History in Five

Following Chris Wallace's “riveting” (The New York Times) and “propulsive” (Time) #1 national bestseller COUNTDOWN 1945 comes a deeply reported, revelatory, and thrillingly told account of the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City's transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city's future. Read more about NEW YORK, NEW YORK, NEW YORK by Thomas Dyja here: http://bit.ly/39AAXO2New York, New York, New York, Thomas Dyja's sweeping account of this metamorphosis, shows it wasn't the work of a single policy, mastermind, or economic theory, nor was it a morality tale of gentrification or crime. Instead, three New Yorks evolved in turn. After brutal retrenchment came the dazzling Koch Renaissance and the Dinkins years that left the city's liberal traditions battered but laid the foundation for the safe streets and dotcom excess of Giuliani's Reformation in the ‘90s. Then the planes hit on 9/11. The shaky city handed itself over to Bloomberg who merged City Hall into his personal empire, launching its Reimagination. From Hip Hop crews to Wall Street bankers, D.V. to Jay-Z, Dyja weaves New Yorkers famous, infamous, and unknown—Yuppies, hipsters, tech nerds, and artists; community organizers and the immigrants who made this a truly global place—into a narrative of a city creating ways of life that would ultimately change cities everywhere.

Learn about John Moses Browning, a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of firearms helped ensure victory in numerous American wars and found an important place in American culture. A new biography, THE GUNS OF JOHN MOSES BROWNING, is available now.

Watch Breitbart News Network editor-in-chief Alex Marlow narrate his audiobook BREAKING THE NEWS. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3bqTQ83 A deeply researched investigation of the media's biases from the editor-in-chief of Breitbart News Network. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIOWeb: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audioTwitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudioInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/simon.audio/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SimonAudio

Watch Sebastian Junger discuss what he hopes listeners take away from his audiobook FREEDOM in this behind-the-scenes video from the recording studio. Learn more: https://bit.ly/30qHyX3 A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of TRIBE. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIOWeb: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audioTwitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudioInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/simon.audio/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SimonAudio

Author and National Book Award finalist, Marie Arana, tells us about her newest book Silver, Sword, and Stone, a powerful narrative about the three enduring forces that have defined Latin America, and its people, since pre-Columbian times.

Most people know Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but he saw himself first and foremost as an educator to the deaf. However, his advocacy had a dark side. Katie Booth, author of The Invention of Miracles, discusses the lesser known history of Alexander Graham Bell.

THE LOST BOYS OF MONTAUK is an immersive account of a tragedy at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day, lauded by New York Times bestselling author Ron Suskind as “an honest and touching book, and a hell of a story.”

When newly liberated young women landed in New York, looking for a career in the arts, The Barbizon was where they stayed. This full-service residential hotel housed would-be writers, actresses, and models, allowing them to live independently and in style in the big city. THE BARBIZON by Paulina Bren tells the stories of those women, famous, infamous, and obscure, and explores a turning point in women's history through the life of one illustrious building.

Learn about the friendship between three women who fought for abolition and women's rights in 19th-century America: Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright, and Frances Seward in The Agitators by New Yorker executive editor Dorothy Wickenden.