History, Biographies, & Memoirs

An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationshi...

80 pages, Hardcover Andy Warhol, the iconic Pop artist, presented himself as the vacuous, dumb kid, famously saying, "If you want to know all about...

Hardcover, 384 pages A New York Times bestsellerIn this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the Presiden...

Hardcover, 295 pages by Art Spiegelman The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, ...

400 pages, Hardcover By Dvora Hacohen The authoritative biography of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, introduces a new generation to a rema...

Hardcover, 272 pages An illustrated, illuminating insight into the world of illusion from the world’s greatest and most successful magician, captur...

240 pages, Hardcover by Ken Krimstein An NPR Best Book of the YearA Washington Post Best Book of the YearA Chicago Tribune Fall "Best Read"An Alma ...

About Koshersoul: 320 pages, hardcover The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of ...

By Michael Twitty Hardcover, 120 pages Among the staple foods most welcomed on southern tables—and on tables around the world—rice is without quest...

By Susan Dyshel Sommovilla From Hans to Henry--A Holocaust Survivor's Story: A brother's disability, a yellow bicycle, a camera, a little black add...

704 pages, paperback You’ll find everything you need to know about being Jewish in this indispensable, revised and updated guide (2023) to the rel...

By: Isaac Mizrahi Hardcover: 384 pagesINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“In I.M., Isaac Mizrahi puts his life to paper with the same mix of spirit a...

by Deborah E. LipstadtHardcover: 304 pagesPublished: January 29, 2019The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History o...

Adapted by Ari FolmanIllustrations by David PolonskyHardcover, 160 pagesA timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young ...

by Richard Schwartz Hardcover: 332 pages Independent Publisher Book Awards 2018 Bronze Medal Winner - Biography As the Statue of Liberty stood unli...

By Jamie BernsteinHardcover, 400 pagesThe oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the c...

A fresh appreciation of the great musical figure that gives him his due as composer as well as conductor Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter o...

Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam PresslerPaperback: 341 pages Size: 5.2 x 0.8 x 7.9 inchesPublisher: Anchor Books; Reprint edition (February 1, ...

By Doris BergerPaperback, 128 pagesFrom classic films such as Casablanca to anti-Nazi films, comedy, and film noir, American cinema in the 1930s an...

Paperback, 144 pages By Art SpiegelmanAcclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Mausintr...

Paperback, 159 pages by Art Spiegelman The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, ...

Speak Now tells the story of a watershed trial that unfolded over twelve tense days in California in 2010. A trial that legalized same-sex marriage...

Nothing matches the energy of Opening Day: a celebration of springtime, of renewed dreams, and of national heroes past, present, and future. From t...

The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg Nicholas Dawidoff Paperback, 453 Pages Moe Berg is the only major-league baseball player who...