An All-American Hero, Back in the Spotlight
He was a 20-time All-Star and three-time World Series champion, a first-ballot Hall of Famer with 3,630 career hits (1,815 at home, 1,815 on the road), and the holder of 17 major league records when he...
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Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography. History offers few stories...
View ArticleAuthor and Editor discuss YOURS IN TRUTH, buzzed-about biography of Ben Bradlee
Readers learned more about YOURS IN TRUTH, an intimate portrait of Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post during a Twitter chat with author Jeff Himmelman and his...
View ArticleJon Meacham in conversation with David Brooks at BEA
“This is probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written; it is certainly the most readable.” -Gordon Wood, author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution “With thorough and...
View ArticleAn Excerpt from Amanda Bennett’s THE COST OF HOPE
“A beautiful, brave, funny, vexing, and tender love story—a fight against death to save a man who was larger than life . . . Hope turns out to be priceless, and enduring.”—Dominique Browning, author of...
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“This is possibly the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written.” -Gordon S. Wood In this magnificent biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the bestsellers AMERICAN...
View ArticleAuthor Interview: Joseph Persico on ROOSEVELT’S CENTURIONS
“[A] sweeping, top-down account of 1939–45 from the point of view of FDR, his cabinet and his leading generals and admirals. . . . Long wars demand long books, but these are 550 pages of lively prose...
View ArticleEnter for a chance to win I KISS YOUR HANDS MANY TIMES by Marianne...
“This family memoir is everything you could wish for in the genre: the story of a fascinating family that illuminates the historical time it lived through. . . . Informative and fascinating in every...
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