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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.
This "extraordinary" memoir of a black man's coming of age in Nazi Germany is "an entirely engaging story of accomplishment despite adversity." —Washington Post Book WorldIn Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir—an astonishing...
"A fine history of a French family that enjoyed great influence—and deservedly so—in the early trans-Mississippian West" from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author (Kirkus Reviews)."If not for evocative histories such as Christian's, America's French heritage might molder...
The groundbreaking expose of an international conspiracy to protect Nazi war criminals—now with new material and an introduction by Phillip Sands. As Russian forces closed in on Berlin, and Hitler's premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In...
An analysis of demagogues in American political history and an argument for restoring the constitutional safeguards to protect against them."It is hard to imagine understanding the Trump presidency and its significance without reading this book." —Bob Bauer, former...
The military expert and author of Leadership presents "the most thoughtful analysis yet of America's recent conflicts—and future challenges" (Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal). Why have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power...
A history of weather forecasting, and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possibleBy the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the...
"An illuminating portrait" of the palace―its architecture, its scandals, its politics, and its role in France's tumultuous history (The New York Times Book Review). The story of Versailles is one of historical drama, under the last three kings of France's old regime,...
This cultural, political, and social history of tea presents a "fascinating picture of tea's impact on the lives of millions of people around the world." (Publishers Weekly) From Darjeeling to Lapsang Souchon, from India to Japan—a fresh, concise, world-encompassing...
A look at corporate authoritarianism that William Shirer called "the best thing I've ever seen on how America might go fascist democratically."In 1980, US capitalist politics wore a "nice-guy mask," a troubling disguise to cover up a creeping despotism in which the...
The April 1945 journey of FDR's funeral train became a thousand-mile odyssey, fraught with heartbreak and scandal. As it passed through the night, few of the grieving onlookers gave thought to what might be happening behind the Pullman shades, where women whispered...