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Sarge
The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver
Written by Scott Stossel
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Price: $15.99
As founder of the Peace Corps, Head Start, the Special Olympics (with wife Eunice Kennedy Shriver), and other organizations, Sargent Shriver was a key social and political figure whose influence continues to the present day. This authorized biography, exhaustively researched and finely rendered by Scott Stossel (deputy editor of The Atlantic)... Read more >
The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver
Written by Scott Stossel
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Price: $15.99
As founder of the Peace Corps, Head Start, the Special Olympics (with wife Eunice Kennedy Shriver), and other organizations, Sargent Shriver was a key social and political figure whose influence continues to the present day. This authorized biography, exhaustively researched and finely rendered by Scott Stossel (deputy editor of The Atlantic)... Read more >
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Sarge
The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver
Written by Scott Stossel
Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Price: $19.95
As founder of the Peace Corps, Head Start, the Special Olympics (with wife Eunice Kennedy Shriver), and other organizations, Sargent Shriver was a key social and political figure whose influence continues to the present day. This authorized biography, exhaustively researched and finely rendered by Scott Stossel (deputy editor of The Atlantic)... Read more >
The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver
Written by Scott Stossel
Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Price: $19.95
As founder of the Peace Corps, Head Start, the Special Olympics (with wife Eunice Kennedy Shriver), and other organizations, Sargent Shriver was a key social and political figure whose influence continues to the present day. This authorized biography, exhaustively researched and finely rendered by Scott Stossel (deputy editor of The Atlantic)... Read more >
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Arrows of the Night
Ahmad Chalabi's Long Journey to Triumph in Iraq
Written by Richard Bonin
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $27.95
In 1958, Ahmad Chalabi’s wealthy Shiite family was exiled from Iraq after a revolution that ultimately put Saddam Hussein in power. The young Chalabi devoted his life to restoring his family to prominence. His first coup attempt was in 1963 at age nineteen, while on a school break from MIT. His... Read more >
Ahmad Chalabi's Long Journey to Triumph in Iraq
Written by Richard Bonin
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $27.95
In 1958, Ahmad Chalabi’s wealthy Shiite family was exiled from Iraq after a revolution that ultimately put Saddam Hussein in power. The young Chalabi devoted his life to restoring his family to prominence. His first coup attempt was in 1963 at age nineteen, while on a school break from MIT. His... Read more >
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Arrows of the Night
Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War
Written by Richard Bonin
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $12.99
In 1958, Ahmad Chalabi’s wealthy Shiite family was exiled from Iraq after a revolution that ultimately put Saddam Hussein in power. The young Chalabi devoted his life to restoring his family to prominence. His first coup attempt was in 1963 at age nineteen, while on a school break from MIT. His... Read more >
Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War
Written by Richard Bonin
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $12.99
In 1958, Ahmad Chalabi’s wealthy Shiite family was exiled from Iraq after a revolution that ultimately put Saddam Hussein in power. The young Chalabi devoted his life to restoring his family to prominence. His first coup attempt was in 1963 at age nineteen, while on a school break from MIT. His... Read more >
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Arrows of the Night
Ahmad Chalabi's Long Journey to Triumph in Iraq
Written by Richard Bonin
Read by Kaleo Griffith
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $40.00
In 1958, Ahmad Chalabi’s wealthy Shiite family was exiled from Iraq after a revolution that ultimately put Saddam Hussein in power. The young Chalabi devoted his life to restoring his family to prominence. His first coup attempt was in 1963 at age nineteen, while on a school break from MIT. His... Read more >
Ahmad Chalabi's Long Journey to Triumph in Iraq
Written by Richard Bonin
Read by Kaleo Griffith
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $40.00
In 1958, Ahmad Chalabi’s wealthy Shiite family was exiled from Iraq after a revolution that ultimately put Saddam Hussein in power. The young Chalabi devoted his life to restoring his family to prominence. His first coup attempt was in 1963 at age nineteen, while on a school break from MIT. His... Read more >
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Arrows of the Night
Ahmad Chalabi's Long Journey to Triumph in Iraq
Written by Richard Bonin
Read by Kaleo Griffith
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $22.50
In 1958, Ahmad Chalabi’s wealthy Shiite family was exiled from Iraq after a revolution that ultimately put Saddam Hussein in power. The young Chalabi devoted his life to restoring his family to prominence. His first coup attempt was in 1963 at age nineteen, while on a school break from MIT. His... Read more >
Ahmad Chalabi's Long Journey to Triumph in Iraq
Written by Richard Bonin
Read by Kaleo Griffith
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $22.50
In 1958, Ahmad Chalabi’s wealthy Shiite family was exiled from Iraq after a revolution that ultimately put Saddam Hussein in power. The young Chalabi devoted his life to restoring his family to prominence. His first coup attempt was in 1963 at age nineteen, while on a school break from MIT. His... Read more >
Cicero
The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
Written by Anthony Everitt
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2011
Price: $13.99
“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”
—John Adams
He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his somewhat botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted Mark Antony and was master of the smear campaign... Read more >
The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
