In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America...
From Ethan Canin, bestselling author of The Palace Thief, comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact...
This is the third volume in a history of nuclear weaponry that began with the award-winning THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB, but despite its subtitle, this installment might also be described as a...
The earliest extant heroic epic in any European vernacular, Beowulf is considered the most important poem in Old English. The title character is a warrior of superhuman strength who...
Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
Tom Brokaw
Release date: 11/06/2007
In THE GREATEST GENERATION, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in BOOM!, one of...
This touching, uplifting novel spans decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. Here there is a father whose dreams of glory on a baseball field are shattered by...
In this first important consideration of the George W. Bush presidency and its profound impact on the state of the world, Jacob Weisberg crafts a wide-ranging portrait that is both balanced and...
An unprecedented look at a family notorious for guarding its privacy, THE BUSHES tells the story of the Bush family's ascent to wealth, power, and prominence - the extent of which surpasses that of...
From the author of the acclaimed and bestselling The Gates of the Alamo, a novel of extraordinary power about what it's like, and what it means, to journey into space as one of today's...
Dispatches From the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping
Patrick Radden Keefe
Release date: 02/19/2008
In CHATTER, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates the international eavesdropping alliance known as Echelon, sorting facts from conspiracy theories to determine just how much privacy Americans...
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