At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy.

Myers, the very first recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award, recounts growing up in Harlem in the 1940s and '50s…

Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded...

"Fritz Efaw, fugitive from justice, draft resister, and erstwhile enemy of the people...

In Drawing Fire, Donald Katz profiles Bill Mauldin, the curmudgeonly political cartoonist.

Awesome in its grandeur, scope, and majesty, the book of Genesis resonates in the hearts and minds of listeners today just as thrillingly as it has for over two thousand years.

At an age when most children were reading Babar the Elephant books, Peter Beard was writing and illustrating his own.

In Guru of the New Economy, Donald Katz profiles the seemingly unconventional career path of Paul Hawken, high school drop-out, new-age entrepreneur, and the man the chairman W.R. Grace called "a brilliant, independent thinker - one of the most creative I've seen."

Invisible Man is not only a great triumph of storytelling and characterization; it is a profound and uncompromising interpretation of the Negro's anomalous position in American society.

"It was in 1936 that Jack LaLanne opened the nation's first health club, in Oakland, California...

For more than a century, the short ride home on a train - away from the urgency and innumerable threats of the city - has been essential to a shared vision of safety that in many ways defines the purpose...

The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories collects journalist Don Katz's most fascinating profiles of people whose lives tell us something about business, adventure, sports, politics, culture, and, in a brilliant, ancillary way, ourselves.

Donald Katz visits Hayward, Wisconsin in Logrolling to view the sport and meet some of the logrolling champions.

General William Tecumseh Sherman's great march comes back from the past in this brilliantly imagined, magisterial Civil War novel by the bestselling author of "Ragtime", "Billy Bathgate", "City of God" and "The Book of Daniel."

This audio adaptation focuses primarily on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the key moments that defined his rise to the forefront of the civil rights movement...

In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume...

For decades the male portion of several American generations had concentrated its fantasies of erotic experience on thousands of images of 'the girl next door,' unself-consciously naked and ready to go, and now, it seemed...

At fifty-six, Nan Kempner is not so much youthful and pretty as she is striking and sinuously handsome. She is known - and occasionally resented - in her circle for her astounding thinness...

New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's life blood, it is the heart of American literary culture....