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"[A] sweepingly detailed history of humanity's passion for the possession of objects...[an] epic chronicle." — Wall Street Journal What we consume has become a central—perhaps the central—feature of modern life. Our economies live or die by spending, we increasingly...
The overlooked Quaker from Rhode Island who won the American Revolution's crucial southern campaign and helped to set up the final victory of American independence at Yorktown Nathanael Greene is a revolutionary hero who has been lost to history. Although places named...
"A detailed and thoroughly engrossing examination of the Restoration's first decade" and King Charles II ( The Wall Street Journal ). The Restoration was a decade of experimentation: from the founding of the Royal Society for investigating the sciences to the...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER * Bestselling author Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning ), brilliantly “chronicles our embrace of anti-intellectualism” (Walter Isaacson) in...
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILE HIRSCH, IN THEATERS JANUARY 2025 A classic memoir that is both an inspiring true love story and a historical espionage thriller, Bau: Artist at War comes at a critical moment when the last survivors of the German concentration...
Americans have long been defined by how they face adversity. This is perhaps nowhere more evident than in how the nation's chief executive has tackled myriad issues upon entering the White House. The ways that U.S. presidents handle the vast responsibilities of the...
From the acclaimed author of A Bridge Too Far comes the unparalleled, classic work of history that vividly recreates the battle that changed World War II—the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that...
The rarely heard stories of the brave African American women at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement. Sisters in the Struggle tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women to the most important social reform in the United States in...
As America continues down its path of polarization, a celebrated journalist tells us the deep story of the red-state/blue-state divide In the wake of Trump's presidency, Republican-led states have joined in an alarming assault on our democratic system. But the drift...
First-rate military history, A War of Frontier and Empire retells an often forgotten chapter in America's past, infusing it with commanding contemporary relevance. It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war. As David J....