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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.
“Perhaps never before has there been a book better timed or more urgent.” —Washington Post“Michael Lewis has this incredible ability to zoom in on one person's story, and from there reveals something much bigger about our culture. His books leave you seeing the world...
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Bruce Catton’s acclaimed two-book biography of complex and controversial Union commander Ulysses S. Grant. In these two comprehensive and engaging volumes, preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton follows the wartime movements of...
"Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century."—Sunday Times (London)Richard Overy's bold book begins by throwing out the stock answers to this great question: Germany doomed itself to defeat by...
“[Khan's] was an extraordinary, epic story and Frank McLynn does it full justice in a vivid, page-turning biography.” —The Spectator (UK)A definitive and sweeping account of the life and times of the world’s greatest conqueror — Genghis Khan — and the rise of the...
“Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times“No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger.” —The Financial...
“[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers” by a Pulitzer Prize winner (The New Yorker). In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted to family and the...
From the theologian President Barack Obama cites as one of his favorite philosophers, “the most important book ever written on foreign policy” (Andrew J. Bacevich, from the introduction). Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of...
A photograph—a rare “action shot” documenting a family’s murder during World War II—drives a riveting process of discovery for a gifted Holocaust scholar.In 2009, the acclaimed author of Hitler’s Furies was shown a photograph just brought to the United States...
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.Between the...
"An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history." --Los Angeles Times Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane's Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, and Valiant Ambition, is a historian with a unique ability to bring...