American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History Chris Kyle From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills...

The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View Richard Tarnas "[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'West's mainstream...

Lean RabinA major international literary and historic event: the deeply personal remembrances of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by his widow--a singular, intimate portrait of the soldier turned statesman who lived...

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David Herbert DonaldThe year's most important biography -- of a leader who still speaks to our timesIn the bestselling tradition of Truman, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Herbert Donald offers...

Allan MetcalfPerhaps more than anyone else, politicians are what they say — and how they say it. In Presidential Voices, Metcalf examines both how the presidents have spoken to the...

Michael Doran“Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise” (The New York Times Book Review) - a major retelling of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, a seminal event in the...

Uri DanDan, General Ariel Sharon's "media adviser," offers a highly partisan, I-was-there account of the general's recent libel action against Time magazine, which centered on the allegation that Sharon had...

Ben DupreAt a time of widespread popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the basic concepts of politics has never been greater. The forces of Fundamentalism...

The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Morality and Law Alan M. Dershowitz From the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties...

Anchee MinRed Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at...

Author: Michael Lewis The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."—Graydon Carter, Vanity...