Random House imprint: 4901 books
Chesty
The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Featured on the Commandant of the Marine Corps’ Reading List and the Chief of Naval Operation’s “Naval Power” Reading List
The Marine Corps is known for its heroes, and Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller has long been considered the greatest of them all. His assignments and activities...
Fierce Patriot
The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape—and the American character.
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America’s first “celebrity”...
Amerigo
The Man Who Gave His Name to America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
In 1507, European cartographers were struggling to redraw their maps of the world and to name the newly found lands of the Western Hemisphere. The name they settled on: America, after Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure Florentine explorer.
In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto...
Lilla's Feast
One Woman's True Story of Love and War in the Orient
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
At the end of her life, Frances Osborne’s one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother Lilla was as elegant as ever–all fitted black lace and sparkling-white diamonds. To her great-grandchildren, Lilla was both an ally and a mysterious wonder. Her bedroom was filled with treasures from every exotic...
American Rose
A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper...
by Robert K. Massie
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Robert K. Massie—also available are Nicholas and Alexandra and The Romanovs
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the...
Empires of Light
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays...
Thomas Becket
Warrior, Priest, Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
A revisionist new biography reintroducing readers to one of the most subversive figures in English history—the man who sought to reform a nation, dared to defy his king, and laid down his life to defend his sacred honor
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR...
by Edmund Morris
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased...
Joker One
A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
After graduating from Princeton, Donovan Campbell wanted to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead. So he joined the service, becoming a commander of a forty-man infantry platoon called Joker One. Campbell had just months to train and transform a ragtag group of brand-new...
J. D. Salinger
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The inspiration for the major motion picture Rebel in the Rye
One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, the author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now he is the subject...
by Tom Brokaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2000
The instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years.
In this magnificent testament to a nation and her people, Tom Brokaw brings to life the extraordinary stories...
The Heir Apparent
A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE BOSTON GLOBE
This richly entertaining biography chronicles the eventful life of Queen Victoria’s firstborn son, the quintessential black sheep of Buckingham Palace, who matured into as wise and effective a monarch...
Nightingales
The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in Britain–if not the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain’s health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. In an utterly beguiling narrative that...