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Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson

by Jan Jarboe Russell – Scribner (December 16, 2014)

A revealing biography of Lady Bird Johnson with startling new insights into her marriage to Lyndon Baines Johnson and her unexpectedly strong impact on his presidency.

Long obscured by her husband's shadow,...

Rebel Yell

by S. C. Gwynne – Scribner (September 30, 2014)

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas ?Stonewall? Jackson became a great and tragic national hero.

Stonewall Jackson...

Pope John Paul II

by Tad Szulc – Scribner (June 17, 2014)

A comprehensive and exclusive biography on one of the most pivotal figures of the 20th century: Pope John Paul II.

As the spiritual head of more than one billion Catholics and a world statesman of immense stature...

The Last American Aristocrat

by David S. Brown – Scribner (November 24, 2020)

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A revelatory biography of literary icon Henry Adams?one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals of his era, who witnessed and contributed to the United...

Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History

by George Howe Colt – Scribner (November 27, 2012)

 G E O R G E H OW E C O L T ? S The Big House is, as the New Yorker said, ?full of surprises and contains more than seems possible: a family memoir, a brief history of the Cape, an investigation of nostalgia,...

My Early Life: 1874-1904

by Winston Churchill & William Manchester – Scribner (May 11, 2010)

Here, in his own words, are the fascinating first thirty years in the life of one of the most provocative and compelling leaders of the twentieth century: Winston Churchill.

As a visionary, statesman, and historian,...

Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air

by Harold Bloom – Scribner (October 10, 2017)

From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra?one of the Bard’s most riveting and memorable female characters?in...

Untouchables

by Narendra Jadhav – Scribner (October 11, 2005)

Every sixth human being in the world today is an Indian, and every sixth Indian is an untouchable. For thousands of years the untouchables, or Dalits, the people at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, have...

The Bonanza King

by Gregory Crouch – Scribner (June 19, 2018)

“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of...

Napoleon

by Steven Englund – Scribner (May 11, 2010)

This sophisticated and masterful biography, written by a respected French history scholar who has taught courses on Napoleon at the University of Paris, brings new and remarkable analysis to the study of modern...

The Train to Crystal City

by Jan Jarboe Russell – Scribner (January 20, 2015)

The New York Times bestselling dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II: ?A must-read?.The Train to Crystal City is compelling, thought-provoking,...