
In this amazing and at times ribald story, Laton McCartney tells how Big Oil handpicked Warren G. Harding, an obscure Ohio senator, to serve as our twenty-third president. Harding and his “oil cabinet” made it possible for cronies to secure vast fuel reserves that had been set aside for use by t...
Book DetailsAuthor : McCartney, Laton
Publish : January 13, 2009
Publisher : Random House
The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country

When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August of 1892, the arrest of the couple’s daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known ...
Book DetailsAuthor : Robertson, Cara
Publish : March 12, 2019
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
The Trial of Lizzie Borden

In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double-agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terro...
Book DetailsAuthor : Warrick, Joby
Publish : July 19, 2011
Publisher : Doubleday
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA

A thrilling Cold War narrative exploring two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunneling beneath the Berlin Wall, the U.S. television networks who financed and filmed them, and the Kennedy administration's unprecedented attempt to suppress both films.
In the summer of 1962, one year af...
Book DetailsAuthor : Mitchell, Greg
Publish : October 18, 2016
Publisher : Crown
The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill

The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet.
Accla...
Book DetailsAuthor : Morris, Charles R.
Publish : October 7, 2005
Publisher : Times Books
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

When Emma Sky volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, she had little idea what she was getting in to. Her assignment was only supposed to last three months. She went on to serve there longer than any other senior military or diplomatic figure, giving her an un...
Book DetailsAuthor : Sky, Emma
Publish : April 7, 2015
Publisher : PublicAffairs
The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not ...
Book DetailsAuthor : Grann, David
Publish : April 18, 2023
Publisher : Doubleday
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day
On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, a...
Book DetailsAuthor : Sides, Hampton
Publish : April 9, 2024
Publisher : Doubleday
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

It’s 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb. They have the physicists. They have the will. What they don’t have is enough “heavy water," an essential ingredient for their nuclear designs. For two years, the Nazis have occupied Norway, and with it the Vemork hydroelectric plant, ...
Book DetailsAuthor : Bascomb, Neal
Publish : May 3, 2016
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb

Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials.
The panic began early in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to writhe and roar. It spread quickly, confoundin...
Book DetailsAuthor : Schiff, Stacy
Publish : October 27, 2015
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
The Witches: Salem, 1692

The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a doz...
Book DetailsAuthor : Egan, Timothy
Publish : December 14, 2005
Publisher : Mariner Books
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

John Flammang Schrank—a lonely Manhattan saloonkeeper—was obsessed with the 1912 presidential election and Theodore Roosevelt. The ex-president’s extremism and third-term campaign were downright un-American.
Convinced that TR would ignite civil war and leave the nation open to foreign invas...
Book DetailsAuthor : Helferich, Gerard
Publish : October 8, 2013
Publisher : Lyons Press
Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin: Madness, Vengeance, and the Campaign of 1912

If you wanted to create the next earth-shattering consumer product, Steve Jobs would be an ideal role model to follow. If you planned to become a great golfer, you might look to Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus. So, if your goals are to outperform other investors and achieve your life's financial goal...
Book DetailsAuthor : Swedroe, Larry E
Publish : December 11, 2012
Publisher : McGraw Hill
Think, Act, and Invest Like Warren Buffett: The Winning Strategy to Help You Achieve Your Financial and Life Goals

Born into a family with a long history of military service dating back to the Revolutionary War, Andrew Exum enrolled in Army ROTC to pay for his Ivy League education. Shortly after graduation in 2000, he joined the infantry, then endured the grueling rigors of Ranger School before becoming a platoo...
Book DetailsAuthor : Exum, Andrew
Publish : May 19, 2005
Publisher : Gotham Books
This Man’s Army: A Solider’s Story from the Front Lines of the War on Terrorism

In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forev...
Book DetailsAuthor : Meacham, Jon
Publish : November 13, 2012
Publisher : Random House
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age. Through writings like Common Sense—and words such as "The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth," "We have it in our power to begin the world over again," and "These ...
Book DetailsAuthor : Kaye, Harvey J
Publish : August 3, 2005
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America

