Jonathan: 5623 books
The Lost Battles
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
From one of Britain’s most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian—the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned...
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity--passionate, risk-taking,...
Farther Away
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination,...
Soul of the Age
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal...
What's Not to Love?
The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Perhaps all of Jonathan Ames’ problems–and the genesis of this hilarious book–can be traced back to the late onset of his puberty. After all it can’t be easy to be sixteen with a hairless “undistinguishable from that of a five year old’s.”
This wonderfully entertaining memoir...
The Disappointment Artist
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In a volume he describes as "a series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces," Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—from western films and comic books, to the music of Pink Floyd and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these "voyages...
by Jonathan Sperber
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Karl Marx is a magisterial and defining biography that vividly explores not only the man himself but also the revolutionary times in which he lived.
Between his birth in 1818 and his death sixty-five years later, Karl Marx became one of Western civilization’s most influential political philosophers....
Susan Sontag
The Complete Rolling Stone Interview
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
“One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling, which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment . . . and I don’t believe it’s true. . . . I have the impression that thinking is a form...
by Jonathan Franzen
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections
The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them.” For the past twenty-five...
Shattered
Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate,...
Brothers, Rivals, Victors
Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
**“One of the great stories of the American military.”—Thomas E. Ricks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Generals
The intimate true story of three of the greatest American generals of World War II, and how their intense blend of comradery and competition spurred Allied forces to victory.**
Dwight...
by Jonathan D. Sarna
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Finalist, 2012 National Jewish Book Awards
A riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory under his command, and the reverberations of that decision on Grant’s political career, on the nascent...
Bernie Sanders
Sus principales ideas para Estados Unidos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 18, 2019
El famoso senador independiente de Estados Unidos, con una carrera de treinta y cinco años en el servicio público, hizo campaña para la presidencia de Estados Unidos, movilizando a gente de todo el país, poniendo la justicia económica, racial y social en el centro de atención.
El objetivo...
The Theft of Memory
Losing My Father, One Day at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
A Library Journal Best Book of 2015
National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation’s poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father’s life and work as a nationally...