Bird argues that Jimmy Carter’s radical foreign policy initiatives and stellar domestic legislative record make his presidency important, despite the missteps.
This is a feel-good story in every way, and Elizabeth Letts keeps the momentum lively, sprinkling in interesting historical tidbits that enrich the drama.
Ruth Scurr’s Napoleon gives intriguing and novel insight into a man about whom we thought everything had already been said.
The Life She Wished to Live is the biography that Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has long deserved.
In a must-read book for anyone interested in Abraham Lincoln, a scholar analyzes the president’s most personal notes to himself.
Too often a side character in the story of Henry VIII, Catherine Howard is given new depth and dimension in Russell’s biography of the doomed queen.
In an engrossing new study, Crowther reveals the parallels between Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton—two disparate, talented and troubled poetic geniuses.
Generations of Tomie dePaola’s fans will find hours of delight in The Worlds of Tomie dePaola, a comprehensive study of the author-illustrator’s life and work.
Alexander Graham Bell is best known as the brilliant inventor of the telephone, yet there was a darker side to him, obscured by the glow of his genius.
Like Lab Girl on steroids, The Code Breaker paints a detailed picture of how Nobel Prize-winning scientist Jennifer Douda works.
Brimming with history and discussion topics related to religion and progressivism, it’s an inspired choice for Women’s History Month.
A dynamic discussion of social justice, women’s rights and the often overlooked history of American activism during the early 20th century.
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