The astonishing WWII true story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. It also made them the underground's most invaluable commodity. Now for the first time, the complete account of these inspiring teenager...
Book DetailsAuthor : Brady, Tim
Publish : February 23, 2021
Publisher : Citadel
Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes

In a rousing account of one of the critical turning points in American history, Through the Perilous Fight tells the gripping story of the burning of Washington and the improbable last stand at Baltimore that helped save the nation and inspired its National Anthem.
In the summer of 1814, the United...
Book DetailsAuthor : Vogel, Steve
Publish : May 7, 2013
Publisher : Random House
Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation

Thunder at Twilight is a landmark of historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna—and in the life of the twentieth century. It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived on a mission that wo...
Book DetailsAuthor : Morton, Frederic
Publish : April 26, 2001
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Thunder At Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914

The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker.
Under the leadership of her fearless skipper, Captain Gene Fluckey, the Barb sank the great...
Book DetailsAuthor : Fluckey, Eugene B, Admiral
Publish : July 1, 1992
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II

No outlaw typifies America’s mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true tale of Sheriff Pat Garrett’s thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the notorious bandit. David Dary calls To Hell on a Fast Horse, “A masterpiece,” and...
Book DetailsAuthor : Gardner, Mark Lee
Publish : February 9, 2010
Publisher : William Morrow
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. "To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an ...
Book DetailsAuthor : Lee, Harper
Publish : May 23, 2006
Publisher : Harper Perennial Modern Classics
To Kill a Mockingbird

Motivated by the idea of turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses New York s master builder brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and 65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964/65 World's Fair was a sixties flash point in...
Book DetailsAuthor : Tirella, Joe
Publish : January 7, 2014
Publisher : Lyons Press
Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World’s Fair and the Transformation of America

"Totch Brown's memoirs of vanished days in the Ten Thousand Islands and the Everglades--the last real frontier in Florida, and even today the greatest roadless wilderness in the United States--are invaluable as well as vivid and entertaining, for Totch is a natural-born story-teller, and his account...
Book DetailsAuthor : Brown, Loren G "Totch"
Publish : September 20, 1993
Publisher : niversity Press of Florida
Totch: A Life in the Everglades

The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless tunnel hundreds of feet under Massachusetts Bay to do a nearly impossible job-with deadly results
In the 1990s, Boston built a sophisticated waste treatment plant on Deer Island that was poised to show the country how to deal with...
Book DetailsAuthor : Swidey, Neil
Publish : February 2014
Publisher : Crown
Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness

The largest amphibious invasion force ever to cross the Atlantic Ocean set sail from Virginia for North Africa in November 1942. Operation Torch was the true beginning of the liberation of Europe since control of Northwestern Africa — Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia -- gave the Allies a base on the ...
Book DetailsAuthor : Brady, Tim
Publish : April 24, 2012
Publisher : Crown
Twelve Desperate Miles: The Epic World War II Voyage of the SS Contessa

Upon highlighting each of our United States Presidents, a handy list of the scandals, controversies, oddities and perhaps, blunders are enumerated. You may not necessarily agree with the list, but, that may be part of the fun of looking back and knowing the Founding Fathers may be laughing or frowni...
Book DetailsAuthor : Rossi, MJ
Publish : May 25, 2018
Publisher : Hudson House
U.S. Presidents: Rankings, Controversies, Scandals and Oddities

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to ...
Book DetailsAuthor : Hillenbrand, Laura
Publish : November 16, 2010
Publisher : Random House
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

Pick any page, and get your history fix!
Leave it to Uncle John to find a new way to make history fun and exciting! This quirky collection of lists is the latest volume in the Bathroom Reader’s best-selling history series. These 508 pages will breathe life into history’s most famous (and mos...
Book DetailsAuthor : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publish : September 1, 2010
Publisher : Portable Press
Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader History’s Lists

