Biography & Memoir
The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus
Paperback
A gifted historian presents a definitive book on Christopher Columbus—his life, his legacy and the many controversies that outlived him
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
Paperback
Howard French’s The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head.” — David Levering Lewis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Paperback
Paul Gauguin’s legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is...
Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales
Hardback
A call to courage and connection from prize-winning poet and champion for the arts and humanities
Reagan: His Life and Legend
Paperback
America’s fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography