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From revolutions to revelations, these books decode society’s tangled mess with insight, wit, and maybe a conspiracy theory or two.
New York Times–Bestselling Author:“Plenty of fascinating backstory, both about [Bobby] Jones’ young life as a golf phenom and about the sports-crazy 1920s.” —Booklist A Los Angeles Times Bestseller In the wake of the stock market crash and the dawn of the Great...
If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, "many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical." As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow...
The acclaimed author of The Terror examines the revolutionary transformations of the late eighteenth century in this “humane, compelling account” (The Independent, UK).In 1789, the fates of France, the nascent United States, and their common enemy Britain, lay...
Why American founding father John Adams feared the political power of the rich—and how his ideas illuminate today's debates about inequality and its consequencesLong before the "one percent" became a protest slogan, American founding father John Adams feared the power...
"Fascinating, the way all great family stories are fascinating."—Robert Gottlieb, New York Times Book ReviewThis is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the world wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the...
AS SEEN ON MSNBC's MORNING JOEA groundbreaking work from one of America’s leading legal scholars, No Democracy Lasts Forever audaciously asserts that the only way a polarized America can avoid secession is to draft a new Constitution.The Constitution has become a...
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before his inauguration.Kennedy, the...
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023"A welcome addition to a public conversation…that has largely produced more heat than light." —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book ReviewFrom a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful...
Hailed as “the most provocative and disturbing analytical indictment . . . of America’s role in Vietnam” by the New York Times, this is Mary McCarthy’s riveting account of her journeys to Saigon and Hanoi    In 1967, the editor of the New York Review of Books sent...
The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of...