AL Biography Catalog
TitleEleanor
AuthorMichaelis, David
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
Category Full 2HISTORY / United States/19th Century
Category Full 3BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
ISBN-139781439192016
On Sale10/06/20
Title StatusAS
US Price$35
CDN Price$47
Pages720
Cover StatusFinal
New York Times Bestseller

Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a “stunning” (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America’s longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world’s most widely admired and influential women.
TitlePresident McKinley
AuthorMerry, Robert W.
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1HISTORY / United States/19th Century
Category Full 2HISTORY / United States/Civil War Period
Category Full 3HISTORY / United States/General
ISBN-139781451625455
On Sale11/06/18
Title StatusAS
US Price$23
CDN Price$32
Pages624
Cover StatusFinal
Acclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a “measured, insightful biography that seeks to set the record straight…a deft character study of a president” (The New York Times Book Review) whose low place in the presidential rankings does not reflect the stamp he put on America’s future role in the world.
TitleStanton
AuthorStahr, Walter
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
Category Full 2HISTORY / United States/19th Century
Category Full 3HISTORY / United States/Civil War Period
ISBN-139781476739311
On Sale08/28/18
Title StatusBO
US Price$23.99
CDN Price$32.99
Pages768
Cover StatusFinal
New York Times bestselling author Walter Stahr tells the story of Edwin Stanton, who served as Secretary of War in Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet. “This exhaustively researched, well-paced book should take its place as the new, standard biography of the ill-tempered man who helped to save the Union. It is fair, judicious, authoritative, and comprehensive” (The Wall Street Journal).
TitleA Mind at Play
AuthorSoni, Jimmy
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
Category Full 2TECHNOLOGY / Electronics/Digital
Category Full 3COMPUTERS / Information Theory
ISBN-139781476766690
On Sale07/17/18
Title StatusAS
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages384
Cover StatusFinal
Winner of the Neumann Prize for the History of Mathematics

"We owe Claude Shannon a lot, and Soni & Goodman’s book takes a big first step in paying that debt." —San Francisco Review of Books

"Soni and Goodman are at their best when they invoke the wonder an idea can instill. They summon the right level of awe while stopping short of hyperbole." —Financial Times

"Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman make a convincing case for their subtitle while reminding us that Shannon never made this claim himself." —The Wall Street Journal

“A charming account of one of the twentieth century’s most distinguished scientists…Readers will enjoy this portrait of a modern-day Da Vinci.” —Fortune
TitleThe Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg
AuthorRandolph, Eleanor
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business
Category Full 2BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
Category Full 3BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership
ISBN-139781476772219
On Sale03/16/21
Title StatusBO
US Price$29
CDN Price$41
Pages496
Cover StatusFinal
This authoritative and anecdote-filled biography of Michael Bloomberg—2020 presidential candidate and one of the richest and famously private/public figures in the country—is a “masterful work…[and] an absolutely first-rate study of leadership in business, politics, and philanthropy” (Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize­–winning author) from a veteran New York Times reporter.
TitleGathering Blossoms Under Fire
AuthorWalker, Alice
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/General
Category Full 2BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
Category Full 3LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American/African American & Black
ISBN-139781476773155
On Sale04/12/22
Title StatusAS
US Price$32.5
CDN Price$44
Pages560
Cover StatusFinal
From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s activist, and intellectual.
TitleAll the Powers of Earth
AuthorBlumenthal, Sidney
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
Category Full 2HISTORY / United States/Civil War Period
Category Full 3BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
ISBN-139781476777283
On Sale09/03/19
Title StatusAS
US Price$35
CDN Price$47
Pages784
Cover StatusFinal
Lincoln’s incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed in this “compelling, original, and elegantly written” (Michael Beschloss, New York Times bestselling author) third volume of the “magisterial” (The New York Times Book Review) Political Life of Abraham Lincoln series, following A Self-Made Man and Wrestling with His Angel.
TitleAuthor in Chief
AuthorFehrman, Craig
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government/Executive Branch
Category Full 2HISTORY / United States/General
Category Full 3BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
ISBN-139781476786391
On Sale02/11/20
Title StatusAS
US Price$30
CDN Price$39.99
Pages448
Cover StatusFinal
“One of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years” (The Wall Street Journal) and based on a decade of research and reporting, this is a delightful new window into the public and private lives America’s presidents as authors.
TitleThe Best Presidential Writing
Author
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader press
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government/Executive Branch
Category Full 2HISTORY / United States/General
Category Full 3LITERARY CRITICISM / American/General
ISBN-139781476788531
On Sale10/20/20
Title StatusAS
US Price$30
CDN Price$39.99
Pages512
Cover StatusFinal
A sweeping and groundbreaking treasury of the most essential presidential writings, featuring a mix of the beloved and the little-known, from stirring speeches and shrewd remarks to behind-the-scenes drafts and unpublished autobiographies.
TitleReaganland
AuthorPerlstein, Rick
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1HISTORY / United States/20th Century
Category Full 2POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies/Conservatism & Liberalism
Category Full 3BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
ISBN-139781476793054
On Sale08/18/20
Title StatusAS
US Price$40
CDN Price$54
Pages1120
Cover StatusFinal
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

From the bestselling author of Nixonland, The Invisible Bridge, and Before the Storm comes the dramatic conclusion of how modern conservatism took control of American political power.