How risky encounters between American and Czech writers behind the Iron Curtain shaped the art and politics of the Cold War and helped define an era of dissent.“In some …
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceWinner of a PROSE Award“Fascinating…Eye-opening…Illuminating…Patterson carefully explores the complexity of the structural machinery …
“A landmark book…[a] bold reframing of the history of the British Empire.”—Caroline Elkins, Foreign AffairsAn award-winning historian places the corporation—more than the Crown—at …
Winner of the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award“Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that …
“The extraordinary untold story of how a disillusioned American diplomat named William C. Bullitt came to Freud’s couch in 1926, and how Freud and his patient collaborated on a …
“A magisterial yet highly nuanced account that ventures back and forth across Mason and Dixon’s fabled demarcation line as audaciously as 18th-century raiding parties once …
“Are you there, God? It’s me, Manhattan…Butler…argues that far from being a Sodom on the Hudson, New York was a center of religious dynamism throughout the 20th century.”—Wall …
A bold rethinking of the Haitian Revolution reveals the roots of the only successful slave uprising in the modern world.Unearthing the progenitors of the Haitian Revolution has …
The poignant rise and fall of an idealistic immigrant who, as CEO of a major conglomerate, tried to change the way America did business before he himself was swallowed up by …
"e;What a woman! And what a fabulous life to unearth. Zelia Nuttall was incredibly smart, determined, a divorced single mother in a man's world, a great scholar, and an …
