Alexandra Pelosi, creator of the Emmy award-winning film Journeys with George and of Diary of a Political Tourist, makes her literary debut with an intimate look at the frenzied and grueling underbelly of presidential campaigning and the puppet role of the media. Pelosi went along on the campaign trail ... more »

"There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs." ----General Dwight D. Eisenhower For months author F. J. "Bing" West lived among the Marines who besieged the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, and interviewed members of the three US Army units that fought in that factious city ... more »

Le 11 septembre 2001, le XXI e siècle débutait dans l'horreur. Le détournement de quatre avions par des fondamentalistes musulmans entraînait la mort de plus de trois mille civils innocents sur le sol américain. En boucle, la même vision d'apocalypse. En boucle, le même commentaire : « Plus rien ne sera ... more »

Lifting the curtain on a job she did herself for more than 20 years, Blyth has written a damning dissection of how American women's self-confidence and joy in their bountiful lives is undercut by a relentlessly liberal media. She shows how, by playing on women's compassion and ability to be hooked into ... more »

If you are worried about the way America is being governed and want to reclaim the country you know and love, now is the time to take it back. Governor Howard Dean argues that you have the power not just to defeat George W. Bush in this election but to change the future course of America. You Have the ... more »

D ans la famille B., c'est bien simple : il n'y a que des femmes, et elles ont toutes le feu au bon endroit - au bon envers aussi. La mère, la tante, les trois soeurs : Florence, Denise et Sarah, l'aînée, qui se destine au théâtre... En bonne logique, autour des ces buissons ardents, les hommes ne manquent ... more »

The bestselling author of The Orchid Thief is back -- and she's brought some friends -- in this wonderfully entertaining collection of the acclaimed New Yorker writer's best and brightest profiles. Meet more than thirty-five of Susan Orlean's favorite people -- from the well known (Bill Blass and Tonya ... more »

Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in The New Yorker , including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command , he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, ... more »

In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers ... more »

In keeping with its tradition of sending writers out into America to take the pulse of our citizens and civilization, The New Yorker over the past decade has reported on the unprecedented economy and how it has changed the ways in which we live. This new anthology collects the best of these profiles ... more »

This vivid, revealing, riveting day-by-day account of the mind-boggling political drama that gripped the nation for six months -- the first impeachment of an elected president, William Jefferson Clinton -- is a shocking tale of how Washington became lost in the breach of its own partisan impulses. more »

It's been nearly two decades since Chris Matthews' national bestseller Hardball opened a door onto the inner workings of Washington politics, and now the time is ripe for a sharp, new insider's perspective on how the game is played and on the challenges facing the Republican Party in the future. No one ... more »