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The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of th...

In 1804, when Josephine Bonaparte knelt before her husband, Napoleon, to receive the imperial dia...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREDeep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Bra...

Watch your back! . . . How to spot and identify demons and other subversive spirits . . . And wha...

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A gritty, no-holds-barred behind-the-scenes memoir of life as one of the world's top snipersIn Sn...

From a world-renowned cultural historian, an original look at the hidden commonalities among Fasc...

Imagine a pied piper singing in falsetto, wearing sequins, and leading the young people of the na...

Examining competing notions of justice in Bosnia and Rwanda, award-winning Boston Globe correspon...

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best First NovelAgnes Day is mildly discontent. As a child, she...

History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic wi...