Allan Gurganus This epic bestseller of 99-year-old Lucy Marsden's life (from the Civil War to her equally intense domestic battles) is the kind of novel people will want to read...

David W Blight **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**“Extraordinary…a great American biography” ( The New Yorker ) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the...

Winston Groom The author of Forrest Gump recreates the brave, desperate campaign of Confederate General John Bell Hood to turn the tide of war, from the fall of Atlanta to...