Retracing an epic eight-hundred-mile journey, the author of Patrick O'Brien: A Life Revealed chronicles the hardships encountered by twelve American sailors who, in 1815, were shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, captured, sold i...

"Marvelous....THE FEUD is popular history as it ought to be written." ---Wall Street JournalNearly every American has heard of the Hatfields and the McCoys. The violent feud between these two families has become shorthand fo...