In 2007, David Beckham, the golden boy of soccer, shocked the international sports world when
he signed a five-year contract with an American team, the Los Angeles Galaxy. Under the direction of his manager, Simon Fuller, the mastermind behind American ...
The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the
most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA Today In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading ...
In the wry but affectionate tradition of Bill Bryson, Ciao, America! is a delightful look
at America through the eyes of a fiercely funny guest—one of Italy’s favorite authors who spent a year in Washington, D.C. When Beppe Severgnini and ...
Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price.“Masterful .
. . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today“The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as ...
A deluxe, signed edition of President George W. Bush’s collection of oil paintings and stories
honoring the sacrifice and courage of America’s military veterans. With Forewords by former First Lady Laura Bush and General Peter Pace, 16th Chairman of the ...
Ride a bull. Chat up a Senator. And get your homework in on time. It’s
all in a day’s work for a festival queen.If you assume all pageant queens are airheads who can’t handle geography, or vain girls who like ...
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEA magisterial new work that rewrites the story
of America's foundingThe American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It’s ...
In a brief period of explosive, top-secret innovation during the 1950s, a small group of
scientists, engineers, businessmen, and government officials rewrote the book on airplane design and led the nation into outer space. Led by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, ...