The Reivers is a picaresque story that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi....

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I....

A great American classic with many invaluable teaching moments. It continues to touch hearts and minds.

A seminal work of political fiction, as relevant today as when it was first published. Allen Drury has penetrated the world's stormiest political battleground, the United States Senate....

Decades after its original publication, James Agee’s last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic....

During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a US senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition....

Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict....

This work is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results....

An allegorical story of World War I set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment....

Catton, our foremost Civil War historian, recounts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and details the end of hope for the Confederacy.

Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed Hemingway's power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature....

Having inspired a classic film and Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life—and mutiny—on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater....

Author Margaret Coit's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of John C. Calhoun is a towering accomplishment in the writing of American history, powerful in the fullest sense of the word....

Blanche DuBois arrives at her sister Stella's New Orleans apartment seeking refuge from a troubled past but her ethereal spirit irks Stella's husband, the loutish Stanley Kowalski....

The fictionalized account of Louisiana's colorful and notorious governor, Huey Pierce Long, All the King's Men follows the startling rise and fall of Willie Stark, a country lawyer....

This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of John Muir, the rugged individualist and passionate protector of the wild....

In 1943, the American Major Victor Joppolo finds himself the civil affairs officer - the mayor - of a small town in Sicily....