Blaine Harden, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03936-8
Although shorter than the Mississippi, the Columbia River, on the border between Washington and Oregon, is many times more powerful. Its energy comes from its steepness--it falls twice as far as the Mississippi in half the distance, and is what so...
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Blaine Harden, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22.5 (333p) ISBN 978-0-393-02882-9
After 30 years of independence, Africa relies on foreign aid that is based more on Western computations than on the domestic needs of countries that lack national identities. Only in Botswana does democracy work; elsewhere, the ``Big Man Disease''...
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Blaine Harden. Viking, $26.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-670-02332-5
With a protagonist born into a life of backbreaking labor, cutthroat rivalries, and a nearly complete absence of human affection, Harden’s book reads like a dystopian thriller. But this isn’t fiction—it’s the biography of Shin Dong-hyuk, the only...
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Blaine Harden. Viking, $27.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-01657-0
Harden delivers another page-turner about a North Korean who got out alive, despite staggering odds, in this real-life thriller that unfolds during the Korean War. (The author’s previous title, Escape from Camp 14, about Shin Dong-hyuk, a North...
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Blaine Harden. Viking, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-42993-7
Journalist Harden (The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot) mines a broad spectrum of archival records, legal documents, and personal interviews to reveal the sordid side of one of Cold War America’s most notable intelligence operatives. In 1946,...
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Blaine Harden. Viking, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-0-525-56166-8
Journalist Harden (Escape from Camp 14) delivers a lively history of the 1847 Whitman Massacre in Oregon Territory, revealing how the killing of Presbyterian missionary Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 11 other white settlers by Cayuse...
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