In this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author od D-Day, presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through ...
Book DetailsAuthor : Ambrose, Stephen E
Publish : February 15, 1996
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

On September 1, 1894, two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping more than two thousand people. The fire created its own weather, including hurricane-strength winds, bubbles of plasma-like glowing gas, and 200-foot-tall flames. As temperatures reached 1,600 degrees Fahre...
Book DetailsAuthor : Brown, Daniel James
Publish : May 1, 2006
Publisher : Lyons Press
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894

An enthralling memoir of WWII adventure: fighter pilot, fugitive in Paris, Gestapo prisoner, and ultimately a great escape artist, Bill Ash's story is unforgettable. From the lean days of Depression-era Texas to the thrill of being one of the few who flew Spitfires, from a death-defying crash landin...
Book DetailsAuthor : Ash, William and Foley, Brendan
Publish : November 29, 2012
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Under the Wire: The Bestselling Memoir of an American Spitfire Pilot and Legendary POW Escaper

“A reflection on the nature of storytelling itself” (The Wall Street Journal), Unsinkable traces the individual journeys of five men on one ship from Casablanca in North Africa, to Sicily and Salerno in Italy and then on to Plunkett’s defining moment at Anzio, where a dozen-odd German bombers ...
Book DetailsAuthor : Sullivan, James
Publish : December 8, 2020
Publisher : Scribner
Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett

Unstoppable is the ultimate immigrant story and an epic David-and-Goliath adventure. While American teens were socializing in ice cream parlors, Siggi was suffering beatings by Nazi hoodlums for being a Jew and was soon deported along with his family to the darkest place the world has ever known: Au...
Book DetailsAuthor : Greene, Joshua M
Publish : April 6, 2021
Publisher : Insight Editions
Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is and Lucky 666 return with an unforgettable comeback story in American history—the inspiring, page-turning account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army base where George Washington turned the tide of the American Revoluti...
Book DetailsAuthor : Drury, Bob & Clavin, Tom
Publish : October 2, 2018
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Valley Forge

Valor is the magnificent story of a genuine American hero who survived the fall of the Philippines and brutal captivity under the Japanese, from New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton.
Lieutenant William Frederick “Bill” Harris was 25 years old when captured by Japanese forces during t...
Book DetailsAuthor : Hampton, Dan
Publish : May 3, 2022
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Valor: The Astonishing World War II Saga of One Man’s Defiance and Indomitable Spirit

In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water—but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn't there. ...
Book DetailsAuthor : Hylton, Wil S
Publish : November 5, 2013
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II

From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other. Kennedy's battle with Hoffa burst into the public consciousness with the 1957 Senate Rackets Committee hearings and intensified when his brother named him attorney general ...
Book DetailsAuthor : Neff, James
Publish : July 7, 2015
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa

151 combat missions
21 hard kills on surface-to-air-missile sites
4 Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor
1 Purple Heart
Sure to rank as one of the greatest aviation memoirs ever written, Viper Pilot is an Air Force legend's thrilling eyewitness account of modern air warfare
From 1986 to ...
Book DetailsAuthor : Hampton, Dan
Publish : October 2, 2012
Publisher : William Morrow
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat

These are the stories from fifteen WWII Marines, compiled by Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton but left unfiltered and in the words of the Marines who were there. Unflinching, brutal, and relentless, Voices of the Pacific will leave a reader gasping for air and dumbstruck in awe of the old heroes who...
Book DetailsAuthor : Makos, Adam
Publish : April 2, 2013
Publisher : Berkley
Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II

In this intimate memoir, Perry A. Ulander chronicles with powerful clarity the bewildering predicament he confronted and the fellowship and guidance that transformed him during the year he served as an American GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Conveying with unadorned precision the harrowing experience...
Book DetailsAuthor : Ulander, Perry A
Publish : May 20, 2016
Publisher : North Atlantic Books, U.S.
Walking Point: From the Ashes of the Vietnam War

