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"Sets a standard for political storytelling with impeccable research and lively writing." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Page-turning...riveting...colorful and detailed...a …
This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nation's history. Eric …
A revealing biography of Lady Bird Johnson exposes startling insights into her marriage to Lyndon Baines Johnson--and her unexpectedly strong impact on his presidency.Long obscured …
A "well-researched and very readable new biography" (The Wall Street Journal) of "the Thomas Edison of guns," a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose …
In 1992, three hundred innocent Haitian men, women, and children who had qualified for political asylum in the United States were detained at Guant namo Bay, Cuba -- and told they …
An "excellent sports history" (Publishers Weekly) in the tradition of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, award-winning historian S.C. Gwynne tells the incredible story of how two unknown …
A VIVID AND FASCINATING LOOK AT AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST STORIED HIGHWAY, THE BOSTON POST ROAD During its evolution from Indian trails to modern …
From the award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the world's longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a …
A fresh, meticulous, and entertaining account of Henry Ford, the Model-T, and the invention of the American car industry in the early twentieth century that "will make you rethink …
In this "first-rate work of historical research and storytelling" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed as places where truth was written …