12 Hot Father's Day Books
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Attention, shoppers: Put down the golf gear, step away from the neckties. From an epic retelling of WWII to P.J. O'Rourke's ode to the American automobile, here are 12 books dad will actually read.
Inside Kissinger's Brain
Historian Andrew Roberts' latest book, Masters and Commanders, was published in the UK in September. His previous books include Napoleon and Wellington, Hitler and Churchill, and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. Roberts is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.
In his masterly new book, Kissinger 1973, distinguished historian Sir Alistair Horne spotlights the man at the epicenter of the events that shook the decade.
World War II's Team of Rivals
New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda's books include Ike, Horse People, Country Matters, Ulysses S. Grant, and Charmed Lives.
If you want to learn how the Allies really won the war, Andrew Roberts' impeccable new history retraces the secret meetings between FDR and Churchill.
Whether or not you agree with the term War on Terror there is no doubt that America and its allies are at war. Since victory depends on how well they all work together, the history of multi-national cooperation suggests we are in for a b...
Amanda Foreman is the author of the award-wining best-seller Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. The book has inspired a television documentary, a radio play starring Dame Judi Dench, and a movie starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes. She also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines in both the United States and the United Kingdom. She has been working on her second book for the past eight years called, Our American Cousins.
Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler by Philipp von Boeselager. Published in Britain but not yet in the United States are the short episodic memoirs of Philipp von Boeselager, the penultimate survivor of the July Plot to assassinate Hitler....
Historian Andrew Roberts' latest book, Masters and Commanders, was published in the UK in September. His previous books include Napoleon and Wellington, Hitler and Churchill, and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. Roberts is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.
Americans are in for a treat when the BBC's new adaptation of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit comes to your screens. British costume drama at its absolute finest. The cast is pure Masterpiece Theatre, with absolutely superb performances. ...
Historian Andrew Roberts' latest book, Masters and Commanders, was published in the UK in September. His previous books include Napoleon and Wellington, Hitler and Churchill, and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. Roberts is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.
MASTERS & COMMANDERS: HOW FOUR TITANS WON THE WAR IN THE WEST 1941-45 The four titans are Churchill and FDR and their two top staff generals, Marshall and Alan Brooke.A The account of the war and its intrigues is fresh filled with new re...
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of Young Stalin, winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Biography, and of the forthcoming novel Sashenka, out in November from Simon & Schuster. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
The movie Gomorra about the modern-day Neapolitan Mafia is the most intelligent, gritty and honest film I've seen this year. Almost as much documentary as movie, it depicts an entire society - modern day Naples - in the grip of an evil b...
Historian Andrew Roberts' latest book, Masters and Commanders, was published in the UK in September. His previous books include Napoleon and Wellington, Hitler and Churchill, and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. Roberts is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Rachel Kramer Bussel is the editor of Peep Show: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists, Bottoms Up and over 25 other erotica anthologies, and hosts and curates In The Flesh Reading Series.
Lynn Sherr is a former ABC News correspondent, author of Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words and Tall Blondes, a book about giraffes. She is also co-editor of Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life. Her most recent book, a memoir—Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss and Television News—is out in paperback.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU’s Stern Business School. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
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