The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology.

The two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois from renowned scholar David Levering Lewis, now in one condensed and updated volume William Edward Burghardt Du Bois—the premier architect of the civil rights movement in ...

As Ketchum shows us, it was, then as now, a city whose lifeblood was commerce and whose consuming interest was money. However, money was to be made - and its interests defended - in different ways.

Philip Short's masterly biography shows how the revolution Mao engineered dragged almost a quarter of humankind out of medieval squalor and splendor into the modern age.

Fletcher, an architect adrift in the prevailing economic downturn, is the relative outsider at his wife's family gathering. His sense of dislocation is the somewhat distorting lens through which we view the novel's events.

Richard Slotkin's Abe draws deeply on historical scholarship, but it is not biography.

Explores the civil conflict that tore New York City apart when the American Revolution spread to the thriving colonial metropolis.

" For it was in the Adirondacks that masses of non-Native Americans first learned to cherish the wilderness as a place of recreation and solace.

Philip Short's masterly biography shows how the revolution Mao engineered dragged almost a quarter of humankind out of medieval squalor and splendor into the modern age.

A classic biography, "George Washington: A Life" tells the human story of one of our founding fathers. "Randall's demythologized Washington comes vividly to life".--"Publishers Weekly" (starred).