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"For a real bargain, while you're making a living, you should make also a life." --Aaron Bronson In 1920, in small-town America, the ubiquitous dry goods store--suits and coats, shoes and hats, work clothes and school clothes, yard goods and notions--was usually owned...
"A magisterial new history."—The New York Times“Endlessly fascinating.”—SlateA groundbreaking history of sexual emotion, sexual activity, gender relations, marriage and the family--and how Christianity has interacted with this panorama of human concernsFew matters...
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can...
The New York Times–bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas? shares a "no-holds-barred exegesis on the naked cynicism of conservatism" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).In his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America votes for politicians...
This account of British life in the wake of World War I is "social history at its very best . . . insightful and utterly absorbing" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). As the euphoria of Armistice Day in 1918 quickly subsided, there was no denying the carnage that the Great...
"Fascinating. . . . Will have a very special appeal to readers [interested] in the evolution of the English language, Roman history, and medieval British history." —Midwest Book ReviewThe end of empire in Britain was both more abrupt and more complete than in any of...
"Slack engagingly reveals how the Federalist attack on the First Amendment almost brought down the Republic . . . An illuminating book of American history." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review In 1798, with the United States in crisis, President John Adams and the...
"Strikingly original. . . . Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar." —The EconomistAdam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets, and uses it to examine our idea...
From the theologian President Barack Obama cites as one of his favorite philosophers, "the most important book ever written on foreign policy" (Andrew J. Bacevich, from the introduction).Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of...
"A stirring saga of a New England family . . . Sankovitch has made a compelling contribution to Massachusetts and American history." —Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street JournalThe Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in...