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The landmark story of Bush-Gorbachev diplomacy: "No one has ever given as complete and compelling an account of the higher reaches of foreign policy" (Time).December 1989. The Berlin Wall had fallen. Millions across the Eastern Bloc were enjoying new freedoms. And the...
This sweeping medieval history follows the Vikings from Finland to Newfoundland, from Jelling to Jerusalem, and from paganism to Christendom.In AD 800, the Scandinavians were just barbarians in longships. Though they held sway in the north, their status was based on...
THE BEST-SELLING MODERN CLASSIC: The world’s leading urbanist offers a “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author).According to the United...
The untold story of the rise and fall of a short-lived seventeenth-century English colony in South America.At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called...
The untold story of Korean civilians massacred by American soldiers during the Korean War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists who uncovered it.In the fall of 1999, a team of Associated Press investigative reporters broke the news that US troops had massacred a...
Washington Post • 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024A leading journalist and public intellectual explains the long, disturbing history behind the American Right’s embrace of foreign dictators, from Kaiser Wilhelm and Mussolini to Putin and Orban.Why do Donald Trump,...
"Mutual Contempt is at once a fascinating study in character and an illuminating meditation on the role character can play in shaping history." —Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesLyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy loathed each other. Their antagonism, propelled by...
An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history, by the author of The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, and Hitler's People“This is history in the grand style, the kind of large-scale narrative that...
The full, unvarnished truth of the infamous Appalachian family feud— "A masterpiece. . . . The last word on the daddy of American feuds" (James Donovan, bestselling author of The Blood of Heroes and A Terrible Glory)."Fast-paced. . . . Scrupulously documented. . . ....
An authoritative history of the energy crises of the 1970s and the world they wroughtIn 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices and tempers rising across the country. Dark Christmas trees, lowered thermostats, empty gas...