A close-up on one of American history's most splendid events, JFK's inaugural week, and the creation of the speech that inspired a generation and brought hope to a nation....

How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages? the visitor from Harvard asked...

In this dramatic and moving biography, Sylvia Nasar recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose brilliant career was cut short by schizophrenia…

In this posthumous work, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist explores the untold heroism and pathos of the worst American military disaster since Little Big Horn, and the politics that set it in motion.

From the bestselling author of "Benjamin Franklin" comes the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available--a fully realized portrait of this extraordinary human being and great genius.

From the bestselling author of "Benjamin Franklin" comes the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available--a fully realized portrait of this extraordinary human being and great genius.

The Fountainhead studies the conflict between artistic genius and social convention, a theme Ayn Rand later developed into the idealistic philosophy knows as Objectivism.

From one of the world's greatest living historians comes an incomparable, detailed account of our history since 1500, from what Western man wrought from the Renaissance and Reformation to the present day.

A unique perspective on one of history's greatest leaders is offered by an acclaimed military historian and the man who knew Ike best--his son, John.

First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time: the building of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Available for the first time in audio, Fulton Oursler's 1949 novel about the life of Jesus Christ was written with powerful simplicity and set against a rich historical background.

The evil experiment of the demented scientist, Griffin, holds his countrymen in his power, but the scientist crumbles under his own evil plot...

"Isaac's Storm" is the superb narrative of the extreme hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, on a late summer day in 1900, leaving at least 8,000 people dead.

This is history on a grand scale - an audiobook about politics, war, and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas.

he extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had.

At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity.

The first and possibly greatest of the English metaphysical poets, and best known for his later...

Lou Gehrig was the Iron Horse, baseball's strongest and most determined superstar, struck down in his prime by a disease that now bears his name. But who was Lou Gehrig, really?

The startling story of the Plymouth Colony, from the flight to religious freedom to the war that ravaged New England, is told by the bestselling author of "In the Heart of the Sea."

Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt.

Amedeo Kaplan seems just like any other new kid who has moved into the town of St. Malo, Florida, a navy town where new faces are the norm. But Amedeo has a secret, a dream: More than anything in the world, he wants to discover something -- a place, a process, even a fossil -- some treasure that no one realizes is there until he finds it.

Actress Grace Kelly was swept away when the handsome Price Rainier...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Price of Loyalty" takes listeners inside the defining conflict of our era: the war between the United States and a growing, shadowy army of terrorists armed with weapons of alarming power.

From Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind comes a new consideration of George W. Bush in the White House.

The book of Genesis, written at the beginning of recorded history, remains a thoroughly unique...