Random House, August 2023. Hardcover. A vivid account of the rivalry between future president William Henry Harrison and the Shawnee chief Tecumseh--and of the Native American alliance that fought westward expansion--from the New York Times bestselling author of Astoria "Taut, multi-layered . . . a much-needed reevaluation of this crucial..... More
Harper, September 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. A NPR Best Book of the Year The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a...... More
David R. Godine, Publisher, October 2023. Hardcover. Before 9/11, the rugby team at West Point learned to bond on a sports field. This is what happened when those 15 young men became leaders in war. Filled with drama, tragedy, and personal transformations, this is the story of a unique brotherhood..... More
The New Press, October 2023. Hardcover. The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century--and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, "Madame Restell," the nom de guerre of the most successful female..... More
Columbia University Press, August 2023. Paper Back. For many Jews, for more than a century, the United States has seemed to be a safe haven. There has been antisemitic prejudice, but nothing on the scale of the discrimination, persecution, pogroms, and genocide witnessed in Europe. White American ethnic violence has..... More
HarperCollins, January 1994. Trade Paperback. More
University of Oklahoma Press, January 1974. Trade Paperback. It is unlikely that any single book or document will ever earn a more firmly-fixed position of respect and authority than this distinguished volume by Grant Foreman. Originally published in 1932, on the date of the hundredth anniversary of the arrival in..... More
Doubleday, May 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Books, June 2018. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the National Book Award The Nation's "Most Valuable Book" "[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right."--The Atlantic "This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually..... More
Vintage, May 2013. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE Book Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that..... More
Bantam, October 2023. Paper Back. The hilarious, irreverent guide to world history you never knew you needed, featuring 366 profanity-filled tales of triumph and terror, science and stupidity, courage and cowardice Those who cannot remember the past . . . need a history teacher who says "f*ck" a lot. Nazis..... More
Vintage, October 2023. Paper Back. A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ - From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels--poets, novelists, philosophers--who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world..... More
PublicAffairs, September 2023. Hardcover. This first book on Kim Jong Un's increasingly powerful sister, tapped to be his successor, offers jaw-dropping insights into the latest generation of North Korea's secretive and murderous dynasty. The first woman ever to issue the threat of a nuclear weapons strike is not even officially..... More
Thunder Bay Press, September 2023. Hardcover. This map-by-map guide to the epic history of America was produced in collaboration with the experts at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian America: The Atlas is a superb depiction of the history of North America and the United States told through extensive photographs and maps..... More
Random House, November 2016. Hardcover. The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen--a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning portrait is a story of love and heartbreak..... More
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, August 2023. Hardcover. For three weeks in July 1945 all eyes were fixed on a humid Paris, where France's disgraced former head of state was on trial, accused of masterminding a plot to overthrow democracy. Would Philippe Pétain, hero of Verdun, be..... More
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, October 2023. Paper Back. "Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game-changing book."--Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology "An..... More
Harvard University Press, September 2023. Paper Back. Winner of a Catholic Media Association Book Award "A great, but deeply unsettling, revelation...This book is more than an account of Boston in wartime. It is a warning."--Boston Globe "The rare book by a scholar that is such a page-turner it is hard..... More
Flatiron Books, December 2021. Trade Paperback. New York Times Bestseller "This dynamic blend of biography and manifesto centers on Louise Little, Alberta King, and Berdis Baldwin . . . Tubbs's book stands against the women's erasure, a monument to their historical importance." --The New Yorker "Tubbs' connection to these women..... More
Vintage, July 1975. Trade Paperback. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library's..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, October 2023. Paper Back. Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a "brilliant, well-documented" celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution. Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2023. Hardcover. The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult. In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill was introduced and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, opened its doors..... More
Crown, June 2023. Hardcover. New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward "Refreshingly original . . . Familiar characters are given vibrancy and previously..... More
Harper Paperbacks, October 2009. Reprint. Paper Back. The badasses populating the pages of Badass are the most savagely awesome historical figures to ever strap on a pair of chain mail gauntlets and run screaming into battle. Author Ben Thompson--considered by many to be the Internet's foremost expert on badassitude--has gathered..... More
Oxford Univ Press, March 1997. Trade Paperback. This book draws on ten years of archival research to provide the first comprehensive treatment in English of how Germany and Austria-Hungary conducted World War I and what defeat meant to them. More
