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A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nationâs top schools should beâbut arenâtâproviding: âThe ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those âsheepâ), pushy parents, and admissions mayhemâ (People).As a professor...
"A riveting . . . saga of survival against formidable odds" (Washington Post) about the survivor of a World War II plane crash in Alaska's Yukon territory.Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their...
The author of Coyote Warrior demolishes myths about America's westward expansion and uncovers the federal Indian policy that shaped the republic. What really happened in the early days of our nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across the entire...
A general-turned-historian reveals the remarkable battlefield heroics of Major General Maurice Rose, the World War II tank commander whose 3rd Armored Division struck fear into the hearts of Hitler's panzer crews.âThe Panzer Killers is a great book, vividly written...
One of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley!The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixonâs White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to comeâwith new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddowâs Peabody Awardânominated podcast âBoth a...
The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism  Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendtâs authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to elevate the naval battles between the French and British to a central place in the history of the American Revolution. He succeeds, marvelously."âThe New York Times Book...
The April 1945 journey of FDR's funeral train became a thousand-mile odyssey, fraught with heartbreak and scandal. As it passed through the night, few of the grieving onlookers gave thought to what might be happening behind the Pullman shades, where women whispered...
In 1877, Standing Bear and his Indian people, the Ponca, were forcibly removed from their land in northern Nebraska. In defiance, Standing Bear sued in U.S. District Court for the right to return home. In a landmark case, the judge, for the first time in U.S. history,...