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Ferrell focuses on Grace Coolidge's years in the White House, 1923-1929. Although the president did his best to rein her in--even forbidding her to speak on public issues--Grace quickly became one of the most popular and stylish of...

"Here we are on the banks of the Nueces in the grand camp of the army of occupation." So wrote Lt. Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana when in 1845, not many months before the outbreak of the Mexican War, he joined the white-tented encampment of General Zachary Taylor in Texas. And so he continued writing during the uncertain life of camp and campaign for the better part of the next two years. In these letters to his wife, published here for the first time, Dana provides a detailed, firsthand view of the United States' war with Mexico -- fighting off the Mexicans from within Fort Brown during...

Robert Ferrell, one of America's most distinguished historians, offers the first book-length account of the Coolidge presidency in thirty years, drawing on the recently opened papers of White House physician Joel T. Boone to provide a more personal appraisal of the thirtieth president than has...

The great battle of the Meuse-Argonne was the costliest conflict in American history, with 26,000 men killed and tens of thousands wounded. Involving 1.2 million American troops over 47 days, it ended on November 11--what we now know as Armistice Day--and brought an end to World War I, but at a great price. Distinguished historian Robert Ferrell now looks back at this monumental struggle to create the definitive study of the battle-and to determine just what made it so deadly.

Ferrell reexamines factors in the war that many...

The diary tracks Burns's growing awareness of Nixon's behind-the-scenes maneuverings and worrisome behavior (such as "insane shouting") and reveals how such things undermined his...

The reluctant goblin demigod Sir Tol of Sebacea is hot on the trail of an elusive criminal who somehow managed to compromise the most secure facility on the planet--a trail that leads to...well, let's just say unexpected places.

Meanwhile, his sister-in-law the Tragacanthan Royal Consort is uncovering the tangled, sinister threads of a 900 year-old crime spree the solution to which will change the face of society forever.

Stir in a megalomaniac mage who has discovered a heinous means to immortality and the stage is set for the kind of slapdashery only N'plork can provide.

On a planet where magic and technology are inextricably intertwined, Tol, a gruff inner city Goblin cop, finds himself in the unlikely role of saviour when the world's access to The Slice, a reservoir of magical energy, is threatened by a fiendish criminal plot. And Life is only getting more complicated for Tol as the Chosen One, when his younger brother becomes king by defeating all comers in a network hacking contest, only to then staff his cabinet with the legendary and nefarious hacker, Boogla. And not helping Tol in the least, are the intrepid reporter Selpla and her crew as they...

In book two of the Tol Chronicles, the once thought mythical race of titans, turns out to be not so mythical after all. And as they stream in from all corners of N'plork to occupy their rediscovered underground metropolis, Tol has some very serious peace keeping to do. That is, when he's not busy being a globe-hopping goblin of justice, chasing a would-be assassin, taking down a pretentious crime boss, and foiling an insidious kidnap plot while coping with too much magic, transdimensional ne'er-do-wells, questionable flying machines, and a frequently interrupted romance.