A largely untold story of an extraordinary historical figure, this biography sheds light on the
life of William Sheppard, a 19th-century African American who, for more than 20 years, defied segregation and operated a missionary run by black Americans in ...
From the bestselling and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of Netherland, a fascinating, personal, and beautifully crafted
family history.Joseph O'Neill's grandfathers--one Turkish, one Irish--were both imprisoned for suspected subversion during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a ...
The Internet stock bubble wasn't just about goggle-eyed day traderstrying to get rich on the
Nasdaq and goateed twenty-five-year-olds playing wannabe Bill Gates. It was also about an America that believed it had discovered the secret of eternal prosperity: it ...
An American icon and hero faces a nation-and a world-in transitionA bona-fide American hero at
the close of World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower rode an enormous wave of popularity into the Oval Office seven years later. Though we may ...
Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong
to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most ...
From Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart comes the extraordinary story of American hero Rick
Rescorla, Morgan Stanley security director and a veteran of Vietnam and the British colonial wars in Rhodesia, who lost his life on September 11.Heart of ...
A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the Great Lakes Book Award and the 21st
Century Award from the Chicago Public LibraryRaised in an affluent suburb on the North Shore of Chicago, Rich Cohen had a cluster of interesting friends, ...
The remarkable story of Sandra Day O’Connor’s family and early life, her journey to adulthood
in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today: the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and one of ...