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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A landmark work of history explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals—Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison—confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set...
Bill White and the young men of McMinn County answered their nation's call after Pearl Harbor. They won the freedom of the world and returned to find that they had lost it at home. A corrupt political machine was in charge, protected by violent deputies, funded by...
A “hugely entertaining” history of the 1980s New Wave music scene told through new interviews with its biggest artists (Rolling Stone).  Mad World is a compelling oral history that celebrates the New Wave music phenomenon of the 1980s via new interviews with 35 of...
An epic World War II story of valor, sacrifice, and the Rangers who led the way to victory in Europe It is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can make the difference between victory and defeat. This is the dramatic story of sixty-eight...
“An astonishing act of investigation and documentation . . . A terrifying and necessary book . . . deeply heartening as an act of historical reclamation.” —Julian Barnes, Booker Award–winning author of The Sense of an EndingWinner of the National Jewish Book AwardJan...
“Audacious . . . offers a fierce critique of democracy’s most dangerous adversary: the abuse of democratic power by democratically elected chief executives.” (Benjamin R. Barber, New York Times bestselling author of Jihad vs. McWorld )Bruce Ackerman shows how the...
“Mesmerizing . . . no reader will fail to admire the Ovitzes,” a family of Jewish performers whose dwarfism helped them survive Auschwitz (Kirkus Reviews).In this remarkable, never-before-told account of the Ovitz family, seven of whose ten members were dwarves,...
“David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . . . This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and box of tissues near...
“A bold and fresh new biography of one of the most enduringly fascinating monarchs . . . steeped in the latest research and majestically narrated.” —Dan Jones, award-winning historian and New York Times–bestselling author of The PlantagenetsFrom acclaimed historian...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning behind-the-scenes account of the historic Nixon-Kennedy race: “A fascinating story of a fascinating campaign.” —Time This is the dramatic and groundbreaking chronicle that captured the epic clash between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon...