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The New York Times bestselling author of Saving Freedom and cohost of Morning Joe assesses President Abraham Lincoln’s deft timing for the Emancipation proclamation and its consequences for America. Abraham Lincoln’s pragmatism combined with a devotion to higher ideals made him the American...

You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know by Philip Gourevitch is a forthcoming title from Farrar, Straus and Giroux...

The definitive biography of the British naval commander who masterminded the evacuation of Dunkirk and was the operational genius behind the Allied landings at Normandy Admiral Bertram Ramsay may not be the most familiar World War II commander, but he was critical to the Allied victory. He...

A hard-nosed investigation into Hollywood’s most enduring mystery For thirty-five years, it has been a riddle which has gripped the world. Part love story, part tragedy, it has all the elements of a Hollywood blockbuster: a beautiful actress, a handsome leading man, a brooding sidekick … and...

Resolving for the murder of a child beauty queen and a botched investigation The killing of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey—found in the basement of her family home in Boulder, Colorado, with a smashed skull and a garrote placed around her neck—remains one of America’s most...

Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine...

A forthcoming Holt nonfiction title to be published on March 9...

An illuminating new life of the peerless thinker, artist and author of Ways of Seeing Tom Overton got to know John Berger around 2010, after he gave his archive to the British Library: a kind of homecoming to the city of his birth, after a life lived mostly in self-imposed exile in Switzerland...

A gripping art history cold case: the previously untold story of Victorine Meurent, forgotten painter and famous muse to artists from Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec, and the modern search for her lost paintings When former art student and journalist Summer Brennan learned that Édouard Manet’s...

Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of...

ロシア軍で戦う日本人義勇兵が、戦地での実体験を綴る。 西側諸国が報じないロシア軍の内情、激戦地で行われた過酷な突撃作戦、最新鋭ドローンが空を埋め尽くす現代戦の実態…。

Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth I ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age. From Elizabeth's intriguing, long-standing affair with Robert Dudley, Earl...

Willie Nelson is a giant of country music. He has sold more than 50m records, written hits for Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison and Neil Young, and was part of the country supergroup The Highwaymen with Johnny Cash. Now aged 92, he has written a warm, funny, entertaining reflection on the twilight of...

“Super K is downright hilarious. Who would have thought a biography of Henry Kissinger could be so laugh-out-loud revealing about the great pontificator? But Barbara Keys has written an incisive and entertaining intellectual history of Kissinger’s quest to shape his reputation.” — Kai...

From multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most influential Australian photographer of the 20th century and creator of many iconic images that have passed into our national imagination. WINNER of the National Biography Award...

登録者200万人のYouTube「バキ童チャンネル」の大人気コンテンツ「青学落研の話」を春とヒコーキの盟友・町田の手でエッセイ化した連載が、待望のAudible化。バキ童チャンネルではまだ語られていない、青学落研のエピソードが盛りだくさん！町田と春とヒコーキのふたりを含めた、落研部員7名での“OB座談会”の様子も収録。ぐんぴぃ「青学落研をやり続けるために芸人になりました」土岡「黒歴史にするべき時間をなんでこんなに喋ってるんだろう」2010年春、青山学院大学に入学した町田。

A moving reflection on the author's father—plus a cat!—this is a beautiful short work of family history from one of our most beloved, iconic writers. Originally published in the New Yorker in 2019, and now presented in a full, unabridged form, Abandoning a Cat is a poignant, self-reflective...

フィリピン・ホロ島の反政府イスラム・ゲリラ組織に拉致され、日本政府からも見捨てられた一人の日本人青年を救うため、命を賭け、1年2カ月もの時間を費やした。もとより一銭の得にもならず、売名でもあらず己の本能ともいえる義侠心の命ずるままの行動であったのだが、彼はそんな野暮なことは口にしなかった。では、何のため？　彼はこう答えた。すべては胸に空いた隙間を埋めるため――山口組分裂を機に断腸の思いで渡世から足を洗った男はいまだ胸にたぎる情熱、その燃焼先を求めてフィリピンへと渡った。

山口県岩国の生家と父母、小学校代用教員の時の恋と初体験、いとことの結婚、新聞懸賞小説の入選、尾崎士郎との出会いと同棲、東郷青児、北原武夫とつづく愛の遍歴……数えて百歳。

The late, legendary performer and activist’s candid reflections on American race relations and social movements, based on previously unpublished conversations with the award-winning historian Harry Belafonte was more than a bestselling folk singer and Hollywood’s first Black matinée idol...