Books from Alfred A. Knopf

  • One Came Home
    One Came Home
    By Amy Timberlake

    In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of ...

  • All the Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime
    All the Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime
    By William H. Rehnquist

    The Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court offers a thought-provoking look at the impact of war on America's civil liberties, examining repressive acts by the U.S. government during the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. 30 ...

  • Gogol Collected Tales
    Gogol Collected Tales
    By Nikolai Gogol

    A new translation of stories by a 19th century Russian master. One story is on a madman convinced that a dog can tell him everything he needs to know, another is on a downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by a new overcoat.

  • Orchards: Stories
    Orchards: Stories
    By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Maria Irene Fornes

    Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Maria Irene Fornes. begins to howl . The future father - in - law tears his hair and commands his wife to stop crying , for superiors are not received with red eyes . " You fool , go wash your face ...

  • The American Century: A History of the United States Since the 1890s
    The American Century: A History of the United States Since the 1890s
    By Nancy Woloch, Walter LaFeber, Richard Polenberg

    ... James Timberlake , Prohibition and the Progressive Movement , 1900–1920 ( 1963 ) ; Thomas Kessner , The Golden ... Also useful are John M. Blum , The Republican Roosevelt ( 1954 ) , and William H. Harbaugh , The Life and Times of ...

  • Women and the American Experience
    Women and the American Experience
    By Nancy Woloch

    If these omens were hardly noticed at the end of the century , another trend in American society caught the attention of two relentless commentators , Abigail Adams and Mercy Warren . “ I deprecate that restless spirit , and that ...

  • The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune
    By Richard Kluger, Phyllis Kluger

    Kate's dream of making the Olympic equestrian team is tested by her summer at Langwald's Training Camp

  • America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1984
    America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1984
    By Walter LaFeber, Tisch Distinguished University Professor and M U Noll Professor of History Emeritus Walter LaFeber

    America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1984

  • Tim Page's NAM
    By Tim Page

    Contains action photographs from the Vietnamese conflict, with terse text by the photographer, Tim Page.

  • From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans
    From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans
    By John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss

    No Negro artists measured up to the stature of Henry Ossawa Tanner , who was one of the world's outstanding painters ... In the period after World War I Aaron Douglas began to receive recognition for his black - and - white drawings and ...

  • The Circle: A Novel
    The Circle: A Novel
    By Dave Eggers

    The story of one woman's ambition and idealism becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

  • The Abolition
    By Jonathan Schell

    The Abolition

  • Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work
    Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work
    By Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

    "A book that shows how to find meaning and satisfaction in your work life"--

  • Arsenals of Folly: the making of the nuclear arms race
    Arsenals of Folly: the making of the nuclear arms race
    By Richard Rhodes

    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb: the story of the entire postwar superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United States and the Soviet Union came within scant ...

  • The Essentials of American History to 1877
    The Essentials of American History to 1877
    By Richard Nelson Current

    Here , on September 17 , McClellan , with 87,000 men , threw a series of powerful attacks at Lee's 50,000 . McClellan might have won with one more assault . But his caution asserted itself , and he called off the battle .

  • Mark Twain
    By Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, Geoffrey C Ward

    " Critical opinion of this book hasn't dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages, Twain "makes possible an American literature which would otherwise not have been possible.

  • Private Lives in the Imperial City
    Private Lives in the Imperial City
    By John Leonard

    They came to Dmitri's on Sunday night — their faces maps , their warts gleaming like jewels — because Kojak had been moved to Tuesdays . About Evita , Dmitri's friends were heavily ironic for the halfhour they bothered to tolerate it .

  • A Handbook for Scholars
    By Mary-Claire Van Leunen

    Updated from the 1978 edition to make it compatible with the increased use of computers, guides the academic writer in creating prose that is clear, correct, and interesting.

  • The Photographer's Handbook: A Complete Reference Manual of Techniques, Procedures, Equipment, and Style
    By John Hedgecoe, Leonard Ford

    A classic, bestselling photographer's manual is issued for the first time in paperback, revised and updated.

  • Reading Group Guide to The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan
    By Jennifer Armstrong

    Reading Group Guide to The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan