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Otto Preminger
The Man Who Would Be King
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
The first full-scale life of the controversial, greatly admired yet often underrated director/producer who was known as “Otto the Terrible.”
Nothing about Otto Preminger was small, trivial, or self-denying, from his privileged upbringing in Vienna as the son of an improbably successful...
Conversations with Woody Allen
His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
From the author of the best-selling biography *Woody Allen—*the most informative, revealing, and entertaining conversations from his thirty-six years of interviewing the great comedian and filmmaker.
For more than three decades, Woody Allen has been talking regularly and candidly with Eric...
Inside Out
A Memoir of the Blacklist
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
In an immensely alive and pointed memoir by a writer who was himself blacklisted during what Lillian Hellman so aptly called "scoundrel time, " Bernstein recounts his passage from idealist to scapegoat. Chronicling his writing careers in Hollywood and then television, Bernstein tells of...
The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
A Personal Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
A long-awaited memoir of the Nuremberg war crimes trials by one of its key participants. In 1945 Telford Taylor joined the prosecution staff and eventually became chief counsel of the international tribunal established to try top-echelon Nazis. Telford provides an engrossing eyewitness account of one of the most significant events of our century.
Hostage Nation
Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle.
On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid...
Up Ghost River
A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
A powerful, raw yet eloquent memoir from a residential school survivor and former First Nations Chief, Up Ghost River is a necessary step toward our collective healing.
In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada’s worst residential schools....
by Lauro Martines
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
The great Italian city-states: Venice, Florence, Milan, and the others. The particular nature of their history and culture through the five centuries of their emergence, magnificent flowering, and twilight is brilliantly explored in terms of the internal shifts of economic, social, and political power—by...
Unfinished Conversations
Mayas and Foreigners Between Two Wars
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
A century ago, European and North American archaeologists first came upon the extraordinary ruins of Chichen Itza and Tulum—and started to converse with the Mayas who inhabited the forests of the Yucatan. In this thought-provoking history of a century-long "unfinished conversation" between...
by David D. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A revelatory account of the aspirations and accomplishments of the people who founded the New England colonies, comparing the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution.
Distinguished historian David D. Hall looks afresh at how the colonists...
A Measure of Light
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
With Beth Powning’s trademark elegance and insight into the hearts and minds of unforgettable women, A Measure of Light brings to life an extraordinary historical figure.
Mary Dyer is a seventeenth-century Puritan who flees persecution in England, only to find the colony of Massachusetts...
Kearny's March
The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
A thrilling re-creation of a crucial campaign in the Mexican-American War and a pivotal moment in America's history.
In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with a thousand cavalrymen of the First United States Dragoons. When his fantastic expedition...
by Dinaw Mengestu
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes an unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s...
Cold Fire
Kennedy's Northern Front
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Forget all you think you know about the Kennedy years. With narrative flair and sparkling storytelling, acclaimed historian John Boyko explores the crucial period when America and its allies were fighting the Cold War's most treacherous battles, Canadians were trading sovereignty for security, and...
Anthony Powell
Dancing to the Music of Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into the heart of twentieth-century London's literary life.
Insightful, lively, and enthralling, this biography is as much a brilliant tapestry of a seminal era in London’s...