Humaira Awais Shahid, Kelly Horan
An inspiring personal story by a prominent Pakistani woman activist.More
Evelyn Barish
An explosive biography, decades in the making, reveals the secret past of the Svengali-like academic who held an entire generation in his thrall.More
Lester R. Brown
An inspirational memoir tracing Lester Brown’s life from a small-farm childhood to leadership as a global environmental activist.More
Luis Gutierrez, Douglas Scofield
A frank, often hilarious memoir of political awakening and savvy activism by the ten-term Latino congressman.More
Vincent Bugliosi
For fifty years the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been obscured. This book releases us from a crippling distortion of American history.More
George Orwell, Peter Davison
Appearing for the first time in one volume, these trenchant letters tell the eloquent narrative of Orwell’s life in his own words.More
Benita Eisler
The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them.More
Barbara A. Perry
An unprecedented look at the life of Rose Kennedy reveals the private woman who became a political legend.More
Jonathan Sperber
Karl Marx is a magisterial and defining biography that vividly explores not only the man himself but also the revolutionary times in which he lived.More
Marguerite Holloway
The first biography of a nineteenth-century genius, the man who plotted Manhattan’s famous city grid.More
P. G. Wodehouse, Sophie Ratcliffe
The definitive edition of the letters—many previously unpublished—of England’s greatest comic writer.More
David Roberts
His two companions dead, food and supplies vanished in a crevasse, Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp.More
John Matteson
“Psychologically rich. . . . Matteson’s book restores the heroism of [Fuller’s] life and work.”—The New YorkerMore
Mark Ribowsky
“Brilliant . . . entertaining . . . a thought-provoking portrayal of the multi-faceted Howard Cosell in all his glory and enmity.”—Don Ohlmeyer, Wall Street JournalMore
Andrew Graham-Dixon
“This book resees its subject with rare clarity and power as a painter for the 21st century.”—Hilary Spurling, New York Times Book ReviewMore