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• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American...
The 'Defenestration of Prague', the coup d'etat staged by Protestant Bohemian nobles against officials of the Hapsburg Emperor triggered the Thirty Years War. When Habsburg Spain intervened in support of their Holy Roman Emperor relative, what had started as a...
A longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American in this “impassioned and well-reported case for change ” ( New York Times ). In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and...
Any travel guide to Rome will urge visitors to go the Colosseum, but none answers a simple question: Why is it called the Colosseum?The History of Rome in 12 Buildings: A Travel Companion to the Hidden Secrets of The Eternal City is compelling, concise, and fun, and...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Featured in The New York Times , The Atlantic , Time , New York Newsday , and on Today ! “A nonfiction thriller.”— The Wall Street Journal From New York Times and international bestselling author of the “gripping” (Michael Connelly, #1 New York...
"A wonderfully researched, written, and fast-paced book about the inevitable march toward World War II, and the personalities who made it a reality." —Fred Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun Fat Boy and the Champagne Salesman offers a compelling behind-the-scenes exploration of...
New York Times –bestselling author of The Return of Great Powers : A "compelling" study of the damage done to US national security by Donald Trump (Michael Isikoff, New York Times –bestselling author of Find Me the Votes ). From praising dictators to alienating...
"Introduces us to extraordinary men and women and landmark events that shaped the American character and the future of the nation." —Thomas J. Craughwell, author of Failures of the Presidents and Stealing Lincoln's Body Today Americans remember 1776 as the beginning...
“Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written.” — The Boston Globe “Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject.” — The New York Times The “dean of Cold War historians” ( The New York Times ) now...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All “A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil and gas industry on the world today.”— The New York Times Book Review...