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âA brilliant and visionary book.â âAnne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America What has happened to the nation-state? From a prize-winning writer, a sweeping history of this most unquestioned of modern structures and a bold imagining of its futureUntil recently, the system...
The Story of Civilization, Volume V: A history of civilization in Italy from 1304-1576. This is the fifth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.
The vital and untold story of Karl Marx's stamp on American life. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation, but Marx's ideas have inspired a wide range of...
A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In the early...
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doerAbraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for...
A "fascinating" account of the experiences of the Irish emigrants who fled a catastrophic crop failure and built new lives across the Atlantic (Library Journal).Between 1846 and 1851, more than one million peopleâthe potato famine emigrantsâsailed from Ireland to...
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.This remarkable...
â[A] meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published âlast seenâ advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondageâŚa vital work of recovery.â âIlyon Woo, Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of...
"An extraordinary account of the development of a continental cultured class told through three remarkable figures of the late 19th century." âFinancial Times"A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the nineteenth...
In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our moneyâand the people and nations who have surrendered to it.âEye-opening, educational, exhaustively...
