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Finalist for the 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award“Terrific.” –Timothy Egan, The New York Times “A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath.” –Claudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic From the New York Times bestselling author of Esca... Read More about Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West

With a New ForewordThe heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped.  North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps... Read More about Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

"Superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill." —Washington Post Book World After two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West’s most thoroughly conquered river. To... Read More about A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia

Finalist for the 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award“Terrific.” –Timothy Egan, The New York Times “A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath.” –Claudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic From the New York Times bestselling author of Esca... Read More about Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West

From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's rise to power, and the brave North Korean fighter pilot who escaped the prison state and delivered the first MiG-15 into American hands In The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot... Read More about The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom

"A River Lost is superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill."—Washington Post Book World After a two-decade absence, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thorou... Read More about A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia