Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Larry Engelmann • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaIn this stunning history, soldiers and civilians, both American and Vietnamese, tell what it was like i...

• Author(s): Brendan Gill • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: HistoricalFrom the Back CoverFor over sixty years Brendan Gill has been a contented inmate of the singular institution known as The New Yorker. This ...

• Author(s): Francis Paudras • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicFrom the Back CoverWhat Charlie Parker was to the saxophone, Bud Powell (1924-1966) was to the piano: no jazz pianist can rival his brilliance. But the t...

• Author(s): Elliott Schwartz • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralThis anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contem...

• Author(s): Curt Johnson • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - State & Local - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe Wicked City is an account of Chicago's vice, crime, capitalis...

• Author(s): Samuel Eliot Morison • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: North AmericanFrancis Parkman (1823-1893), struggling against painful chronic illnesses and very largely self-taught in...

• Author(s): Jennifer Dunning • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsAlvin Ailey (1931-1989) was a choreographic giant in the modern dance world and a champion of African-American...

• Author(s): Ned Rorem • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: LGBTQ+When The Paris Diary exploded on the scene in 1966 there had never been a book in English quite like it: Its intimate combination of personal, literary, and s...

• Author(s): Harry Maurer • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam WarFrom a covert 1945 OSS mission to enlist the aid of Ho Chi Minh against the Japanese to the f...

• Author(s): Charles Neider • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: ClassicsWashington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings a...

• Author(s): Robert E. Lee • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: MilitaryFrom the Back CoverGeneral Henry Lee (1756-1818), a.k.a. "Light-Horse" Harry for his swiftness and daring tactics, was...

• Author(s): John Bakeless • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)From the Back CoverEven those well-read in the American Revolution are probabl...

• Author(s): Courtney Browne • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: HistoricalGeneral, minister of war, prime minister, and unrepentant ultranationalist, Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) was the most p...

• Author(s): Theodore Ayrault Dodge • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)Following the course of Civil War campaigns can be taxing for even the mo...

• Author(s): Allan Nevins • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Military - GeneralFrom the Back CoverWhen Colonel Charles S. Wainwright (1826-1907), later Brevet Brigadier General, was commis...

• Author(s): Edward Jablonski • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicThis still unrivaled biography portrays with precision and insight the tragically brief life--from the Brooklyn tenements to Broadway, Hollywood, and Ca...

• Author(s): Garvin Bushell • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIn Jazz form the Beginning, Bushell vividly recounts his musical experiences and reflects on some of the ma...

• Author(s): Benito Mussolini • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: HistoricalHere, for the first time in one volume, are two rare autobiographical works by Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), founder of Fascism and Ita...

• Author(s): Hans Bernd Gisevius • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralWhen on July 20, 1944, a bomb--boldly placed inside the Wolf's Lair (Hitler's headquarter...

• Author(s): Brendan Gill • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Artists, Architects, PhotographersFrank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects. His works--among them Tal...

• Author(s): Lillian Feder • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: ReferenceFrom Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace) to Zeus (chief god of the Greeks), this authoritative handbook covers all the...

• Author(s): Johann Peter Eckermann • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Literary FiguresGerman poet, dramatist, novelist, translator, scientist, and musician, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17...

• Author(s): Charles Neider • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: GeneralScottish novelist, poet, and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a writer of power and originality, who pe...

• Author(s): Stuart Nicholson • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe Blues, that unique form of African-American music, continues to hold a fascination with each successi...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Meyers • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Literary FiguresDistinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of...

• Author(s): Nick Tosches • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralLong before Elvis Presley entered Sam Phillips's Sun Records studio in 1954, rock 'n' roll was being performed and recorded by t...

• Author(s): William Duckworth • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: ReferenceFrom the Back CoverTalking Music is comprised of substantial original conversations with seventeen American experimental composers and ...

• Author(s): Charles Wolfe • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicHuddie Ledbetter (1889-1949), known to millions of fans simply as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous black singer in American history. His close music...

• Author(s): Anthony Cronin • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Literary FiguresIntensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anth...

• Author(s): Gunther Schuller • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralFrom the Back CoverMusings gathers together the essays, speeches, liner notes, dictionary entries, and magazine articles of ...

• Author(s): Katherine Kuh • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryTo quote Robert Hughes, "All critics concerned with American painting will be Kuh's debtors from now on....

