The astonishing true story of America's first and greatest "War on Crime." In Public Enemies, Bryan Burrough strips away a thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI...

"Of all the American people , the Quiché region of Guatemala have left us the richest mythological legacy. The story of creation, which appears in the Popol Vuh, which...

“The Raw youth” is a novel by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1875. This novel recounts the intellectual life 19-year-old, Arkady Dolgoruky,...

PrefaceDuring the year 1875 I published under title of The Native Races of the Pacific States what purports to be an exhaustive research into the character and customs...

BEHIND THE LINES: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters -- and One Man's Search to Find Them by Andrew Carroll "The Mission ContinuesŠ" Tour Andrew...

History as it's supposed to be told: true and thrilling.History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story. And,...

In the tradition of Truman, John Adams, and Team of Rivals, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning biographer of Charles Lindbergh, Maxwell Perkins, and Samuel Goldwyn...

Lindbergh was the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic non-stop from New York to Paris, in 1927. This awe-inspiring fight made him the most celebrated men of his day-a romantic...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of...

Al Qaeda, this mysterious organization created by the CIA in the late 1980s, has been accused of atrocious crimes, the most famous of which is the September 11, 2001 attack. But...