Created from a collection of over 300 United States national park maps, ephemera, and brochures spanning over 100 years, Parks is a high-quality casebound chronicle of 100 years of art, cartography, and printed materials in a compelling visual history of America’s national parks through evolving graphic design styles.
Thomas Edison was the most famous American of his time and today is considered the most prolific genius in American history. This new biography, Edison by Pulitzer Prize winning author Edmund Morris is the result of 7 years of research among five million pages of original documents preserved in Edison’s New Jersey laboratory, exclusive access to family papers still held in trust, and the writer’s own acuity for creating deeply layered personal portraits.
Permanent Record is the story of American whistleblower Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the U.S. government’s system of mass surveillance. In this new autobiography he reveals for the first time the story of his life, from his early years to the classified NSA & CIA leaks he published to his current exile in Russia. Available September 17.
Assouline continues to add ambitious & incredibly crafted books to its Ultimate Collection. The latest is a 20-pound, 200 page tome of Golf, created by George Peper, former editor in chief of Golf Magazine. The book follows the award-winning editor as he travels the world detailing the 100 most significant & historically important courses. In it he describes intricate holes that have confounded the game’s best, revisits make & break championship tournaments, and expounds on the unique characteristics of each course.
Short of maybe going to the DMV, there are few things we dread more than airport security and customs. We know we’re only bringing back a few bottles of export-only Blanton’s whiskey and Cantillon beer…
Amazon Prime Day is back again to bring you another iteration of “Black Friday in July” with steep discounts on, well, pretty much everything. Yes, there will be a lot of junk on sale that…
Whether you find them walking down the streets of Brooklyn, on the posts at concert venues or on the bathroom walls in your favorite dives, there’s no denying the artistic impact stickers have had since…
If you’re anything like us, you perpetually suffer from inbox overload. If we’re only reading one email a day, it’s going to be SHIFT. SHIFT is for guys who are not afraid of change. Guys…
Three days before the 1969 Super Bowl, iconic QB “Broadway Joe” Namath promised the nation he would lead the New York Jets to an 18-point underdog victory against the seemingly invincible Baltimore Colts. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of his legendary Super Bowl “Guarantee,” the NFL superstar who first brought show business to sports, is finally ready to tell his life story.
Over Easter weekend 2015, a crew of six English thieves, several in their sixties and seventies, couldn’t resist coming out of retirement for one last career-topping heist. Their target: the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit, in London’s medieval diamond district. The group, dubbed the “Bad Grandpas” by British tabloids, they made a stunning haul of at least $19 million in jewels, diamonds, and cash. Ultimately, the old guys were busted & this book tells the whole tale from the investigators P.O.V.
Instead of sifting through cinematic dogs like “Bright” and “Extinction” to get to the good stuff, you can simply head over to the new Criterion Channel of way more carefully curated gems that will entertain,…
New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated broadcaster Ron Darling has played with or reported on just about everybody who has put on a MLB uniform since 1983, in this new book, he knits together a collection of wild, wise, and wistful baseball stories that connect America’s game to the men who played it, reflecting the full arc of Darling’s life in and around our national pastime.
This debut from ESPN Magazine senior writer Wright Thompson, is a collection of his explorations with sports-world notables who reached or are nearing the ends of their careers. Through relentless research and interviews, Wright digs deep into stories with the likes of Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods as well as many lesser known but amazing athletes, coaches and other compelling characters.
Howard Stern said he would never write another book. But I guess when you have a built-in audience and one of the world’s most wide-reaching platforms to promote a product, well… how could he resist. 20 years after his best selling Private Parts, we are treated to Comes Again, which will focus more on Howard’s interviews and less on his rise to radio supremacy.
Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old actual mobster with no acting experience when he walked onto the set of The Godfather and entered Hollywood history. He played Carlo Rizzi, the husband of Connie Corleone, who set her brother Sonny up for a hit. Hollywood Godfather is Russo’s over-the-top memoir; the story of a life lived on the edge between danger and glamour.
The Perfect Predator is a nail-biting medical mystery, the story of authors—Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, who brought a deadly stomach bug back from their Egyptian vacation—one that turned out to be among the most dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacterias in the world. The amazing story of the technique employed to save Tom’s life is worthy of a book. And this is it.
Drug Warrior is the story of fabled DEA Agent Jack Riley’s decades-long hunt for the world’s most wanted drug lord—Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. Set against the rise of modern international drug trafficking and America’s spiraling opioid epidemic, it is a riveting memoir of life inside the drug wars, and a never-before-seen glimpse of the inner-workings of the DEA.
Written by the NYT best-selling author of Dodge City, Tom Clavin, Wild Bill is The definitive true story of Wild Bill Hickok, the first lawman of the Wild West. The book chronicles his life as a frontier soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, actor, and ladies man. A fabled character who crossed paths with mythical cowboy-era legends like General Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson and other young toughs who were gunning for the sheriff with the quickest draw west of the Mississippi.
It’s this time of year when our wanderlust is at its peak. We’re stuck indoors while temps make even a trip to the mailbox torturous. To combat cabin fever we like to start planning some…
New York Times best-selling author Max Hastings spent the past three years interviewing scores of soldiers, officials, and participants on both sides of the decades-long Vietnam war—Vietcong guerrillas, Southern paratroopers, Saigon bargirls, and Hanoi students alongside infantrymen from South Dakota, Marines from North Carolina, and Huey pilots from Arkansas. He also researched a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle.
