33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask
Written by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $14.95
News flash: The Indians didn’t save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. The “Wild West” was more peaceful and a lot safer than most modern cities. And the biggest scandal of the Clinton years didn’t involve an intern in a blue dress.
Surprised? Don’t be. In America... Read more >
Written by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $14.95
News flash: The Indians didn’t save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. The “Wild West” was more peaceful and a lot safer than most modern cities. And the biggest scandal of the Clinton years didn’t involve an intern in a blue dress.
Surprised? Don’t be. In America... Read more >
Our First Revolution
The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers
Written by Michael Barone
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $14.95
In this exciting work of popular history, Michael Barone brings the story of the Glorious Revolution–an unlikely late-seventeenth-century British uprising–to American readers and reveals that, without it, the American Revolution may never have happened. With a strong narrative drive and unforgettable portraits of kings, queens, and soldiers, Barone takes an episode... Read more >
The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers
Written by Michael Barone
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $14.95
In this exciting work of popular history, Michael Barone brings the story of the Glorious Revolution–an unlikely late-seventeenth-century British uprising–to American readers and reveals that, without it, the American Revolution may never have happened. With a strong narrative drive and unforgettable portraits of kings, queens, and soldiers, Barone takes an episode... Read more >
The Conviction of Richard Nixon
The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews
Written by James Reston, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $13.95
The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1971, and ended when President Gerald Ford granted Richard M. Nixon a pardon on September 8, 1974, one month after Nixon resigned from office in disgrace. Effectively removed from... Read more >
The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews
Written by James Reston, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $13.95
The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1971, and ended when President Gerald Ford granted Richard M. Nixon a pardon on September 8, 1974, one month after Nixon resigned from office in disgrace. Effectively removed from... Read more >
Last Flag Down
The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship
Written by John Baldwin and Ron Powers
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $14.95
As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to prowl the world’s oceans and sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider’s... Read more >
The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship
Written by John Baldwin and Ron Powers
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $14.95
As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to prowl the world’s oceans and sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider’s... Read more >
Empire of Blue Water
Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
Written by Stephan Talty
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $14.95
A May 2007 Book Sense Pick
“Talty’s vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean will sate even fickle Jack Sparrow fans. . . . A pleasure to read from bow to stern.”
—Entertainment Weekly
The passion and violence of the age of exploration and empire come to vivid life in this story... Read more >
Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
Written by Stephan Talty
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $14.95
A May 2007 Book Sense Pick
“Talty’s vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean will sate even fickle Jack Sparrow fans. . . . A pleasure to read from bow to stern.”
—Entertainment Weekly
The passion and violence of the age of exploration and empire come to vivid life in this story... Read more >
Hell Hath No Fury
True Stories of Women at War from Antiquity to Iraq
Written by Rosalind Miles and Robin Cross
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $14.95
An engaging collection that uncovers injustices in history and overturns misconceptions about the role of women in war
When you think of war, you think of men, right? Not so fast. In Hell Hath No Fury, Rosalind Miles and Robin Cross prove that although many of their stories have been erased or... Read more >
True Stories of Women at War from Antiquity to Iraq
Written by Rosalind Miles and Robin Cross
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $14.95
An engaging collection that uncovers injustices in history and overturns misconceptions about the role of women in war
When you think of war, you think of men, right? Not so fast. In Hell Hath No Fury, Rosalind Miles and Robin Cross prove that although many of their stories have been erased or... Read more >
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First Into Nagasaki
The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War
Written by George Weller
Edited by Anthony Weller
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $14.95
Lost for more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist George Weller’s legendary dispatches from post-atomic-bomb Nagasaki were discovered after his death by his son, Anthony Weller. Here, this historic body of work is published for the first time. Read more >
The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War
Written by George Weller
Edited by Anthony Weller
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $14.95
Lost for more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist George Weller’s legendary dispatches from post-atomic-bomb Nagasaki were discovered after his death by his son, Anthony Weller. Here, this historic body of work is published for the first time. Read more >
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Don't Tread On Me
A 400-Year History of America at War, from Indian Fighting to Terrorist Hunting
Written by H.W. Crocker III
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2007
Price: $16.95
