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The author of Pyrrhus of Epirus "tells the exciting story of one of those competing to succeed Alexander the Great . . . Recommended." —Firetrench  Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) as "the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors."...
An “enthralling and authoritative” (The Wall Street Journal) political history of World War II that opens a window onto the difficulties of holding together the coalition that ultimately defeated Hitler—by the acclaimed author of Appeasement“A fine reassessment of...
"An interesting snapshot of one of the best-known—and least-known—figures in American history," the author of the U.S. national anthem (Washington Post)."As Marc Leepson shows us, there is a lot to know about Francis Scott Key—much of it surprising, and all of it...
A New York Times bestseller: This portrait of the United States at the beginning of World War II is "an unexpected and welcome discovery in a time capsule" (The Washington Post). Â In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported...
Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig investigates the most vexing problem in American democracy: how money corrupts our nation's politics, and the critical campaign to stop it. In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our...
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity...
C Street - where piety, politics, and corruption meet Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside the C Street House, the Fellowship residence known simply by its Washington, DC address. The house has lately been the scene of notorious political...
"This jauntily written, highly convincing analysis . . . argues that women of prehistory were pivotal in a wide range of culture-building endeavors." —Publishers Weekly Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad...
From the New York Times–bestselling author who "should be declared a national treasure . . . a classic in the study of American westward expansion" (The Charlotte Observer).From Thomas Jefferson's birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America's westward...
A captivating history of Paris's famous Hôtel Ritz, set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of WWII, from the New York Times–bestselling author.When France fell to the Germans in June 1940, the legendary Hôtel Ritz on the Place Vendôme—an icon of Paris...