• Author(s): Tim Riley • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: GeneralHard Rain ranges over thirty years of Bob Dylan's recordings, films, and concerts to deliver astute insights into-and sometimes heretical judgeme...

• Author(s): Jay Luvaas • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Military - StrategyFrom the Back CoverFrederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia, initiated the Seven Years' War in 1756, o...

• Author(s): Stephen W. Sears • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: MilitaryBy age 35, General George B. McClellan (1826-1885), designated the "Young Napoleon," was the commander of all the N...

• Author(s): Chip Deffaa • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Soul & R&B"Somebody has to pay the dues," says LaVern Baker. Here are the remarkable stories of six dazzlingly talented performers w...

• Author(s): Clinton Heylin • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - RockSince the early days of rock 'n' roll--since Elvis Presley came out of Memphis to startle the world--a whole body of writ...

• Author(s): John Glatt • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: MusicThe history of the Chieftains over the last thirty-five years is the remarkable tale of how an unlikely group of enthusiasts came together to resc...

• Author(s): Gary Giddins • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzGary Giddins, winner of the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, has a following that includes not only jazz enthusiasts but also p...

• Author(s): Eric Nisenson • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralOnce a thriving body of innovative and fluid music, jazz is now the victim of destructive professional and artistic forces, say...

• Author(s): Allen Welsh Dulles • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThis classic account of the German Resistance during World War II remains on...

• Author(s): Brian Moynahan • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: HistoricalGrigory Efimovich Rasputin--drinker, thief, womanizer--arrived in St. Petersburg in 1903 as if from the medieval past . . . tattered, bla...

• Author(s): Guenter Lewy • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General"The subject matter of this book is controversial," Guenter Lewy states plainly in...

• Author(s): Tad Szulc • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: MusicBorn in Poland in 1810, Chopin emigrated to Vienna at age eighteen--and then to Paris, where from 1831 to 1849 he would spend...

• Author(s): Walter Bernstein • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsDuring World War II, Walter Bernstein was a correspondent for the U.S. Army magazine Yank; after the war, he j...

• Author(s): Ralph Berton • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicAs Nat Hentoff says, "Hearing Bix for the first time was like waking up to the first day of spring." Bix has always inspired such acclaim, for he was an unm...

• Author(s): Victor Bockris • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - PunkHere, accompanied by dozens of unique photographs, are the very best of Victor Bockris's infamous interviews, essays, and...

• Author(s): Edward Crankshaw • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralExactly 175 years ago, on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a failed uprising ignited a process that would, one red October, f...

• Author(s): John S. D. Eisenhower • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralDwight D. Eisenhower once remarked that "the history of alliances is a hi...

• Author(s): T. R. Fehrenbach • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)An insider's history of Texas that examines the people, politics, and events which ...

• Author(s): Larry Hicock • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicGil Evans was once described by Miles Davis as "the greatest musician in the world," yet he has remained one of the least known and most underrated innovato...

• Author(s): Frances Hill • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population te...

• Author(s): Max Jones • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzMax Jones, known affectionately as "the Boswell of bebop" (Time Out), was famed in England for nearly four decades of insightful, ardent w...

• Author(s): Gene Lees • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzIn a series of candid interviews with jazz players, composers, and critics, Gene Lees explores racism in the past and present of jazz--bot...

• Author(s): Howard Meyer • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: American - GeneralThomas Wentworth Higginson is little known today, but during his own lifetime his remarkable activism put him...

• Author(s): Charles Neider • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: EssaysMark Twain is best known as one of this country's finest humorists and novelists. As this collection confirms, he was o...

• Author(s): Robert O'Meally • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Music"Billie Holiday deserves a biography in which her musicianship isn't overshadowed by the tragic events of her life. O'Meally has written that book," says...

• Author(s): Graham Payn • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsNoël Coward is remembered as the most witty and elegant of theatrical personalities. He left behind over fifty play...

• Author(s): Benjamin Quarles • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlJohn Brown is an endlessly fascinating historical figur...

• Author(s): Ned Rorem • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: MusicNed Rorem is celebrated as one of America's greatest living composers. His diary of his early years, The Paris Diary and the ...

• Author(s): Nadia Stancioff • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicYears after her death Maria Callas remains one of the most renowned and compelling of all divas. Although much has been written about Callas the prima do...