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...
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...