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"Read this book to understand human nature." (Preet Bharara) • "An amazing story, well told.” (Anderson Cooper) • "A masterful telling." (Dahlia Lithwick)From CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, a revelatory account of how one man, four teenagers, and a struggling city...
"[A] fast-paced and elegant. . . . stimulating . . . first-rate biography . . .of a much-neglected figure in early American religious history." —Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth...
"Gripping. . . . An intrinsically thrilling tale." —New York Times Book ReviewIt was the Perfect Storm, but instead of raging far out in the Atlantic, the Great Hurricane of 1938 left a wake of death and destruction across seven states. Sudden Sea re-creates that...
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal“Magisterial . . ....
The Affair of the Poisons, as it became known, was an extraordinary episode that took place in France during the reign of Louis XIV. When poisoning and black magic became widespread, arrests followed. Suspects included those among the highest ranks of society. Many...
An important new interpretation of the American colonists' 150-year struggle to achieve independence from the award-winning author and historian."What do we mean by the Revolution?" John Adams asked Thomas Jefferson in 1815. "The war? That was no part of the...
A veteran journalist presents "an epic account of the worst famine in history . . . a landmark in the Chinese people's own efforts to confront their history" (Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books).An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children...
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST | WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. A landmark history—the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early twentieth century.Since the time of Columbus,...
This “keenly observed and timely investigation” of how capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastrophe is “a potent weapon for shock resistors around the world” (Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine).Disaster has become big business....
The Peabody Award–winning journalist shares stories and insights into our country and the crises we face in an "eloquent selection of . . . commentaries" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Millions of Americans have invited Bill Moyers into their homes over the...
