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Sea of Thunder
Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 15.00Evan Thomas takes us inside the naval war of 1941-1945 in the South Pacific in a way that blends the best of military and cultural history and riveting narrative drama. He follows four men throughout: Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey, the macho, gallant, racist American fleet commander; Admiral Takeo Kurita, the Japanese battleship commander charged... more...
The War Lovers
Little, Brown and Company 2010; US$ 14.99On February 15 th , 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where it was met by some not with alarm but great enthusiasm. A powerful group of war lovers agitated that the United States exert its muscle across the seas. Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge were... more...
John Paul Jones
Simon & Schuster 2010; US$ 16.00John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way." Evan Thomas's minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath... more...
Ike's Bluff
Little, Brown and Company 2012; US$ 14.99Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering lightweight, behind the bland smile and simple... more...
The Man to See
Simon & Schuster 2012; US$ 35.95This bestselling biography of legendary trial lawyer Edward Bennett Williams is "a skillful and lively portrait of a larger-than-life lawyer" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Legendary attorney Edward Bennet Williams was arguably the best trial lawyer ever to practice. Now, for the first time, bestselling author Evan Thomas takes us into the courtrooms of Williams's... more...
The Very Best Men
Simon & Schuster 2012; US$ 16.99Drawing on extensive interviews with old spooks and the social friends and family of his subjects, The Very Best Men is a fascinating narrative that brings to life a crucial piece of American history. In The Wise Men (written with Walter Isaacson), Thomas brought to life a group of men who largely shaped the course of American foreign policy for... more...
The Very Best Men
Simon & Schuster 2012; Not AvailableDrawing on extensive interviews with old spooks and the social friends and family of his subjects, The Very Best Men is a fascinating narrative that brings to life a crucial piece of American history. In The Wise Men (written with Walter Isaacson), Thomas brought to life a group of men who largely shaped the course of American foreign policy for... more...
The Very Best Men
Simon & Schuster 2012; Not AvailableDrawing on extensive interviews with old spooks and the social friends and family of his subjects, The Very Best Men is a fascinating narrative that brings to life a crucial piece of American history. In The Wise Men (written with Walter Isaacson), Thomas brought to life a group of men who largely shaped the course of American foreign policy for... more...
Robert Kennedy
Simon & Schuster 2013; US$ 17.00He was "Good Bobby," who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, "saw wrong and tried to right it . . . saw suffering and tried to heal it." And "Bad Bobby," the ruthless and manipulative bully of countless conspiracy theories. Thomas's unvarnished but sympathetic and fair-minded portrayal is packed with new details about Kennedy's early life and his behind-the-scenes... more...
A Long Time Coming
PublicAffairs 2009; US$ 9.95A New York Times bestseller: The delicious, behind-the scenes chronicle of the epic 2008 presidential election that marked a political and generational transformation more...