The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.
In 1907, I...
Book DetailsAuthor : Standiford, Les
Publish : March 31. 2015
Publisher : Ecco
Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles

In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a...
Book DetailsAuthor : Moore, Harold G, Lt Gen and Galloway, Joseph L
Publish : April 16, 2002
Publisher : Harpperen
We Were Soldiers Once… and Young: Ia Drang – The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam

The building of the Erie Canal, like the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal, is one of the greatest and most riveting stories of American ingenuity. Best-selling author Peter Bernstein presents the story of the canal's construction against the larger tableau of America in the f...
Book DetailsAuthor : Bernstein, Peter L
Publish : January 1, 2005
Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc
Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation

Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea, through streams an...
Book DetailsAuthor : Balcombe, Jonathan
Publish : June 7, 2016
Publisher : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at the Medical Examiner’s Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. The work was gritty, demand...
Book DetailsAuthor : Butcher, Barbara
Publish : June 20, 2023
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It i...
Book DetailsAuthor : Dolin, Eric Jay
Publish : September 10, 2012 by
Publisher : Liveright (division of W. W. Norton)
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail

At the tail end of 1946, the United States navy sent an expedition into the stark cold of Antarctica to photograph the terrain from the air and lay claim to the huge continent at the bottom of the globe. Many of the navy's men on the expedition were fresh from service in the recently ended World War...
Book DetailsAuthor : Kearns, David A
Publish : November 1, 2005
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
Where Hell Freezes Over: A Story of Amazing Bravery and Survival

In 2002, Philip Levy arrived on the banks of Rappahannock River in Virginia to begin an archeological excavation of Ferry Farm, the eight hundred acre plot of land that George Washington called home from age six until early adulthood. Six years later, Levy and his team announced their remarkable fin...
Book DetailsAuthor : Levy, Philip
Publish : February 12, 2013
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Where the Cherry Tree Grew: The Story of Ferry Farm, George Washington’s Boyhood Home

The president who served the shortest term—just a single month—but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America's highest office
William Henry Harrison died just thirty-one days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity in American...
Book DetailsAuthor : Collins, Gail
Publish : January 17, 2012
Publisher : Times Books
William Henry Harrison

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting documents in war literature." And Studs Terkel was so fascinated with the story he interviewed its aut...
Book DetailsAuthor : Sledge, E B
Publish : October 25, 1990
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Children were at the center of the Nazi ideology; now we have their history of those years. In this groundbreaking study–based on a wide range of new sources–Nicholas Stargardt details what happened to children of all nationalities and religions living under the Nazi regime. Their stories open a...
Book DetailsAuthor : Stargardt, Nicholas
Publish : January 9, 2007
Publisher : Vintage
Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives Under the Nazis

The inspiring and revelatory autobiography of the defense secretary and CIA director who led the intelligence war that killed Bin Laden, among many important roles in a legendary career
It could be said that Leon Panetta has had two of the most consequential careers of any American public servant...
Book DetailsAuthor : Panetta, Leon and Newton, Steve
Publish : October 7, 2014
Publisher : Penguin Press
Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace

The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The bullets hit fast and hard, went deep and took b...
Book DetailsAuthor : Mayhew, Emily
Publish : November 12, 2013
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I

Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our nation's history? And yet after 150 years the dramatic and surprising story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address has never been fully told. Until now.
Martin Johnson's remarkable work of historical and ...
Book DetailsAuthor : Johnson, Martin P
Publish : December 2013
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Writing the Gettysburg Address

Many people are familiar with the story of Al Capone, the “untouchable” Chicago gangster best known for orchestrating the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. But few are aware that Capone’s remarkable story began in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn, New York. Tutored by the likes of infamous mobs...
Book DetailsAuthor : Balsamo, William and John
Publish : March 1, 2011
Publisher : Skyhorse
Young Al Capone: The Untold Story of Scarface in New York, 1899-1925