Banquet at Delmonico's
Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
Written by Barry Werth

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6778-7 (1-4000-6778-2)

In Banquet at Delmonico’s, Barry Werth, the acclaimed author of The Scarlet Professor, draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwin’s controversial ideas to America in the crucial years after the Civil War.

The United States in the 1870s and ’80s was deep... Read more >

31 Days
Gerald Ford, the Nixon Pardon and A Government in Crisis
Written by Barry Werth

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7868-4 (1-4000-7868-7)

In 31 Days, acclaimed historian Barry Werth takes readers inside the White House during the tumultuous days of August 1974, following Richard Nixon's resignation and the swearing-in of America's "accidental president," Gerald Ford.

The Watergate scandal had torn the country apart. In a dramatic, day-by-day account of the new administration’s inner... Read more >

The Scarlet Professor
Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
Written by Barry Werth

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 5, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49469-4 (0-385-49469-6)

An utterly absorbing chronicle of the life and times of an esteemed college professor and literary critic and the ivory tower sex scandal that broke him, The Scarlet Professor offers a provocative and unsettling look at American moral fanaticism.

During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of... Read more >