In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts
of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman" (New York Times Book Review) tells a fascinating, true ...
This “richly textured biography” (Chicago Tribune) inspired the mesmerizing documentary, Letters from Baghdad, soon to
air on public television.Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by ...
Equal parts cultural history and memoir, God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man recounts a
traditional way of life—that of the Geechee Indians of Sapelo Island— that is threatened by change, with stories that speak to our deepest notions of ...
The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything—news,
politics, religion, high culture—into one vast public entertainment. Neal Gabler calls them lifies, those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media ...
Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesPoet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth
and legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our collective imagination, his flaws and inconsistencies making him the most approachable of biblical heroes. ...
In the vast literature on Richard Wagner, Ernest Newman's classic four-volume Life remains unsurpassed.Volume III covers the
years 1859-66 including the Tannhäuser debacle in Paris, the crisis with Minna, the first production of Tristan und Isolde and the flight from Munich.
In this classic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower the soldier, bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose
examines the Allied commander’s leadership during World War II. Ambrose brings Eisenhower’s experience of the Second World War to life, showing in vivid detail how the ...
Spanning the turbulent decades between the World Wars, The Embrace of Unreason casts new light
on the darkest years in modern French history. It is a fascinating reconsideration of the political, social, and religious movements that led to France’s move ...
