Marooned in the Arctic
Travel writer Lawrence Millman and his Inuit companions set out for an uncharted island off the coast of the Canadian Arctic. When the engine on their boat dies, the men find thems... Read More
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The Other D-Day
Popular historians have seldom written about the "other D-Day." But the massive invasion of the French Riviera - just weeks after the Normandy invasion of 1944 - opened up the key ... Read More
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Poacher War
What does India’s Kaziranga National park have that the rest of the country’s decimated reserves do not? Plenty of tigers, for starters. (The world’s highest density.) Fleets... Read More
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Great Leaders: George Patton
As fearless as he was profane, General George S. Patton was among the most competent – and controversial - generals ever to serve in the United States military. Under his inspiri... Read More
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Great Leaders: Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney’s life is one of privilege and achievement. The son of Michigan governor George Romney, he is a graduate of both the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Law Schoo... Read More
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Agatha Christie, A Life
Agatha Christie fully earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Her detective stories have been eagerly devoured by some six generations of readers, and her two unforgettable sleuths... Read More
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Great Leaders: Andrew Carnegie
Like tens of thousands of his countrymen in the twentieth century, Andrew Carnegie fled the grinding poverty of Scotland for the entrepreneurial promise of America. Before the age ... Read More
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The Black Death
In the 1300s, a third of the population of Europe died of plague carried by rat-borne fleas, shocking the medieval world to its foundations. “Very rarely,” award-winning author... Read More
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Getting Stuff (That Matters) Done
In this latest installment of Tom Peters' continued distillation of what he's learned over the course of his career, he turns to what's perhaps the essence of (capital E intended) ... Read More
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Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin Remake the World
In diplomatic history, there is perhaps no better example of the rule of unintended consequences than the Yalta Conference, the 1945 meeting between the president of the United Sta... Read More
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Gary Cooper, A Life In Film
Gary Cooper was demonstrably the greatest star of his era and one of the two or three greatest stars in the history of the sound film, writes legendary film critic and historian Ri... Read More
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Vince Lombardi, A Life
Legendary NFL coach Vince Lombardi’s public image is one of almost superhuman dimensions. His many victories with the Green Bay Packers, culminating with three consecutive Super ... Read More
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Vanderbilt's Biltmore
The original sketch for the Biltmore, George Washington Vanderbilt’s grand estate in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina, laid out plans for a modest Tuscan villa. But a... Read More
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How Cool Is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
On a sweltering afternoon in August 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., a thirty-four-year-old minister from Georgia, stood before a throng of 200,000 people gathered in front of the Li... Read More
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The Pope Vs. Attila the Hun
When Pope Leo the Great rode out of Rome in 452 A.D. to meet Attila the Hun, he had no arms, no army, no armor, no bodyguards, no great retinue of ambassadors and advisers, advance... Read More
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How Cool Is Ronald Reagan?
As the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan ignited and influenced many of the major world events of the twentieth century, from the collapse of the Berlin Wall and t... Read More
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1492: In Columbus' Time
We think of the period when Christopher Columbus traveled to the New World as a Golden Age of exploration and discovery capped by bold journeys across uncharted seas, archaeologica... Read More
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The President and The Madman
Modern Americans are accustomed to "the insanity defense," but what if a madman shot the president? During the Victorian Era? In this brief gripping account, award-winning author B... Read More
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Jefferson's Monticello
Virginia's Monticello was President Thomas Jefferson’s home for the last fifty-six years of his life. The author of the Constitution of the United States spent forty of those yea... Read More
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How Cool Is Michelle Obama?
Michelle Obama is the forty-fourth First Lady of the United States, an inspiration to her own country, and one of the most admired women in the world. She is also the great-great g... Read More
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