The author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City (winner of the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize) now gives us the startling, behind-the-scenes story of the struggle between President Obama and the US military to remake Afghanistan.
A suspense novel, a political thriller, a novel of discovery--Little America opens in Boston today and tells the story of a man in search of the truth about his father's past, a past locked away in the C.I.A.'s code of silence.
Little America: A Novel
Toddlers will delight in this book filled with rhyming riddles, framed by brightly painted clues, that introduce elements that make each state so special.
American hero and explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. tells the story of his first journey through Antarctica and the founding of a series of camps and bases referred to as “Little America.” Over the years, many similar areas were ...
"The ribbon of Western road is a metaphor for the heart's strange longings, providing hard, sometimes hilarious, lessons on the improbablitity of escape, the possibility of salvation, and the elusiveness of self-knowlege"--from page [4] of ...
What role does the US play in shaping Australian politics? Australia is one of the US's most staunch supporters: Australia has sent troops to Iraq, and is an ally in...
Includes nearly a hundred color photographs and a Foreword by Kumail Nanjiani. Nearly everyone in America came from somewhere else. This is a fundamental part of the American idea—an identity and place open to everyone.