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The definitive biography of the influential abolitionist, ardent social reformer and conservationist, and the visionary designer of Central Park.Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about....
Pulitzer Prize Finalist: "Hansen's principal injunction to Americans to understand how others view them and their country's policies is timely and urgent." —The Washington PostWinner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan AwardA New York Times Notable...
Jimmy Carter remembers Christmas in Plains, Georgia, the source of spiritual strength, respite, friendship, and vacation fun in this charming portrait.In a beautifully rendered portrait, Jimmy Carter remembers the Christmas days of his Plains boyhood—the simplicity of...
An American's diary of life in a WWII Japanese internment camp examining the moral challenges encountered in conditions of confinement and deprivation.Langdon Gilkey was a young American teacher at Yenching University near Peking, China, when the Japanese military...
* A New York Times Editors' Choice * Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 *I am not talking about surviving. I am not talking about becoming human, but about how I came to realize that I had always already been human. I am writing about all that I wanted to...
The moving, untold family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact on our world.Abraham Zapruder didn't know when he ran home to grab his video camera on November twenty-two, 1963, that this single spontaneous...
In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing...
"An utterly compelling account of the African Americans who played a crucial and dangerous role in the invasion of Europe. . . . Long overdue." —Tom BrokawIn the early hours of June six, 1944, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, a unit of African-American soldiers,...
"I'm getting a life's lesson about grace from my mother in the ICU. We never stop learning from our mothers, do we?" UNFORGETTABLE is a son's spirited, affecting, and inspiring tribute to his remarkable mother and the love between parent and child. When NPR's Scott...
A "devastating . . .inspirational" memoir about finding strength during despair from the holocaust survivor who created the New England Holocaust Memorial (The Today Show).Steve Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to...