Written by Anthony Everitt
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2011
Price: $13.99
“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”
—John Adams
He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his somewhat botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted Mark Antony and was master of the smear campaign... Read more >
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The Path to Power
The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
Written by Robert A. Caro
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 23, 2011
Price: $14.99
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to... Read more >
The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
Written by Robert A. Caro
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 23, 2011
Price: $14.99
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to... Read more >
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Nicholas and Alexandra
Written by Robert K. Massie
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $11.99
Written by Robert K. Massie
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $11.99
The story of the love that ended an empire
In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle...
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No Higher Honor
A Memoir of My Years in Washington
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Format: Hardcover, 784 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $35.00
From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes... Read more >
A Memoir of My Years in Washington
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Format: Hardcover, 784 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $35.00
From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes... Read more >
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No Higher Honor
A Memoir of My Years in Washington
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Format: eBook, 784 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $13.99
From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes... Read more >
A Memoir of My Years in Washington
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Format: eBook, 784 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $13.99
From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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No Higher Honor
A Memoir of My Years in Washington
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Read by Condoleezza Rice
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $60.00
From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes... Read more >
A Memoir of My Years in Washington
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Read by Condoleezza Rice
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $60.00
From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes... Read more >
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No Higher Honor
A Memoir of My Years in Washington
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Read by Condoleezza Rice
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $30.00
From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes... Read more >
A Memoir of My Years in Washington
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Read by Condoleezza Rice
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $30.00
From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes... Read more >
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Ben-Gurion
A Political Life
Written by Shimon Peres and David Landau
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
A Political Life
Written by Shimon Peres and David Landau
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
Israel’s current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel’s founding father and first prime minister.
Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace had not yet declared its...
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Ben-Gurion
A Political Life
Written by Shimon Peres and David Landau
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $15.99
A Political Life
Written by Shimon Peres and David Landau
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $15.99
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
Israel’s current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel’s founding father and first prime minister.
Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace had not yet declared its...
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hardcover.
Dutch
A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Written by Edmund Morris
Format: eBook, 912 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2011
Price: $14.99
A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Written by Edmund Morris
Format: eBook, 912 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2011
Price: $14.99
This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore...
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Trudeau Transformed
The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965
Written by Max Nemni and Monique Nemni
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2011
Price: $32.99
This groundbreaking biography continues the story begun in Young Trudeau, taking Canada's legendary Prime Minister from his pro-fascist youth all the way to his entry into federal politics as a crusading Liberal democrat.
When he went to Harvard in 1944, Pierre Trudeau was twenty-five, a recent graduate of the University of Montreal... Read more >
The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965
Written by Max Nemni and Monique Nemni
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2011
Price: $32.99
This groundbreaking biography continues the story begun in Young Trudeau, taking Canada's legendary Prime Minister from his pro-fascist youth all the way to his entry into federal politics as a crusading Liberal democrat.
When he went to Harvard in 1944, Pierre Trudeau was twenty-five, a recent graduate of the University of Montreal... Read more >
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Trudeau Transformed
The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965
Written by Max Nemni and Monique Nemni
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 17, 2011
Price: $19.99
This groundbreaking biography continues the story begun in Young Trudeau, taking Canada's legendary Prime Minister from his pro-fascist youth all the way to his entry into federal politics as a crusading Liberal democrat.
