Product Description: The first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book attempts to answer the questions that continue to surround Joseph Smith. Was he a genuine prophet, or a gifted fabulist who became enthralled by the products of his imagination and ended up being martyred for them? 24 pages of photos...read more

Product Description: In a riveting work of historical research, David Blackbourn brings might the period surrounding the days in July 1876 when three young girls claimed to have sighted the Virgin Mary in the fields outside the German town of Marpingen...read more

Product Description: The failure of increasing numbers of young people to attain even minimum levels of literacy signals a catastrophe at the deepest levels of our culture. A Is for Ox is an important and impassioned work that both proves this conclusion and suggests what can be done to change it. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Arguing that the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was unnecessary, a study of the bombing explores the true intentions of the men who authorized its use. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. NYT.

Striking at the very heart of American society, this is a powerful portrait of family allegiance, power and insanity set in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

Product Description: With 76 photographs and 5 maps in text.