Ron Powers

In Mark Twain, Ron Powers consummates years of thought and research with a tour de force on the life of our culture's founding father....

As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship....

New York Times-best-selling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia....

As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship....