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"Combines adventure, mystery, and tragedy . . . a 'Who's Who' of explorers who opened the pathway for an ocean-to-ocean America." —St. Joseph News-Press (Missouri) The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the...
“An epic story, filled with an unfolding array of evocatively described landscapes and sharply drawn, unforgettable people.”—Dayton Duncan, writer and producer for Ken Burns documentary films and author of fourteen books on American history and national parksEdwin...
David French warns of the potential dangers to the country—and the world—if we don't summon the courage to reconcile our political differences. Two decades into the 21st Century, the U.S. is less united than at any time in our history since the Civil War. We are more...
A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge—and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later.The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At...
A fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War IIThe Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the...
"Reaches back 500 years to track the city's evolving history . . . political, social, musical, culinary." —New York Times, "Summer's Best Travel Books"New York Times–bestselling and award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant,...
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEA new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall.Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American...
"Well-made arguments backed by archaeology, etymology, and geography" about the origins of the legend "will have readers rooting for a Scottish Arthur." (Kirkus Reviews)Â As writer and activist Adam Ardrey discovered, the reason historians have had little success...
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of China After Mao, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality.No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held...
A major new history of battle in the ancient world, from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empireWhat set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age of Homer...