Eliza Griswold - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize winner's intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis. "The revolution I wanted to be part of was in the church.". Americans have been leaving their churches. Some drift away. Some stay home. Many search for more authentic ways...
Dan Slater - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
The harrowing tale of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime.. In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed...