The New York Historical honor goes to Randall K. Wilson, whose “A Place Called Yellowstone” chronicles a landscape “capable ...

Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters, Downey asks us to consider how Congress might channel the will of the people to make ...

Gun smuggling, Swiss bank accounts, Fidel Castro and the New Kensington mafia converge on the pages of Richard Gazarik’s ...

Terry Moogan has written a memoir, "Liverpool Bank Robber to Hollywood Butler," which details his encounters with Lucille Ball, Clint Eastwood, Merv Griffin and George Segal, among others.

“On Air,” a new book by Steve Oney, traces the public radio network’s turbulent history as it once again becomes a political target. A Murder Mystery in the West Bank: In Lawrence Wright ...

With 'The Jews,' 'Daily Show' veteran Rob Kutner graduates from trying to please one curmudgeonly Jew to 14 million of them.

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

This book provides a stark and meticulously detailed account of Nigeria's turbulent period between 1983 and 1993, a decade ...

"United States Currency" has been upgraded and will become a part of the Whitman Collector Series as the ninth edition of the popular reference goes on sale.

Money has shaped civilizations for centuries, but in Medieval Europe, it didn’t work the way we think today. The rise of ...

The Technological Republic. By Alexander Karp and Nicholas Zamiska. Crown Currency; 320 pages; $30. Bodley Head; £25 ...