This group portrait of the Founding Fathers emphasizes the sometimes intense associations and rivalries among Jefferson, ... more ›
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to ... more ›
Ellisons classic 1952 novel is about a black man from the South who travels to New York City in the 1930s. He becomes involved ... more ›
In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and ... more ›
In THE FIRST TYCOON, T. J. Stiles provides a comprehensive, well-researched account of the life of the "robber baron" ... more ›
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the ... more ›
Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma (great soul), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the ... more ›
At the age of 44, after a catastrophic stroke and several weeks in a coma, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor of Elle magazine, ... more ›
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Pulitzer Prize When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an ... more ›
Toni Morrison deals with the subject of race as it has appeared in American literature--which has, she claims, often ... more ›
