The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hea...
Evan ThomasOn February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor. Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible, yellow newspapers such as William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal whipped Americans into frenzy by...
Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's S...
Evan ThomasUpon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in hi...
In the nation's varied memory, Robert Kennedy is a contradictory figure, a hard-bullying McCarthyite obsessed with Hoffa and Castro but also a gentle, poetry-reading herald of a new age bent on stopping the Vietnam War and lifting up ...
John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father...
Evan ThomasJohn Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, cle...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH • "What was it really like to be Richard Nixon? Evan Thomas tackles...
John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father...
Evan ThomasJohn Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable,...
He was 'Good Bobby,' who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, 'saw wrong and tried to right it . . . saw suffering and tried to heal it.' And 'Bad Bobby,' the ruthless and manipulative bully of countless conspiracy theories. Thomas's un...
John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father...
Evan ThomasJohn Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, cle...
Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's S...
Evan ThomasEvan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean W...
Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and t...
Evan ThomasSea of Thunder is a taut, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the Pacific War that culminates in the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval battle ever fought. Told from both the American and Japanese sides, through the eyes of com...