Books

A Revealing New Biography of a Pathbreaking Female Figure in Modern Indian History

Traces One Family’s Outsized Influence on Its Community and a Century of National Retail Trends in the Department Store Industry

The Story of Louise McNeill’s Growing Years on Her Family Farm, Told through the Circadian Rhythms of Rural Life

This definitive biography of Ida Tarbell, one of America’s great journalists, is highly readably and widely acclaimed.

A compelling account of the life of Pennsylvanian writer Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958). Through the examination of the tension between her seemingly contradictory domestic and professional identities, Jan Cohn illuminates precisely why Rinehart’s accomplishments are so remarkable.