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New York's Central Park has captured the hearts of nature lovers the world over. Yet its meadows, brooks, and glens are man-made - and the man who made them was Frederick Law Olmstead. Here, in this short-form book by award-winning historian and journalist Walter Karp, is its surprising and seldom-told story.

"Charles Mee is one of the most imaginative playwrights of our time." - CultureVulture.net. Here are six enthusiastically received plays about love by Charles Mee: Adam and Evie, Bedtime Stories, Paradise Park, Tunnel of Love, A Perfect Wedding, and Cardenio. "Mr. Mee's plays are ....

"Who's the world's greatest playwright? . . . I'll toss in Charles Mee." - Broadwayworld.com. Here are six enthusiastically received plays about love by Charles Mee: Big Love, First Love, True Love, Summertime, Wintertime, and Fire Island. "Even before it begins . . . Big Love, one...

". . . raucous and joyful." - The New York Times. Here are seven enthusiastically received plays about the pleasure of life on earth by Charles Mee: Heaven on Earth, Life, A Happy Life, Festival of Life, Daily Life Everlasting, Eterniday, and The Four Seasons. "The line between theater...

". . . what unfurls on the stage . . . is brashly, unapologetically entertaining. . . ." - The New York Times. Here are six enthusiastically received plays by Charles Mee inspired by immortal artists: Matisse's Self Portrait, Picasso's Masterpiece, Van Gogh's Sunflowers, bobrauschenbergamerica,...

As the American frontier moved westward and wildlife declined, John James Audubon drove himself to record his wonders. Here, in this short-form book, is his story.

In a remarkable essay entitled "Wealth" and published in 1889, Andrew Carnegie argued that there were only three alternatives by which a man of great wealth could dispose of his fortune: Leave it to his family, bequeath it in his will for public purposes, or administer its distribution for public benefit...

Louis Kahn was one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, hailed as a master of materials, but also of light. "The plan of a building," he once said, "should be read like a harmony of spaces created in light." Here, in this essay by the legendary art critic Robert Hughes, is Kahn's story.

Cornelius Vanderbilt was a colossal figure. By wise investment, shrewd manipulation, and the use of his fists, he died the wealthiest man in the United States. His life was an epic of the steam age. Here, in this short-form book by historian Bernard A. Weisberger, is his extraordinary story.

Stephen Colbert is far more than a comedian and improv genius. As head of his fanciful Colbert Nation, the quick-witted host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report has delighted fans with his wit, audacity, and innovative uses of language and the media. In this biography, award-winning journalist...

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney - artist, entrepreneur, innovator, filmmaker, and theme-park impresario - gave birth to a sprawling entertainment enterprise that, in the half-century since his death in 1966, remains a fixture in the culture unlike any other. A titan of the American Century, Walt...

"Charles Mee has recreated the vivid drama of 1787 . . . Genius of the People is an absorbing look at the incomparable personalities who brought us our Constitution." - Michael Beschloss. Genius of the People is a timely account of the birth of America's national government during the Constitutional...

Thomas Fleming is best known as a historian of the American Revolution and a biographer of America's founding fathers. But, as the following collection shows, this award-winning writer, whose career spanned more than fifty years, also explored with equal passion and curiosity the history of other,...

Here, National Book Award winner Richard Winston explores life in the Middle Ages - from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire and ending with the dawn of the Renaissance. In both countryside and cities, from the peasants to the bourgeoisie to the nobility, no aspect of life in this era is left unexplored.