It is difficult to keep in mind that the era of illegal abortions ended only 27 years ago.

Martini Man goes beyond the simple caricature of the boozy lounge singer with a penchant for racy...

Examines the notorious Nazi's life.

In Sideshow, journalist Shawcross presents the first full-scale investigation of the secret and i...

These extraordinary memoirs-written by German Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel in the six weeks befor...

Danish poet and novelist Hans Christian Andersen is best known for the dozens of fairy tales he w...

This anthology collects 51 of Stein's most experimental poems, stories, portraits, and plays.

Meyers illuminates the brief and troubled life of the talented British short-story writer, and re...

This memoir chronicles the Grateful Dead's seminal years: 1965-1985.

Based on interviews with forty American and Filipino survivors who-battling hunger, dysentery, ma...

Malins interviews the pop synthesizer gods themselves and many others in creating this portrait o...

An updated version of the classic, definitive account of the Burma campaign in World War 11.

Infamous for corruption during his reign and for his marriage to the sexually voracious empress T...

An account of Richmond during the Civil War.

The Prussian general and military theoretician Carl Phillip Gottleib von Clausewitz spent much of...

Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BC), soldier, politician, and statesman, set the standard of dicta...

The U-Boat Wars draws on German, British, and American naval archives to illuminate the deadly ba...

Tracing the history of Japanese aggression from 1853 onward, Hoyt masterfully examines the issues...

The World War II commander largely responsible for Russia's victories at Moscow, Stalingrad, Kurs...

This fascinating, authoritative biography traces the extraordinary rise and preipitous fall of Ad...

Revered historian Baker, the author of books on Augustus, Tiberius, and Hannibal, tells the story...

Tap dance innovators and stars Harold and Fayard Nicholas are the focus of this biography that no...

Sheaffer's two-volume biography of American platwright Eugene O'Neill-the second volume of which ...

Illustrated with twenty-five reproductions of Pollock's paintings, the book looks into the passio...

Cook, allegedly the first man to reach the North Pole, recounts his adventures at the top of the ...

A definitive biography of film legend Gary Cooper

Ex-President and explorer Theodore Roosevelt recalls in his journal of a hunting trip in Africa t...

The Last Laugh is the first and only book to take readers deep into the bizarre universe of the s...

Schaff, a Union soldier, gives an eyewitness account of the Confederate retreat and defeat in 186...

This definitive volume celebrates the harmonica's illustrious history, focusing on every musical ...

Silent screen goddess Clara Bow was the embodiment of the Roaring Twenties, Hollywood's first sex...

As musically creative as his performances are destructive, the Who's main man gets the full biogr...

For What It's Worth is a revealing insiders look at an influential and groundbreaking rock group ...

This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian, and novelist Edmund Wilson ...

Riccards focuses on how the abilities, goals, and personalities of presidents have shaped the the...

Legendary soprano Maria Callas, whose singing was as sensational as her life, is the subject of t...

Written with Lead offers a compelling narrative history of twenty-one tragic episodes in American...

This monumental triple biography weaves together the personal and public lives of the triumvirate...

36 stories by one of the world's masters of literature, Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was the founder of Fascism and iron-fisted ruler of Italy for two de...

Africa Explored collects the amazing tales of Europeans in Africa before the wave of colonialism.

The first explorer to reach the South Pole recounts the rigors of his expedition.

This collection covers a range of topics in 20th century cinema, from the Auteur Theory to the co...

What was it like to be part of one of the most famous TV and music groups in pop culture history?...

A visionary painter best known for his murals, Diego Rivera explored Paris, Spain, San Francisco,...

Examining the legendary actor's life, art, and controversial politics within the context of their...

Here is the true story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow-a young sociopathic Southern couple gunn...

Story of a remarkable life and the history of a movement.