Jacques Barzun - From Dawn to Decadence

Barzun unpacks a lifetime of learning in this comprehensive overview of history and culture. The distinguished historian reexamines major themes in Western civilization from the Renaissance through ...

Alice Yaeger Kaplan - The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach

Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad.

William Kennedy - Roscoe

The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ironweed recreates the trials and tribulations of Albany life between world wars by following Roscoe, chief architect of Albany's notorious political machine, ...

Gary Giddins - Visions of Jazz: The First Century

Gary Giddins' idiosyncratic series of essays on key figures in 20th-century jazz doesn't pretend to be an all-inclusive guide to the key players in the first century of the music's history; his ...

Charles Rosen - Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New

H.J. Jackson - Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books

This anecdotal study explores the marks readers leave behind in books as they read. Sometimes readers mourn what's not present in the margin: Fermat's last theorem is famously missing because he ...

Robert A. Caro - Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

The most important, acclaimed, and galvanizing political biography of our era--which began with The Path to Power--continues in this national bestseller. In Means of Ascent Lyndon Johnson's almost ...

Edwin Denby - Dance Writings