Times Books imprint: 208 books
James Buchanan
The American Presidents Series: The 15th President, 1857-1861
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
A provocative reconsideration of a presidency on the brink of Civil War
Almost no president was as well trained and well prepared for the office as James Buchanan. He had served in the Pennsylvania state legislature, the U.S. House, and the U.S. Senate; he was Secretary of State and was even...
Franklin Pierce
The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery
Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 Democratic convention. Though he seized the White House in a...
Jimmy Carter
The American Presidents Series: The 39th President, 1977-1981
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The maverick politician from Georgia who rode the post- Watergate wave into office but whose term was consumed by economic and international crises
A peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter rose to national power through mastering the strategy of the maverick politician. As the face of the...
In Nixon's Web
A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
The last untold story of Watergate—by the FBI director who maintained his silence for more than thirty years
L.Patrick Gray III was the man caught in the middle of the Watergate scandal. He was a lifelong Republican, but Richard Nixon considered him a threat. Closing in on the conspiracy,...
Chester Alan Arthur
The American Presidents Series: The 21st President, 1881-1885
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2004
The Gilded Age bon vivant who became America's unlikeliest chief executive-and who presided over a sweeping reform of the system that nurtured him
Chester Alan Arthur never dreamed that one day he would be president of the United States. A successful lawyer, Arthur had been forced out as the...
William Henry Harrison
The American Presidents Series: The 9th President,1841
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
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...
Ulysses S. Grant
The American Presidents Series: The 18th President, 1869-1877
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as well
As a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely described in glowing terms-the man who turned the tide of the Civil War, who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and who had the stomach...
Theodore Roosevelt
The American Presidents Series: The 26th President, 1901-1909
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th century
The American century opened with the election of that quintessentially American adventurer, Theodore Roosevelt. Louis Auchincloss's warm and knowing biography introduces us to the man behind the many myths of Theodore Roosevelt....
George Washington
The American Presidents Series: The 1st President, 1789-1797
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A premier leadership scholar and an eighteenth-century expert define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president
Revolutionary hero, founding president, and first citizen of the young republic, George Washington was the most illustrious public man of his time, a man...
John Tyler
The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
The first "accidental president," whose secret maneuverings brought Texas into the Union and set secession in motion
When William Henry Harrison died in April 1841, just one month after his inauguration, Vice President John Tyler assumed the presidency. It was a controversial move...
Richard M. Nixon
The American Presidents Series: The 37th President, 1969-1974
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
The complex man at the center of America's most self-destructive presidency
In this provocative and revelatory assessment of the only president ever forced out of office, the legendary Washington journalist Elizabeth Drew explains how Richard M. Nixon's troubled inner life offers the key to...
Andrew Johnson
The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from office
Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's...
Bottom of the Ninth
Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Fifty years ago, as baseball faced crises on and off the field, two larger-than-life figures took center stage, each on a quest to reinvent the national pastime
In the late 1950s, baseball was under siege. Up-and-coming cities that wanted teams of their own were being rebuffed by the owners,...
by Seth Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A provocative and revelatory new biography of the legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, by one of America's top college basketball writers
No college basketball coach has ever dominated the sport like John Wooden. His UCLA teams reached unprecedented heights in the 1960s and '70s capped by a run...