📚 The past, present, and everything we argue about on the internet.
From revolutions to revelations, these books decode society’s tangled mess with insight, wit, and maybe a conspiracy theory or two.
Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land In 1927, the Supreme Court...
“A rip-snortin' story of shipwreck, intrigue, horror, courage, risk, luck and will . . . The authors have brought the drama in the Chesapeake alive.” —Publishers WeeklyThe English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home...
This “engrossing history of censorship” is an urgent, timely read for our era of social media trolls, fake news, and free speech debates (The Economist).How restricting speech continuously shapes our culture, props up authorities, and maintains class and gender...
“One of the most influential books of the 20th century,” the landmark study in the history of science with a new introduction by philosopher Ian Hacking (Guardian, UK).First published in 1962, Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ”reshaped our...
“This book is sure to appeal to those still searching for Vietnam War answers that even McNamara, Johnson, and their best and brightest advisers never found.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam...
"Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study…Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." —Financial TimesAn extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral...
“The richest, deepest, most far-ranging, continuously and delightfully surprising book about a single work of theatrical art I’ve ever encountered.” —Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner In the half-century since its premiere, Fiddler on the Roof has had...
The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s classic account of the legendary research lab that gave rise to the Digital Age. In the 1970s and ‘80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses dubbed PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). This brilliant group...
Arthur Ross Book Award, Council on Foreign Relations, Bronze Medal Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize Named a best book of the year by Foreign Affairs and Responsible Statecraft A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider...
The Pulitzer Prize–winning economics journalist explains how America’s capitalist system is broken and how it can be repaired.With a new introduction by the authorThirty years ago, “greed is good” and “maximizing shareholder value” became the new mantras woven into...