From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Paul Ingrassia comes a narrative of America like no other: a cultural history that explores how cars have both propelled and reflected the national experience—from the Model T to the Prius.
A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend
Spike Walker Robertson Dean
From acclaimed author Spike Walker, whose beloved books inspired the hit television show The Deadliest Catch, comes a thrilling true adventure tale set in the Alaskan seas.
A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
Jill Jonnes David Drummond
The demolition of Penn Station in 1963 destroyed not just a soaring neoclassical edifice but also a building that commemorated one of the last century's great engineering feats—the construction of railroad tunnels into New York City. Now, in this gripping narrative, Jill Jonnes tells this fascinating story.
A centennial edition of Wyn Craig Wade's definitive book on the Titanic, complete with new evidence that sheds light on the world's most famous marine disaster.
For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. In The Slave Ship, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker creates an unprecedented history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. Rediker restores the slave ship to its rightful place alongside the plantation as a formative institution of slavery, as a place where a profound and still haunting history of race, class, and modern capitalism was made.
The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad
Walter R. Borneman Norman Dietz
From wagon ruts to a railroad empire, an expansive account of the battle to control the heavily contested transportation corridors of the American Southwest and to build America's greatest transcontinental route.
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael D'Antonio captures the wackiness of the first year of the space race as the Americans scrambled desperately to match the Soviets and President Eisenhower intervened to guarantee that the space program would not be run by the military.
The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
Paul Ingrassia Patrick Lawlor
In the tradition of James Stewart's Disney War and Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker comes journalist Paul Ingrassia with the inside track on the meltdown of the American automobile industry.
