In The Longest Road, one of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large.Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled that its Inupiat Eskimo schoolchildren pledge allegiance to the same flag as the children of Cuban immigrants in Key West, six thousand miles away. And a question began to take shape: How does the United States, peopled by every race on earth, remain united? Caputo resolved that one day he'd drive from the nation's southernmost point to the northernmost point reachable by road, talking to everyday Americans about their lives and asking how they would answer his question.So it was that in 2011, in an America more divided than in living memory, Caputo, his wife, and their two English setters made their way in a truck and classic trailer (hereafter known as "Fred" and "Ethel") from Key West, Florida, to Deadhorse, Alaska, covering 16,000 miles. He spoke to everyone from a West Virginia couple saving souls to a Native American shaman and taco entrepreneur. What he found is a story that will entertain and inspire readers as much as it informs them about the state of today's United States, the glue that holds us all together, and the conflicts that could cause us to pull apart.

Product Description: Philip Caputo's passion for travel and adventure was inspired by the works of Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and Herman Melville, and through the years this passion led to a rugged writer's life, filled with hair-raising experiences in the jungles of Vietnam, the rubble of Beirut, and the savannas of Africa...read more

Product Description: In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history’s ugliest wars, he returned home ― physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone...read more

A personal memoir of the war in Vietnam, in which the author first served as a Marine and which he later covered as a reporter

Product Description: Taking us from the turn of the twentieth century to our present day, from the impoverished streets of rural Mexico to the manicured lawns of suburban Connecticut, from the hot and dusty air of an isolated ranch to New York City in the wake of 9/11, Philip Caputo gives us an impeccably crafted story about three generations of an Arizona family forced to confront the violence and loss that have become its inheritance...read more

Product Description: From the acclaimed author of Acts of Faith comes a blistering new novel about the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border and about the unyielding power of the past to shape our lives.

Focuses on the author's experiences in some of the world's most punishing war zones, from Beirut to Saigon to Afghanistan, and portrays the horrors of modern war through the eyes of a foreign correspondent

A disparate group of men and women confronts their own individual moral crises, fears, and physical dangers as they work to alleviate the hardships and suffering caused by civil war and famine in contemporary Sudan. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

Provides young readers with an in-depth examination of the Vietnam War through a review of its significant events and battles as well as the social unrest caused by it in the United States, with profiles of the major players of the period, including Ho Chi Minh and Richard Nixon.

Recounts the events surrounding the May 4th, 1970 shooting and the investigations that followed, discussing the impact the event has had on the families and friends of the killed and injured students and on the university.

Emotionally and psychologically shattered by his combat experience in Southeast Asia, Chris Starkmann returns from Vietnam, and his inability to cope with postwar civilian life threatens to destroy his marriage and family. Reprint.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author describes his adventure-filled experiences during an expedition to East Africa to uncover the secrets of a near-mythical breed of man-eating lions, immortalized in the film The Ghost and the Darkness, as they attempt to prove that these unique, maneless lions are direct descendants of their prehistoric ancestors. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The author of A Rumor of War recounts his harrowing tales of life as a foreign correspondent. (SEE QUOTE.)

Three men are chosen to smuggle arms into a primitive, barren wasteland of Ethiopia--the Horn of Africa--in a story that explores the dark side of human nature. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

A respected and award-winning photojournalist, Nicholas DelCorso is haunted by his horrifying memories of combat scenes in Vietnam and becomes obsessed with his crusade to expose the terrible realities of war in his photographs. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

At the turn of the century, three teenage boys leave their Maine home at the orders of their father, Cyrus Braithwaite, and embark on the voyage of a lifetime down the Atlantic coast, an adventure that years later reveals remarkable truths about the Braithwaite family to Cyrus's great-granddaughter. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

In three connected stories of psychological suspense, the author of A Rumor of War follows several characters into situations that place them dangerously out of their depth, from Connecticut to Vietnam. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. NYT.

Product Description: In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered...read more

After a lone gunman opens fire on a busload of Asian-American youngsters and then kills himself, forensic psychiatrist Leander Heartwood and police officer Gabriel Chin investigate the crime, a probe that takes them into the dark underside of contemporary society. Reprint.

Three men are chosen to smuggle arms into a primitive, barren wasteland--the Horn of Africa--in this story that reveals the dark side of human nature

Product Description: Indian Country is a sweeping, brave and compassionate story from one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the Vietnam experience.Christian Starkmann follows his boyhood friend, an Ojibwa Indian called Bonny George, from the wilderness of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where they roamed, hunted and fished in their youths, to the wilderness of Vietnam, where they serve as soldiers in the same platoon...read more