Convinced that the American political system was in danger, James Fenimore Cooper wrote this minor classic of American political theory to express “the voice of simple, honest, and. . . fearless truth” on the American system of government.

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent nearly every Jew to Auschwitz.

Mill’s autobiography deals with but one part of a life, the life of the mind—but a mind which ranks as one of the most remarkable and significant of the nineteenth century.

Horace Porter served as a lieutenant colonel and was attached to Ulysses S. Grant’s staff from April 1864 until the end of the Civil War.

CLEOPATRA'S NOSE is not a miscellany but rather a compilation of essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Daniel Boorstin for several decades.

This is the sequel to and the conclusion of The Manor. It continues the portrayal of a period the author describes as 'the epoch between the Polish insurrection of 1863 and the end of the nineteenth century…

Walter Lord, who combines a love of great events with a passion for the people who lived through them...

G.K. Chesterton argued that Walt Whitman is the greatest American. Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855...

Calman Jacoby - thrifty, industrious, honest-in one sense understood the times in which he was living: Poland was emerging from the Middle Ages and all over the country railroads, highways, and modern cities were being built.

Natty Bumppo in his ninetieth year is still competent as a frontiersman and trapper.

The Selling Edge explores the changing business environment of today's marketplace and identifies the tools and techniques to make you more efficient, more responsive, and, as a result, more successful...

Wild nature burned with volcanic intensity in the core of John Muir's soul.

Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper and proponent of the "do it yourself" idea.

In this fascinating biography, Fred C. Kelly, a former newspaperman, author, and an old friend of the Wrights...