Author: Michael Moore Stupid White Men - ...and other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!Published 2002 by Penguin (first published February 19th 2001)

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania,...

Bernard Bailyn Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other,...

Herbert Ashbury The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered . . . the...

Jonathan FranzenJonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama...

Author: Saul BellowRacist, traitor, or fool? College dean in Chicago, Albert Corde stands accused.Pilloried by the media for publishing scathing articles exposing local corruption, Corde has also embroiled himself in...

Philip Roth No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you’re not superior to...

Clayborne Carson, David J Garrow, Gerald Gill, Vincent Harding, Darlene Clark Hine A record of the American civil rights movement. Included are speeches by Martin Luther King Jr, and his...

Juan Williams Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v . the Board of Education case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage...

Eric Foner “A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”― Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review...

Lawrence HillKeita Ali has nothing: no bank account, no papers, no legal identity. A runner, he has fled home - a brutal dictatorship that produces the world's fastest marathoners -...

Jon Roper This unparalleled illustrated reference book is a fascinating guide to the 44 statesmen who have held the highest-ranking political office in the United States government.The book opens with...