedy family so much that Joseph...

Rallph K AndristOn May 14, 1804, a party of explorers dispatched by President Thomas Jefferson set off up the Missouri River into America's newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Under the leadership...

Stephen Birmingham Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)

Nicole Krauss Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to take him home, she finds...