Philip RothThere is no more decorated American writer living today than Philip Roth, the New York Times best-selling author of American Pastoral, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America....

Rebecca Newberget GoldsteinFrom the author of The Mind-Body Problem: a witty and intoxicating novel of ideas that plunges into the great debate between faith and reason.At the center is Cass...

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...

Pamela S Nadell and Jonathan D Sarna, editorsIn April 1998, the front page of the Los Angeles Times proclaimed that Jews "live in extraordinary times, when American women have transformed...

Harry GoldenIn Vintage Condition309 pages, PaperbackPublished January 1, 1959 by Permabooks (First published January 1, 1958)

**IN VERY DELICATE CONDITION**Henry AdamsAn instant bestseller when first published in 1880, Democracy is the quintessential American political novel. At its heart is Madeleine Lee, a young widow who comes...

Beatrice GormleyPresident Barack Obama's early involvement with politics was inspired by his mother's interest in the controversial social issues of her times -- a passion that she passed on to...

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...

Adam Gopnik On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York. The parents who are determined to...

Avi Wenger In the beginning there is a dream. A boy lays aslumber, sleeping the sleep of a thousand years. A wOman enters the space of his sleep. A kiss...

Jonathan Raban From the best-selling author of Passage to Juneau—“Raban at his best,” wrote Ian McEwan—an unsettling, tender, and always surprising novel set in Seattle at the turn of the...

Joseph J Ellis Following his subject from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. A marvel...