Alfred Hitchcock

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)

Wallace Markfield Welcome to Brighton Beach of the 1930s and early '40s as filtered through Simon Sloan, from youth to would-be artist-as-a-young-man at Brooklyn College to the eve of his...

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...

Kenneth Janda This is a brief edition of a text on democracy which uses a thematic framework that looks at the conflicts between freedom and order, and between freedom and...

Mike Flanagan You're no idiot, of course. You know that Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, ane Belle Star could shoot'em up just as well as Wild Bill Hickok, Jesse James, and...

Donald A Ritchie An alphabetically arranged, illustrated guide to the United States Congress with short essays on such topics as congressional leadership, relations with the President, elections and succession, notable...

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...