After his father died on 9/11 in the World Trade Center, nine-year-old Matthew John Bocchi began an obsessive quest to find out exactly how he died. He researched video tapes,...
Beyond the Mask How My Tragedy Sparked an Incredible Life: Lessons I Might Never Have Learned
Minutes before Brian Walsh, then just a teenager, heard his beeper go off, calling him to help put out another fire, he was on top of the world. An hour later, after a freak...
Powering Prosperity A Citizen's Guide to Shaping the 21st Century
Since the Global Financial Crisis, we have been approaching a crossroad in modern human history. The top one percent of people own more than half of the world's wealth, while...
The Lives of Isaac Stern
No single American could personify what Henry Luce called the American Century. But over his eighty-one years, Isaac Stern came closer than most. Russian-Jewish parents brought...
Lucky Bones
A case of stolen shoes leads maverick Chicago PI Sam Kelson into something far darker and deeper in the second of this hardhitting crime noir series."My boyfriend's been stealing...
The Apocalypse Factory Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled...
The Greek Connection The Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate
He was one of the most fascinating figures in twentieth-century political history. Yet today, Elias Demetracopoulos is strangely overlooked—even though his life reads like an...
Monopolized Life in the Age of Corporate Power
Over the last forty years our choices have narrowed, our opportunities have shrunk, and our lives have become governed by a handful of very large and very powerful corporations....
The Politics Industry How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
Most people believe that our political system is a public institution with high-minded principles and impartial rules derived from the Constitution. In reality, it has become a...
Illuminating History A Retrospective of Seven Decades
Over a remarkable career Bernard Bailyn has reshaped our understanding of the early American past. Inscribing his superb scholarship with passion and imagination honed by a...
