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"A hard-hitting sermon on the racial divide, directed specifically to a white congregation." —Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewA New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe BestsellerAs the country grapples with racial division at a level not...
"A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house" from the #1 international bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf (Tom Holland, author of Dominion).Named a Best Book of the Year by The Times (London) • New Statesman (London) • Daily...
A "sprawling, experimental, and . . . deeply enthralling" history of the German capital city (Booklist, starred review).A Washington Post Best Book of the Year" Berlin is the most extraordinary work of history I've ever read . . . It's a work of imagination,...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A myth-busting glimpse into the inner workings of the Supreme Court, revealing what we get wrong about the Roberts Court, what the justices' clerks gossip about, and how to fix a court in crisis—from the popular ABC news pundit and top...
"Provides a focused explanation of the reasons the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first federal constitution, went lurching toward collapse." —Jack Rakove, Pulitzer Prize winner, The Washington PostIn 1783, as the Revolutionary War came to a close, Alexander...
"A marvelous book . . . a compelling and a powerful one. Nothing so original has ever been written on European responses to 'the wonder of the New World.'" —Anthony Pagden, Times Literary SupplementPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorA masterwork of history and cultural...
“Riveting . . . There is a wealth of new information here that adds considerable texture and nuance to his story and helps to set Russia apart from previous works.”—The Wall Street JournalAn epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the...
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A landmark work of history explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals—Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison—confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set...
A groundbreaking history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Native American empire.  In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great...
"[A] smoothly written biography" of the misunderstood eighteenth-century French queen executed during the revolution (Publishers Weekly)."An extraordinary life. . . . Ms. Erickson gives us a likable, empathetic women and broadens our understanding of her." —The New...
