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Awarded "Special Recognition" by the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism AwardsFinalist for the American Bar Association's 2018 Silver Gavel Book AwardNamed one of the "10 books to read after you've read Evicted" by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"Essential...
An incredible history of the American WWI pilots who refused to be grounded, enlisting in the British Royal Air Force and fighting for Allied forces.In The First Eagles, award-winning historian Gavin Mortimer engagingly profiles the determined American aviators who...
A fascinating history of the daily lives of Americans in the first fifty years of the new republic, told often in their own words.The years between the patrician leadership of George Washington and the campaign that elected William Henry Harrison marked a period of...
"A delightful travelogue as well as a long-overdue resurrection of one of the most intriguing figures in the history of geographical exploration." —Booklist (starred review)Giles Milton's first book, The Riddle and theKnight, is a fascinating account of the legend of...
For the first time, the definitive account of America's most powerful, most secretive, and most controversial nonprofit, and how far it has strayed from its origins.The National Rifle Association is unique in American life. Few other civic organizations are as old or...
The "groundbreaking translation" of the foundational text of Western political thought, now in a revised and expanded edition (History of Political Thought).Aristotle's masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics. Carnes Lord's lucid...
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated...
Named one of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022"An authoritative and intelligent portrait of the global spread of authoritarianism and its dangers...what sets [this] work apart from books like Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny and Michiko Kakutani's The Death of Truth is...
David Daley’s “extraordinarily timely” (New York Times Book Review) account uncovers the fundamental rigging of our House of Representatives and state legislatures nationwide.Lauded as a “compelling” (The New Yorker) and “eye-opening tour of a process that many...
The astonishing untold story of Violet Gibson, an Irish woman who tried to stop the rise of fascism and change the course of history."Superb. . . . Poignant. . . . A beguiling detective story and, as such, a meditation on the limits of biography. . . . Saunders writes...
