Amerikas historia

A renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to address the perils democracy confronts today.The 1990s were a heady time. The Cold …

Winner of the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Excellence in American History Book AwardWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize“Cogent, lucid, and concise…An …

“An incisive history of the venture-capital industry.”—New Yorker“An excellent and original economic history of venture capital.”—Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution“A detailed, …

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 …

Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of the John Hope Franklin PrizeWinner of the Avery O. Craven AwardSoul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America …

Winner of the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award“Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that …

“Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War.”—Ron Chernow, author of Grant“Provides leadership lessons that …

“An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy…McCarraher challenges more than 200 years …

Oscar and Lilian Handlin show us how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States. The …

Often considered a lost decade, a pause between the liberal Sixties and Reagan’s Eighties, the 1970s were indeed a watershed era when the forces of a conservative …