Hardcover Nonfiction

by Theodore H. White · Atheneum

Analyses the 1960 election when John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States.

by Joy Adamson · Harcourt, Brace and World

by William J. Lederer · W.W. Norton and Company

by Louis Nizer · William Morrow and Company

by William L. Shirer · Simon & Schuster

by · Oxford University Press/Cambridge University Press

by W.A. Swanberg · Charles Scribner's Sons

by Alexander King · Simon & Schuster

by Bruce Catton · Doubleday

Volume 3: "Never call retreat" carries the war from Fredericksburg, and through many campaigns to the death of Lincoln and the war's end.

by Gavin Maxwell · E.P. Dutton

A personal narrative of life with two pet otters on the isolated Western Highlands of Scotland.

by Herman Taller · Simon & Schuster

by Romain Gary · Harper and Brothers

by Prosper Montagne · Crown

by Will and Ariel Durant · Simon & Schuster

If there is a linchpin to understanding modern European history, it lies in the period of religious strife & scientific progress between the 1550s & 1650s. In The Age of Reason Begins, Will & Ariel Durant bring together a fascinating network of stories in their discussion of the bumpy road toward the Enlightenment. This is the age of great monarchs & greater artists: on the one hand, Elizabeth the First of England, Philip II of Spain & Henry IV of France; on the other, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Montaigne & Rembrandt. It also encompasses the heyday of Bacon, Galileo, Giordano Bruno & Descartes--the fathers of modern science & philosophy. But it is equally an age of extreme violence, a moment in which all Europe was embroiled in the horrible Thirty Years' War--in some respects, the real First World War. Whatever the case, this is a chapter in cultural history one can't set aside. "Mr & Mrs Durant are admirably lucid...This is a book that can be commended very warmly."--The New York Times.

by David Douglas Duncan · Harper and Brothers

by Robert J. Donovan · McGraw-Hill