When he went to Harvard in 1944, Pierre Trudeau was twenty-five, a recent graduate of the University of Montreal... Read more >
The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965
Written by Max Nemni and Monique Nemni
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 17, 2011
Price: $19.99
This groundbreaking biography continues the story begun in Young Trudeau, taking Canada's legendary Prime Minister from his pro-fascist youth all the way to his entry into federal politics as a crusading Liberal democrat.
When he went to Harvard in 1944, Pierre Trudeau was twenty-five, a recent graduate of the University of Montreal... Read more >
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Extraordinary, Ordinary People
A Memoir of Family
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $15.00
A Memoir of Family
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $15.00
Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming only the second woman...
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A Covert Life
Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster
Written by Ted Morgan
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $11.99
The extraordinary life of Jay Lovestone is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century. A Lithuanian immigrant who came to the United States in 1897, Lovestone rose to leadership in the Communist Party of America, only to fall out with Moscow and join the anti-Communist establishment after the... Read more >
Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster
Written by Ted Morgan
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $11.99
The extraordinary life of Jay Lovestone is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century. A Lithuanian immigrant who came to the United States in 1897, Lovestone rose to leadership in the Communist Party of America, only to fall out with Moscow and join the anti-Communist establishment after the... Read more >
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Mao
The Unknown Story
Written by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
Format: eBook, 864 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $14.99
“Ever since the spectacular success of Chang’s Wild Swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China’s most notorious modern leader. The expectation has been that she would rewrite modern Chinese history. The wait has been worthwhile and the expectation justified. This is... Read more >
The Unknown Story
Written by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
Format: eBook, 864 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $14.99
“Ever since the spectacular success of Chang’s Wild Swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China’s most notorious modern leader. The expectation has been that she would rewrite modern Chinese history. The wait has been worthwhile and the expectation justified. This is... Read more >
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Hope Is Better Than Fear (e-book original)
Paying Jack Layton Forward
Written by Random House
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $5.99
An e-book original inspired by the vision of late NDP leader Jack Layton with short, personal essays by a diverse line-up of Canadian writers and activists.
HOPE IS BETTER THAN FEAR reflects upon and looks forward on a number of issues that Jack Layton championed over the course of his extraordinary career... Read more >
Paying Jack Layton Forward
Written by Random House
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $5.99
An e-book original inspired by the vision of late NDP leader Jack Layton with short, personal essays by a diverse line-up of Canadian writers and activists.
HOPE IS BETTER THAN FEAR reflects upon and looks forward on a number of issues that Jack Layton championed over the course of his extraordinary career... Read more >
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Nation Maker
Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times
Written by Richard J. Gwyn
Format: Hardcover, 688 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $37.00
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man Who Made Us, by well-known journalist and highly respected author Richard Gwyn.
John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who... Read more >
Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times
Written by Richard J. Gwyn
Format: Hardcover, 688 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $37.00
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man Who Made Us, by well-known journalist and highly respected author Richard Gwyn.
John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
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Nation Maker
Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times
Written by Richard J. Gwyn
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $17.99
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man Who Made Us, by well-known journalist and highly respected author Richard Gwyn.
John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who... Read more >
Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times
Written by Richard J. Gwyn
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $17.99
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man Who Made Us, by well-known journalist and highly respected author Richard Gwyn.
John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who... Read more >
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Ghosts by Daylight
Love, War, and Redemption
Written by Janine di Giovanni
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $26.95
An enthralling, deeply moving memoir from one of our foremost American war correspondents.
Janine di Giovanni has spent most of her career—more than twenty years—in war zones recording events on behalf of the voiceless. From Sarajevo to East Timor, from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, she has been under siege... Read more >
Love, War, and Redemption
Written by Janine di Giovanni
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $26.95
An enthralling, deeply moving memoir from one of our foremost American war correspondents.
Janine di Giovanni has spent most of her career—more than twenty years—in war zones recording events on behalf of the voiceless. From Sarajevo to East Timor, from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, she has been under siege... Read more >
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