This is the biggest, grandest, most sprawling epic ever told, filled with battles and hardship, courage, determination, daring voyages into the unknown, and eye-opening discoveries... From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of FDR, Winston Churchill, and Somerset Maugham, Wilderness At Dawn is the sprawling, roughhouse epic of the unsung heroes, heroines, and rogues who tamed the rugged continent that became our country. Here is a masterpiece of...

Explores the settling of the American West through the experiences of the ordinary people--explorers, fur traders, fortune seekers, Chinese immigrants, outlaws and homesteaders.

The French-born author discusses his family's wartime experience, the fall of France, the resistance, and persecution of the Jews during W.W. II.