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Nobody's Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of the Insanity Defense
Susan Nordin Vinocour · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful and humane exploration of the "insanity defense," through one heartbreaking case.A three-year-old boy dies, having apparently fallen while trying to reach a bag of sugar on a high shelf. His grandmother stands accused of second-degree murder. Psychologist Susan Nordin... |
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Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
James Shapiro · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From leading scholar James Shapiro, a timely exploration of what Shakespeare's plays reveal about our divided land, from Revolutionary times to the present day Read at school by almost every student, staged in theaters across the land, and long highly valued by both conservatives... |
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The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism
Fintan O'Toole · Liveright
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most perceptive observers of the English today comes a brilliantly insightful, mordantly funny account of their seemingly irrational embrace of nationalism.England's recent lurch to the right appears to be but one example of the nationalist wave sweeping across the world,... |
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Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos
Peter Bergen · Penguin Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From one of America's preeminent national security journalists, an explosive, news-breaking account of Donald Trump's collision with the American national security establishment, and with the worldIt is a simple fact that no president in American history brought less foreign policy... |
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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
Alexis Coe · Viking
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"Alexis Coe energetically dusts off an old-boys genre to present a life in full, without sentiment or whitewashing. It's a public service, and it's also a lot of fun." --Irin Carmon, New York Times bestselling co-author of Notorious RBGAlexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and... |
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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
Viet Thanh Nguyen · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A unique collaboration between the American Civil Liberties Union and authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, Fight of the Century features original essays by the most influential writers at work today - including Jennifer Egan, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Salman Rushdie,... |
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Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership
Edward J. Larson · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark new work of American history: From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson a groundbreaking dual biography of America's two pre-eminent Founders - Benjamin Franklin and George Washington - examining in fresh detail how their underexplored relationship forged the United... |
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
Jeremy Popkin · Basic Books
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern worldThe principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World... |
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