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By turns hilarious, candid, and heartbreaking, this powerful book takes the straitjacket off Black history.A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The notables of...
"A lucid, muscular, and often sly reflection" on the worth and purpose of historical scholarship by the award-winning author of The Third Reich Trilogy (Kirkus).In this volume, the renowned historian Richard J. Evans offers a fervent and deeply insightful defense of...
From the New York Times bestselling author, the larger than life story of America's fifth president, who transformed a small, fragile nation into a powerful empire In this compelling biography, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals the epic story of James...
"In this fascinating look at contemporary politics, [the authors] set out to explain what really causes the extreme political polarization seen today." —Publishers Weekly What's in your garage: a Prius or a pickup? What's in your coffee cup: Starbucks or Dunkin'...
A leading educator, writer, and strategist sheds a timely and powerful light on American public schools, their miseducation of marginalized students of color and the action required to make tangible changes and reforms to a failing and racialized educational system....
The author of Black Hawk Down vividly recounts a pivotal Vietnam War battle in this New York Times bestseller: "An extraordinary feat of journalism". —Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal In Hue 1968, Mark Bowden presents a detailed, day-by-day reconstruction of the...
"An original and important book. . . . [T]he most readable introduction to the history, theology and present-day practices of Protestantism." —Publishers Weekly A New Interpretation of Protestantism and Its Impact on the World The radical idea that individuals could...
The nation's most celebrated First Amendment lawyer"explores the American right to free speech in this thoughtful and concise volume" (Publishers Weekly). The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what...
"Perhaps the most authoritative and readable single-volume history of immigration yet written." —Daily HeraldFormer professor Roger Daniels does his utmost to capture the history of immigration to America as accurately as possible in this definitive account of one of...
"A powerful challenge to the prevailing constitutional orthodoxy of the right and the left . . . A deeply troubling and absolutely vital book" (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate).In this provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity...