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A provocative new book that shows us why we must put American history firmly in a global context--from 1492 to today Americans like to tell their country's story as if the United States were naturally autonomous and self-sufficient, with characters, ideas, and...
Historian Richard M. Ketchum's Saratoga vividly details the turning point in America's Revolutionary War. In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Independence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the...
Finalist, ABA Silver Gavel Award for Books The New York Times bestseller that has cemented Elie Mystal's reputation as one of our sharpest and most acerbic legal minds "After reading Allow Me to Retort , I want Elie Mystal to explain everything I don't...
Historian Alexandra Rich presents the full untold story of how one of history's bravest revolts ended in one of its greatest crimes. In 1943, the Nazis liquidated Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. A year later, they threatened to complete the city's destruction by deporting its...
“An inspiring book.… American Visions beautifully shows how remarkably resilient dreams of a better republic remained even in the darkest of times.” —Christoph Irmscher, Wall Street Journal A revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and...
One of Publishers Weekly 's Top 10 Business & Economics Books: A "fascinating" inside look at who's watching you, what they know, and why it matters ( Kirkus Reviews ). A New York Times Bestseller In Dragnet Nation , award-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin...
"A witty, engaging narrative style…[Robb's] approach is particularly engrossing." — New York Times Book Review A narrative of exploration—full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants—that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel...
The "gripping" true story of the founder of psychoanalysis—and how he made it out of Austria after the Nazi takeover ( The Independent ). Sigmund Freud was not a practicing Jew, but that made no difference to the Nazis as they burned his books in the early 1930s....
From the consultant of Netflix's award-winning series The Crown comes the third volume chronicling English history. From William and Mary to Watson and Crick, Robert Lacey's final volume of Great Tales from English History offers up the most stirring English stories...
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and...