Biography & Memoir
The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Hardback
A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.
William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
Hardback
A major new biography of one of America’s most famous military figures.
"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
Hardback
A ground-breaking historical work that explicates Thomas Jefferson’s vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery and race.
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Paperback
From a thirty-year veteran of The New Yorker comes the most irreverent and helpful book on language since Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Oracle of Oil: A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future
Hardback
A biography of Marion King Hubbert, one of the twentieth century’s most influential energy experts, who was dubbed the “father of peak oil”.