Penguin Publishing Group: 18231 books
Playing with Fire
The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today
The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O’Donnell’s...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2
The Defining Years, 1933-1938
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe).
The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War...
Runaway Girl
Escaping Life on the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
“Riveting . . . A genuinely important book that casts the problem of sex trafficking in America into stunning, heartbreaking relief.” (Kirkus Reviews)
A School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Teens
A Joan F. Kaywell Award Finalist from the Florida Council of Teachers of English
Carissa...
Firefighting
The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis--from why it happened to where we are now.
In 2018, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and Hank Paulson came together to reflect on the...
Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, the definitive biography of Malcolm X.
Hailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), the late Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century...
Even Silence Has an End
My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
"Betancourt's riveting account...is an unforgettable epic of moral courage and human endurance." -Los Angeles Times
In the midst of her campaign for the Colombian presidency in 2002, Ingrid Betancourt traveled into a military-controlled region, where she was abducted by the FARC,...
Eichmann in Jerusalem
A Report on the Banality of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism
Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as...
Devil's Bargain
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump—the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces...
Facts and Fears
Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
**New York Times bestseller
The former Director of National Intelligence's candid and compelling account of the intelligence community's successes--and failures--in facing some of the greatest threats to America**
When he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director...
James Madison
A Life Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne Cheney
Lin-Manuel Miranda's play "Hamilton" has reignited interest in the founding fathers; it features James Madison among its vibrant cast of characters. This majestic new biography...
by Paul Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
From the “most celebrated and best-loved British historian in America” (Wall Street Journal), an elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of Winston Churchill
In Churchill, eminent historian Paul Johnson offers a lively, succinct exploration of one of the most complex and fascinating personalities...
Playing to the Edge
American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, demonstrating in a time of new threats that espionage and the search for facts are essential to our democracy
For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust...
Worthy Fights
A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The New York Times–bestselling autobiography of a legendary political and military leader
It could be said that Leon Panetta has had two of the most consequential careers of any American public servant in the past fifty years. His first career, beginning as an Army intelligence officer and...
Winston Churchill
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
One of the greatest historians writing today gives us a defining portrait of the incomparable Winston Churchill
In his landmark biography of Winston Churchill, acclaimed historian John Keegan offers a very human portrait of one of the twentieth century's enduring symbols of heroic defiance....