Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit

The ups and downs of bourbon in the U.S., from its origins, through Prohibition, to today’s craft distillers.

Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire

This comprehensive biography allows readers to rediscover an extraordinary American realist.

The Second Amendment: A Biography

The history and future of an amendment thwarted and supported by a living Constitution.

Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty

The actress reflects on her struggle to accept her looks and on the true meaning of beauty.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Are we living in the next great era of mass extinction?

Hope on Earth: A Conversation

By Paul R. Ehrlich and Michael Charles Tobias

Hope on Earth: A Conversation

A fresh, albeit pessimistic, look at the serious environmental issues that plague us.

Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years

A soldier-diplomat bears witness to atrocities beyond imagination.

By Adele Levine

Run, Don’t Walk: The Curious and Chaotic Life of a Physical Therapist Inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Levity meets the brutal reality of war in this personal account of working with wounded warriors.