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A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin decided the fate of the world Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascinating historical figures of all time. In this landmark book, a gifted...
The second volume in the WWII history "written with simplicity, lucidity, and gusto" by the legendary leader and Nobel Prize winner (The New York Times). Â In Their Finest Hour, Winston Churchill describes the invasion of France and a growing sense of dismay in...
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFormer Republican political operative Tim Miller answers the question no one else has fully grappled with: Why did normal people go along with the worst of Trumpism? As one of the strategists behind the famous 2012 RNC “autopsy,” Miller...
"Ilyon Woo presents the earliest child custody laws of this country with vivid relevance . . . both legal and feminist details are fascinating." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch  The Great Divorce is the dramatic, richly textured story of one of nineteenth-century America's...
One of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year"A lively book.…[Luzzi] brilliantly sets the operatic stage of vibrant, violent Renaissance Florence and brings to life the characters who helped resurrect Botticelli." —Max Norman, Wall Street JournalSome five hundred...
"An intellectual lifeline for anyone who believes America should be on freedom's side, and knows, in their heart, that there must be a better way." —Peter Beinart, New York Times–bestselling authorA demagogue is a tyrant who owes his initial rise to the democratic...
A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuriesThe Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this biography of Fuller "is as seductive as it is impressive . . . In Ms. Marshall, Fuller has . . . her ideal biographer" (New York Times).From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New England's intellectual elite. Her...
This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—is "a delight" (The New York Times) and...
The history of the vital decisions that disrupted the victorious momentum of the Axis powers in World War II, leading to their downfall.As the Japanese fleet prepared to sail from Japan to Pearl Harbor, the German army was launching its final desperate assault on...