Readers who enjoyed Doris Kearns Goodwin’s No Ordinary Time, Cokie Roberts’s Founding Mothers, and David McCullough’s John Adams will love “this eminently readable … charming and sensitive, yet candid and unflinching joint biography” of America’s original “power couple”: Abigail and John Adams (Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848).

Learn the real stories behind the infamous rebels and bandits of the American West—like Billy the Kid, Jesse James, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

As a hostess, designer, gardener and writer, Edith Wharton set high standards that delighted many. But her perceptive and sometimes indiscreet pen also alienated potent figures like Emily Vanderbilt Sloane and Georgiana Welles Sargent. Author Cornelia Brooke Gilder gives an insider’s glimpse of the community’s reaction to this disruptive star during her tumultuous Lenox decade.

During his two terms as the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded his innermost thoughts and observations. Compiled into one volume by noted historian Douglas Brinkley, they offer a unique understanding of one of our nation’s most fascinating leaders.