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The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbi...

The most widely respected CEO in America looks back on his brilliant career at General Electric and reveals his personal busine...

Livermore went bankrupt for at least the fourth time in 1934. Despite having amassed a fortune of $100 million by1929, Livermor...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chanc...

The author of the bestselling biographies The Lives of John Lennon and Elvis explores the tumultuous life of one of the most co...

The former president draws portraits of major political and military figures of our times--including MacArthur, Shigeru Yoshida...

In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg reignited the conversation around women in the workplace.

Sandberg is chief operating officer ...

Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is no...

Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler chronicles his month of living and extreme fitness training with a Navy SEAL in the New York Times ...

Follow along a Navy SEAL's firsthand account of American heroism during a secret military operation in Afghanistan in this true...

Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

Discover the inside story of the Civil Rights Movement thro...

In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness yea...

Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), acknowledged as one of the great souls of the twentieth century and leader of the Indian independe...

"My purpose," Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how go...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE 2020 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK — BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGR...

Fiona Hill and other U.S. public servants have been recognized as Guardians of the Year in TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year issue...

“A great American success story . . . an endearing and well-written book.”—The New York Times Book Review

Colin Powell is ...

My Years with General Motors became an instant bestseller when it was first published in 1963. It has since been used as a ma...