Don’t Tread on Me is a sweeping, colorful—and controversial—history of America’s wars and foreign and military policy over the past four hundred years. Full of gripping battle scenes and contrarian arguments, this stirring book challenges Americans to rethink what they thought they knew about our nation at war. Read more >
A 400-Year History of America at War, from Indian Fighting to Terrorist Hunting
Written by H.W. Crocker III
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2007
Price: $16.95
Don’t Tread on Me is a sweeping, colorful—and controversial—history of America’s wars and foreign and military policy over the past four hundred years. Full of gripping battle scenes and contrarian arguments, this stirring book challenges Americans to rethink what they thought they knew about our nation at war. Read more >
Lincoln Unmasked
What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe
Written by Thomas DiLorenzo
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2007
Price: $12.95
What if you were told that the revered leader Abraham Lincoln was actually a political tyrant who stifled his opponents by suppressing their civil rights? What if you learned that the man so affectionately referred to as the “Great Emancipator” supported white supremacy and pledged not to interfere with slavery in... Read more >
What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe
Written by Thomas DiLorenzo
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2007
Price: $12.95
What if you were told that the revered leader Abraham Lincoln was actually a political tyrant who stifled his opponents by suppressing their civil rights? What if you learned that the man so affectionately referred to as the “Great Emancipator” supported white supremacy and pledged not to interfere with slavery in... Read more >
Passionate Minds
Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment
Written by David Bodanis
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $13.95
It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Châtelet, a beguiling—and married—aristocrat who would one day popularize Newton’s arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein’s theories. In an era when women were rarely permitted any serious schooling, this twenty-seven-year-old’s nimble conversation and unusual brilliance led Voltaire... Read more >
Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment
Written by David Bodanis
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $13.95
It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Châtelet, a beguiling—and married—aristocrat who would one day popularize Newton’s arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein’s theories. In an era when women were rarely permitted any serious schooling, this twenty-seven-year-old’s nimble conversation and unusual brilliance led Voltaire... Read more >
Thunderstruck
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $14.95
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases... Read more >
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $14.95
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases... Read more >
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The Demon Under the Microscope
From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
Written by Thomas Hager
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $13.95
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic. In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of the drug that shaped modern medicine.
Sulfa saved... Read more >
From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
Written by Thomas Hager
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $13.95
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic. In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of the drug that shaped modern medicine.
Sulfa saved... Read more >
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Driving with the Devil
Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR
Written by Neal Thompson
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $14.95
“Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey and you go to jail.” —Junior Johnson, NASCAR legend and one-time whiskey runner
Today’s NASCAR is a family sport with 75 million... Read more >
Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR
Written by Neal Thompson
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $14.95
“Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey and you go to jail.” —Junior Johnson, NASCAR legend and one-time whiskey runner
Today’s NASCAR is a family sport with 75 million... Read more >
Seaworthy
Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting
Written by T. R. Pearson
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $13.95
Welcome to the daring, thrilling, and downright strange adventures of William Willis, one of the world’s original extreme sportsmen. Driven by an unfettered appetite for personal challenge and a yen for the path of most resistance, Willis mounted a single-handed and wholly unlikely rescue in the jungles of French Guiana and... Read more >
Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting
Written by T. R. Pearson
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $13.95
Welcome to the daring, thrilling, and downright strange adventures of William Willis, one of the world’s original extreme sportsmen. Driven by an unfettered appetite for personal challenge and a yen for the path of most resistance, Willis mounted a single-handed and wholly unlikely rescue in the jungles of French Guiana and... Read more >
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And a Bottle of Rum
A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
Written by Wayne Curtis
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2007
Price: $13.95
One spirit, Ten cocktails, and Four Centuries of American History
And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of ten cocktails—from the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the... Read more >
A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
Written by Wayne Curtis
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2007
Price: $13.95
One spirit, Ten cocktails, and Four Centuries of American History
And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of ten cocktails—from the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the... Read more >
