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Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" was originally written as a caustic rebuttal to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America," yet these songs that begin in conflict actually have much in common, tapping into a deep well of American song writing and patriotism that transcends race, politics, and class.

In 1946, in the midst of global turmoil and after being voted out of office, Winston Churchill made a trip to the unlikely venue of Fulton, Missouri, to deliver an address now known as the Iron Curtain Speech, which defined the dangers of totalitarian Communism. This is the story of that pivotal speech, the college president who made it happen, and the irrepressible man who delivered it.

The acclaimed biography of the great South African statesman, by the author of The Fate of Africa

This book is a quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through a close look at the most extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day: sometimes entire songs, sometimes single words or even the guttural spaces between words that become musical events in themselves.

The opening of the world''s first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, tracks were being laid as far afield as Australia and Cuba, and by the outbreak of World War I, the United States alone boasted over a quarter of a million miles. With unrelenting determination, architectural innovation, and under gruesome labor conditions, a global railroad network was built that forever changed the way people lived. From Panama to Punjab, from Tasmania to Turin, Christian Wolmar shows how cultures were enriched, and destroyed, by one of the greatest global transport revolutions of our time, and celebrates the visionaries and laborers responsible for its creation.

At the height of the roaring ’20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression. Yet after his suicide in 1932, it became clear that Kreuger was not all he seemed: evidence surfaced of fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. In this gripping financial biography, Frank Partnoy recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

Now in paperback: Eva Hoffmans extraordinarily clear-eyed and unsentimental meditation on our relationship to the Holocaust (New York Times Book Review)

A real life version of THE DOGS OF WAR in which a band of mercenaries plots to over throw a venal government of the newly oil-rich nation of Equatorial Guinea

A young physician-reporter chronicles the experiences of doctors and nurses in a besieged city, illuminating the passions, challenges, tragedies, and agonizing moral qunadaries of practicing medicine in a war zone

In the tradition of Didion, Stegner, and McPhee, an intimate portrait of the American West by the best-selling author of The King of California that blends stellar writing with hard-hitting reporting.

“Going green is easy and profitable.” That’s the common refrain from sustainability gurus. In reality, though, many green-leaning businesses, families, and governments are fiddling with the small stuff while the planet burns. Why? Because implementing sustainability is brutally difficult. If we’re going to cut CO2 emissions 80 percent by midcentury, it will take more than a recycling program and some hemp shopping bags. We’ll only solve our problems if we’re realistic about the challenge of climate change. In this witty book, a sustainable business foot soldier with over a decade’s worth of experience illuminates the path.

The first comprehensive investigation into how the religious right came to dominate the child adoption'market', creating a system that legitimizes their social agenda globally and garners them hundreds of millions in revenues and government support, while marginalizing parents

A stark work of graphic journalism that combines first-hand reporting with in-depth research and artistry to depict the murderous rise of Joseph Kony

A century-old manufacturing company is taking a radically innovative approach to management--no layoffs--with provocative implications for every business

From vaudeville to the movies to television, the complete--and often hilarious--history of how Jewish comedians transformed American entertainment

"A great autobiography by one of the most intriguing Cold Warriors...[containing] extraordinary revelations about the inner world of espionage." --Miami Herald

Finally: the truth behind McVeigh's self-serving account of the Oklahoma City bombing

"Les Standiford takes us under the big top and behind the curtain in this richly researched and thoroughly engaging narrative that captures all of the entrepreneurial intrigue and spirit of the American circus." -Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Devil in the Grove

The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both

A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of U.S. Special Forces who were on the front lines against the Taliban and Islamic State at the end of the war in Afghanistan.

Dave Kindred's extraordinary investigation of the death of his grandson yields a powerful memoir of addiction, grief, and the stories we choose to tell our families and ourselves.

Soon to be a major motion picture: the true story of the man put in charge of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund and a testament to the enduring power of family, grief, love, fear, frustration and courage.

This history of China as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to 'Make China Great Again.'

From a prize-winning historian, the story of the powerful men who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well in antebellum New York City -- showing how slavery and corruption built modern New York