The first Afghan War, a CIA war in response to 9/11, was directed by the CIA Station Chief in Islamabad. It put Hamid Karzai in power in 88 days. If you want an insiders account of …
“Una cautivadora obra, maravillosamente sintetizada, que no se puede soltar” (Slate). Best seller #1 del New York Times y el Libro del Año #1 de No-ficción de la revista Time: El …
The Pulitzer Prizewinning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean …
David Greenway, a journalists journalist in the tradition of Michael Herr, David Halberstam, and Dexter Filkins. In this vivid memoir, he tells us what its like to report a war up …
An ';intriguing and accessible' (Publishers Weekly) interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light …
';Sexy, surprising, funny, insightful, and wildly entertaining' (Huffington Post)the definitive biography of Giacomo Casanova, the impoverished boy who became the famous writer, …
In modern memory, Winston Churchill remains the man with the cigar and the equanimity among the ruins. Few can remember that at the age of 40, he was considered washed up, his best …
Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is one of the most compelling accounts of slavery and one of the most unique of the one hundred or so slave narrativesmostly …
As Lincoln led the nation into the Civil War, managing the Union was effort, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, winning reelection in 1864, and planning the Reconstruction of …
The world's leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the ';riveting' (The New York Times) definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign …
