Pulitzer traveled to the U.S. as a teenager to fight for pay in the Civil War. He learned English, became a lawyer, got involved in politics and later in journalism. He bought the struggling St. Louis Post-Dispatch, then turned the New York World into a superb daily newspaper by upholding the following fool-proof tenet: "cater to the masses and earn their trust." By the time of his death in 1911, Pulitzer had achieved global fame. Buy the book Today!

The explosive story of the Swedish industrialist and chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and founder of the prestigious Nobel Prize, is seen as a secluded misanthrope prone to melancholy and convinced of life's absurdities in this gracefully written biography by Swedish actor/director Fant. Buy the book Today!



Experience for yourself the adventures of the robber baron who made a fortune in steamships and railroads. Commodore Vanderbilt died in 1877 the world's richest man.

What happened thereafter to the richest family in the world is a remarkable story of money, glamour, and scandal. Buy the book Today!




The Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed
Decide for yourself whether Patrizia Reggiani actually was innocent of the charges she murdered her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci, in 1995, because his spending was wildly out of control or was she was enraged over her glamorous ex-husband's preparations to marry his long time mistress? Buy the book Today!


Chanel. The name alone evokes fashion and perfume, emancipation and allure. In this revealing, intimate biography, Axel Madsenbrings to life Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, who was born an illegitimate pauper and rose to become the reigning queen of fashion, fevolutionizing women's styles forever. Buy the book Today!

by Michael D'Antonio
The rags to riches story of the man who brought America the five-cent chocolate bar. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael D’Antonio (Atomic Harvest; Fall From Grace; The State Boys Rebellion), delivers the first full biography of Milton S. Hershey, to universal critical acclaim. Buy the book Today!
"Raphael's St. George and the Dragon is the work of a genius -- an exquisitely rendered vision of heroism and innocence by one of the greatest painters of all time. Yet the painting's creation is only the beginning of its fascinating story,


In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, thieves posing as cops entered Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and left with a haul unrivaled in the art world, including three Rembrandts and a Vermeer, valued today at $600 million.


A biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner of Boston in the 19th century. An American charmer and art collector, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband Jack kept company with the leading men of the day including Henry James, Henry Adams, John Singer Sargent and Whistler. The Stewart Gardner’s Boston home, which was modeled after a Venetian palace, became the site for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Starred Review. With wonderful attention to detail and real affection for her subjects, Brandon tells the story of Helena Rubinstein (1870–1965), who became the first woman tycoon and self-made millionaire. At the same time, a young French chemist named Eugène Schueller (1881–1957) was making his name in hair dyes (and later collaborating with the Nazis); it was his company, L'Oreal, that swallowed Rubinstein's business. The descriptions of Schueller's political scandals are fascinating, but the story shines when Brandon returns to Rubinstein, a stubborn, spirited woman.

Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden each built and ruled an empire with a multi-million-dollar turnover. Beauty was their business and the deception that it was sustainable through artefact. "There is not an iota of an excuse for a woman of today to lose one bit of her youthful attractiveness," Arden wrote.

Both Rubinstein and Arden were as ruthless as any male industrialist. Their common ground was ambition and tyranny. Neither was interested in sexual equality or generous business practice. "Beauty is power" was Rubinstein's slogan.
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