Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
Joseph J. Ellis
From the prize-winning author of the bestselling FOUNDING BROTHERS and AMERICAN SPHINX, a masterly and highly ironic examination of the founding years of our country. The last quarter of the...
This is the third volume in a history of nuclear weaponry that began with the award-winning THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB, but despite its subtitle, this installment might also be described as a...
The Dire Warning—Churchill’s First Speech as Prime Minister
John Lukacs
On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons to deliver his first speech as Prime Minister. Europe was in crisis: Three days earlier, Germany had invaded France and the Low...
Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
Tom Brokaw
In THE GREATEST GENERATION, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in BOOM!, one of...
An engaging audio presentation of the two most important documents in American history.The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was the...
The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration. Through these tales of adventure, edited by American Book Award...
The brilliant young managing editor of Newsweek paints a rich portrait of a friendship that saved the twentieth-century free world. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill shared a...
The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground
Robert D. Kaplan
Bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan takes listeners inside the American Airforce, Navy, and Army in this companion to his groundbreaking Imperial Grunts.In this extraordinary audiobook Kaplan...
James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science -- how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what...
In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from the obscurity of the Essex countryside to the forefront of Henry VIII's spectacular court. Born Jane Rochford in about 1505, this...
