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In this “extraordinarily brave and entertaining book” (Sonia Purnell, New York Times–bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance), the bestselli...

Infamous Scribblers is a perceptive and witty exploration of the most volatile period in the history of the American press. News correspondent and ...

Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad. It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have perm...

SOON TO BE AN HBO SERIES, "THE WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS," STARRING WOODY HARRELSON AND JUSTIN THEROUX In 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a close...

A tour through the groundbreaking science behind the enigmatic, but crucial, brain developments of adolescence and how those translate into teenage...

A tour through the groundbreaking science behind the enigmatic, but crucial, brain developments of adolescence and how those translate into teenage...

An eye-opening look at the small communities of propagandists revolutionizing politics, culture, and society“Essential and riveting reading.” —Jona...

An eye-opening look at the small communities of propagandists revolutionizing politics, culture, and society“Essential and riveting reading.” —Jona...

America is at an important turning point. Remote warfare is not just a mainstay of post–9/11 wars, it is a harbinger of what lies ahead—a future of...

What is work that’s worth doing in a life worth living? A revealing exploration of the questions we ask and the stories we tell about our work. Acc...

With a Foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick, author of the bestseller In the Heart of the Sea If you need an appendectomy, he can do it with a stone sca...

The former VA secretary describes his fight to save veteran health care from partisan politics and how his efforts were ultimately derailed by a s...

Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever? Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 ...

Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever? Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 ...

Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Jap...

Author Joseph Wheelan has marvelously captured the story of America's war against the Barbary pirates, our first war against terror and the nations...

As a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for mo...

An incredible four-decade account of murder, power, and corruption in one of the country’s largest police departments   In 1979, the gruesome slayi...

An incredible four-decade account of murder, power, and corruption in one of the country’s largest police departments   In 1979, the gruesome slayi...

From the bestselling author of Unschooled, an exploration of new, low-cost K–12 learning models that favor individualized, learner-centered educati...

Stunning volatility is the new "fact of life" that defines our age. Financial markets fall off cliffs one day, but then stage a recovery the next, ...

The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again. The American economy g...

The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen—and how we can do it again. The American economy g...

Junius Browne and Albert Richardson covered the Civil War for the New York Tribune until Confederates captured them as they tried to sneak past Vic...