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Black Death at the Golden Gate
David K Randall - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"A mash-up of Erik Larson and Richard Preston." -- Tina Jordan, New York Times Book Review podcastOn March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown... |
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
Marion Gibson - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate the pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history.. Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through... |
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Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
Amitav Ghosh - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family -- the climax of a yearslong project.When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis trilogy ten years ago, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century... |
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Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock
David Hamilton Golland - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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"Golland leaves no stone unturned in this fine-grained chronicle of the rock group Journey.... Golland's passion and precision make this a pleasure." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review. [Golland] provides an overdue critical take on the group's overall sound. He also discusses... |
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Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines
Carol Kino - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting dual biography of the McLaughlins - identical twin sisters who became groundbreaking photographers in New York during the glamorous magazine golden age of the 1930s and 40s - for fans of Ninth Street Women and The Barbizon. . The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers,... |
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
Antonia Hylton - Legacy Lit
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Books of January. In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, that the New York Times described as "fascinating... |
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Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism
Charles Darwent - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought surrealism to America, sparking the movement that became abstract expressionism.In 1957 the American artist Robert Motherwell made an unexpected claim: "I have only known two painting milieus well ... the Parisian... |
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