Timely and controversial, A Bed for the Night reveals how humanitarian organizations are often betrayed
and misused, and have increasingly lost sight of their purpose. Drawing on firsthand reporting from war zones around the world, David Rieff shows us what ...
The groundbreaking multigenerational biography, a richly textured account of President Obama and the forces that
shaped him and sustain him, from Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, political commentator, and acclaimed biographer David Maraniss. In Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss has written ...
Renowned historian David A. Clary studies George Washington’s early military career as a young colonel
during the French and Indian War, and how those campaigns influenced his leadership and strategy as a general during the Revolutionary War and as the ...
For generations of resolute adventurers, from George Mallory to Sir Edmund Hillary to Jon Krakauer,
Mount Everest and the world's other greatest peaks have provided the ultimate testing ground. But the question remains: Why climb? In High Exposure, elite mountaineer ...
From Babe Ruth to Bo Jackson, from Cool Papa Bell to Lou Brock, Buck O'Neil
has seen it all. As a first baseman and then manager of the legendary Kansas City Monarchs, O'Neil witnessed the heyday of the Negro leagues ...
An exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with
the intellectual sleuthing of archaeology to explore the Anasazi.David Roberts describes the culture of the Anasazi—the name means “enemy ancestors” in Navajo—who once inhabited ...
She can be funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathic and demanding. Who is the
woman Barack Obama calls the boss? In Michelle, Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait, taking us inside the marriage of ...
“A fascinating political, racial, economic, and cultural tapestry” (Detroit Free Press), Once in a Great
City is a tour de force from David Maraniss about the quintessential American city at the top of its game: Detroit in 1963.Detroit in 1963 ...