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Bloomsbury presents The Power Worshippers by Katherine Stewart, read by Tosca Hopkins. The inspiration for the documentary God & Country For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Right’s rise to political power. For too long the Religious...

Blind Ambition is an autobiographical account of a young lawyer who accelerated to the top of the Federal power structure to become Counsel to the President at 30 years of age, only to discover that when reaching the top, he had touched the bottom. Most striking in this chronicle is its honesty. Dean spares no one, including himself. But, as Time noted, Dean survived, despite the opposition of powerful foe, because he had no false story to protect and he had an amazing ability to recall the truth.

Learn the inside scoop on Watergate, the Ford Pardon, and the 18-minute Gap. Roger Stone, The New York Times best-selling author of The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ, gives the inside scoop on Nixon’s rise and fall in Watergate in his new book Nixon’s Secrets. Stone charts Nixon’s rise from election to Congress in 1946 to the White House in 1968 after his razor-thin loss to John Kennedy in 1960, his disastrous campaign for Governor of California in 1962, and the greatest comeback in American Presidential history.

One of the most feared Chicago mobsters, Sam Giancana, clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer. He partied with major stars such as Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and did business with agents ranging from the CIA to the Vatican to the shah of Iran. When politician Joe Kennedy gave Giancana the chance to use mob muscle to get his son John elected, Giancana jumped at the task.

Brought to you by Penguin. Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist. In THE...

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama. America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine...

“I’m doing something here that I’ve never done before, presenting the lengthy, raw interviews of my work. In the fall of 2019 through August 2020, I interviewed President Trump 19 times for my second book on his presidency, Rage. I had also interviewed him in 2016 when he was a...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Fascinating…the fullest portrait of Kennedy ever written.” —The Washington Post The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate and detailed look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories, his...

Bloomsbury presents White Rage by Carol Anderson, read by Veronique Olin THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes the continuing conversation about race in America, chronicling the history of the powerful forces opposed to black progress...

The Cowboy President: The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt reveals how his time spent in the Western Dakota Territory helped him recover from an overwhelming personal loss, but more importantly, how it transformed him into the man etched onto Mount Rushmore, a man who is still...

On Mount Washington, it's lack of preparation, not the mountain, that kills. The weather is highly changeable with wind gusts of 140 mph and -35 degree temps. Then there are the avalanches and icefalls. Combine this with inexperienced hikers in t-shirts and flip flops and things can get ugly...

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 COLORADO BOOK AWARD The Bad Old Days of Colorado celebrates the state’s glorious and rowdy past. Many people born and bred here relish just how “bad” things used to be: the terrain, the inhabitants and especially the quality of whiskey. It almost goes without saying...

Did a scandalous love affair cost the British Empire the American Revolutionary War? In Snug As A Flea: Lust, Failure & Time in the American Revolutionary War, author Roger Schatz unveils one of the most intriguing and consequential sidebars of American history. General William Howe was a formidable British Commander-In-Chief tasked with crushing the American rebellion. But instead of delivering the final blow to George Washington's vulnerable Continental Army, Howe repeatedly stalled. Why?

Using the participants’ own words, Jim Weiss brings to life the ideas, battles, and adventures of the men and women who created a free nation. Be there in the courtroom when John Adams takes an unpopular stand for justice by defending British soldiers accused of perpetrating the Boston...

Folkmordet i Rwanda 1994 skördade 950 000 offer. På tre månader. Barn, kvinnor och män från tutsibefolkningen höggs skoningslöst ner med machete eller brändes inne i regelrätta massakrer, pådrivna av hutustyret. I Lejonmyran skildrar Lars Arrhenius, som tillbringade sin barndom i...

Gängen. Den organiserade brottsligheten. Maffian. Hotet mot vårt samhälle har många namn. Det som en gång sågs som en ­mytomspunnen och motorcykelburen dröm om frihet har urartat i en från­stötande mordspiral där tonåringar skjuter ihjäl varandra för en instagramupp­datering...

The breathtaking story of a homicide at the U.S.-Mexico border, the subsequent trial, and the harrowing consequences of America’s longstanding culture of vigilantism and the lies we tell ourselves about immigration Around noon on January 30th, 2023, a 48-year-old man named Gabriel Cuen...

Estados Unidos celebra sus 250 años. En este libro los historiadores de Ad Absurdum narran la historia de Estados Unidos a través de su propia experiencia durante el rodaje de un improbable documental. Anécdotas, entrevistas, accidentes e incluso mucha investigación histórica te llevarán a conocer a los primeros pobladores del continente americano, a los conquistadores españoles que dejaron su huella y a los fundadores de una nueva nación que se convirtió en potencia mundial.

Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than 50 women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God. While previous accounts of his life have been distorted by hagiography or polemical exposé, John Turner provides a fully realized portrait of a colossal figure in American religion, politics, and westward expansion.

New York Times bestselling author Bill Janovitz delivers the definitive story of The Cars, one of the most popular, beloved, and influential bands to emerge from New Wave—with a foreword by Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes. The Cars formed in the late 1970s as an alliance of five journeymen...