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"Cadbury lays out in fascinating detail the historical mystery of the royal heir . . . and uses modern science to try to solve it." —The Wall Street JournalIn 1793, when Marie Antoinette was beheaded at the guillotine during the French Revolution, she left her adored...
Great Britain's legendary twentieth-century prime minister recounts his childhood, military exploits, and political beginnings in this provocative memoir.Before he became the symbol of British resistance and resilience against Nazi Germany during World War II, Winston...
How they changed the world, and how they can change it again.This is the best book on philosophy I have ever read, and I have four master’s degrees. —Philip van Heusen for Readers’ FavoriteFor better or worse, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle engineered the Western...
“The most important book on government policy that I’ve read in a long time.” —David Leonhardt, New York TimesEven as they have become fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and ItalyIn An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick...
A “vast, multifaceted and enchanting” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, “the most important interpreter of Black life in our time” (Eddie S....
We are living in a world where “alternative facts” replace actual facts—and where feelings have more weight than evidence. But how did we get here?In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth...
The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule—Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice."Gruesomely thorough. . . . Others have described...
An enlightening and lively interpretation of an important but neglected historical period.' Kirkus ReviewsIt was a time of revolution.The Roman Revolution describes the little known “crisis of the third century”, and how it led to a revolutionary new Roman Empire....
The Instant New York Times Bestseller"I could not put this extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece: elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and impeccably researched. This book not only sparkles but is destined to be a classic!” —Jay Winik,...