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"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!"

These words of fatherly advice helped shape Ted Turner's remar...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece...

The founder of Blackwater offers the gripping true story of the world’s most controversial military contractor.

In 1997, for...

In this infectiously exciting book, Bryan Magee tells the story of his own discovery of philosophy and not only makes it come a...

Dylan Jones’s engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 inte...

Dr. Roberts searched his archive of corporate documents - shareholder financieal reports, records of management and board meeti...

A bombing victim examines the benefits to society of acknowledging the Unabomber's evil, and shares the ways in which religion ...

"My friend - and now partner - Jorge Paulo and his team are among the best businessmen in the World. He is a fantastic person a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious—an intimate account of the mak...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Ed...

By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of h...

Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhowe...

“Magisterial.”—The New York Times

In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenh...

The Epic New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
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In the New York Times bestseller Everything All at Once, Bill Nye shows you how thinking like a nerd is the key to changing...

An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL ...

The story of two brilliant nineteenth-century scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for th...

Ernest K. Gann’s classic pilot's memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days of commercial aviati...

This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed...

This is a captivating "rags to riches" story, as a young boy discovers during the Depression that hard work and sheer persevera...