Susan Jacoby Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon—one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular...

Norman Schwarzkopf He set his star by a simple motto: duty, honor, country. Only rarely does history grant a single individual the ability, personal charisma, moral  force, and intelligence to command the respect,  admiration,...

Garrett Mattingly January 1, 1948 by Little Brown & Co

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...

William Hedgepeth and Dennis Stock William Hedgepeth and photoessayist Dennis Stock offer a sensitive and astute penetration in depth into the new commune culture of the 1970s, from its roots...

Paul Cartledge The great Hellenist Paul Cartledge offers us in this book a masterful introduction to the culture and civilization of Greece, diverging from the more common paths. Skillfully blending...

James P. Womack,  Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos   When James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos wrote THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD in 1990, Japanese automakers, and Toyota...

Bill Bryson Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt...

Stanley Gardiner A history of Chalford to Sapperton January 1, 1995 by Chalford TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian...

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...

Nigel West In The Third Secret, Nigel West makes a convincing case that when the CIA joined forces with the Vatican under the Polish Pope John Paul II to launch...

David Darlington Could the US government - or some other unnamed entity - be hiding captured alien spacecraft after a half-century of Cold War paranoia? Area 51, Dreamland, Groom Lake,...