Abrams imprint: 1041 books
Letters to My Mother
A Message of Love, A Plea for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
On December 1, 2007, during the arrest of several guerillas in Bogotá, the Colombian police confiscated a short video clip of political hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Accompanying the video was a twelve-page letter, dated October 24, 2007, written by Betancourt to her mother and family.
Kidnapped...
Reporting America
The Life of the Nation 1946–2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Over fifty years of reportage from one of the twentieth-century’s greatest broadcasters, showcasing his “masterly discursive approach and splendid humor” (The Independent).
Reporting America is a fascinating account of history in the making. His beloved radio show, Letter From America, saw...
David & Winston
How the Friendship Between Lloyd George and Churchill Changed the Course of History
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Both were outsiders. Neither attended university. Above all, both loved political sparring—often together, in the epic parliamentary battles of the start of the century. Theirs was a deeply personal friendship. Their real shared passion, however, was politics. For ten years between 1904 and 1914...
Our Woman in Havana
A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Our Woman in Havana chronicles the past several decades of US-Cuba relations from the bird’s-eye view of State Department veteran and longtime Cuba hand Vicki Huddleston, our top diplomat in Havana under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.After the US embassy in Havana was closed in 1961, relations...
Washington Journal
Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Re-issued forty years after the tumultuous events that led to Richard Nixon’s historic downfall, a new edition of the legendary Elizabeth Drew’s Washington Journal, featuring a brilliant new afterword. Originally published soon after Richard Nixon's resignation, Elizabeth Drew’s Washington Journal...
Traitor to the Crown
The Untold Story of the Popish Plot and the Consipiracy Against Samuel Pepys
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
“The meticulousness of the Longs’ research is awesome” in this historical account of the plot to brand a British naval official as a Catholic traitor (The Guardian).
1679, England: Fear of conspiracy and religious terrorism have provoked panic in politicians and a zealous reaction from...
Night & Horses & The Desert
An Anthology of Classic Arabic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Spanning the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, from Afghanistan to Spain, Night & Horses & The Desert includes translated extracts from all the major classics in an invaluable introduction to the subject. Robert Irwin has selected a wide range of Arabic poetry and prose in translation, from...
Cemetery John
The Undiscovered Mastermind of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
In this meticulous and authoritative account of the trial and the times of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Robert Zorn clears away decades of ungrounded speculation surrounding the case. Inspired by his father's relationship with the actual accomplices--including the mastermind--he presents the clearest...
by Paul Cartledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2003
The Spartans is a compelling narrative that explores the culture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": the Spartans of ancient Greece, by the world's leading expert in the field. Sparta has often been described as the original Utopia--a remarkably evolved society whose warrior...
Bitter Waters
America's Forgotten Naval Mission to the Dead Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
“An intriguing, thorough study of a little-known scientific expedition to the Dead Sea by a mid-19th-century U.S. Navy lieutenant” (Kirkus Reviews).
With customary depth and insight, David Haward Bain illumines the United States’s nineteenth-century exploration of the Holy Land. To lead...
A Dog's History of America
How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In this revelatory history, Mark Derr looks at the ways in which we have used canines—as sled dogs and sheepdogs, hounds and Seeing Eye dogs, guard dogs, show dogs, and bomb-sniffing dogs—as he tracks changes in American culture and society. In A Dog’s History of America, Derr weaves a remarkable...
At the Edge of Uncertainty
11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All are ideas that have revolutionized science—and all were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven’t stopped in recent years, and in At the Edge of Uncertainty, bestselling author Michael Brooks investigates the new...
Engineers of the Soul
The Grandiose Propaganda of Stalin's Russia
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Frank Westerman draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes. Writers of renown, described by Stalin as "engineers of the soul," were encouraged to sing the praises of canal and dam construction under titles such...
Smogtown
The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was much worse--it came from within, from Southern California's...