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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division.“Molly Crabapple beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible, lost world, one bound...
"Taps the fascinating history of a surprisingly understudied place—Dallas . . . to reorient our understanding of America's Republican Right." —Darren Dochuk, author of Anointed with OilOn the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started...
Unbreakable: The Harrowing Tale of an American Hero's Survival in the Pacific TheaterValor is the magnificent story of Lieutenant William Frederick "Bill" Harris, a genuine American hero who survived the fall of the Philippines and brutal captivity under the Japanese...
Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.In The...
"Katch has done the impossible: he makes socialism sexy . . . eye-opening, inspiring, and funny . . . this book might turn you into a closet socialist" (Judah Friedlander, actor and comedian). Opinion polls show that many people in the United States prefer socialism...
"Beautifully written, painfully honest" first-person accounts of racial profiling, as experienced by twelve black men from all over America (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow). In an era of contentious debate about controversial police practices and, more...
A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient worldIn the late 8th and early 7th centuries BCE, Scythian warriors conquered and unified most of the vast Eurasian continent, creating an innovative empire that would give...
The true story of the B-25 pilot who "fought a personal aerial war to retrieve his family from Japanese captivity in the Philippines . . . stirring" (Barrett Tillman, author of Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan 1942–1945).Born in the Philippines to an American...
"An engaging new biography . . . a rounded portrait" of an unsung hero of the American Revolution from the award-winning author (The Washington Times).When the Revolutionary War began, Nathanael Greene was a private in the militia, the lowest rank possible, yet he...
A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authenticallyIt goes without saying that even today, it’s not easy to be gay in America. While young gay men often come out more readily, even those from the most...
