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Machiavelli
Machiavelli

Boucheron, Patrick; Wood, Willard

In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time.

Whenever a tempestuous period in history begins,...
 
 
A Black Women's History of the United States
A Black Women's History of the United States

Daina Ramey Berry

A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are—and have always been—instrumental in shaping our countryIn centering Black women's stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American...
 
 
Race Against Time
Race Against Time

Jerry Mitchell

"For almost two decades, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders of the civil rights movement. This book is his amazing story. Thanks to him, and to courageous prosecutors, witnesses, and FBI agents, justice...
 
 
Why We're Polarized
Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein

The New York Times Bestseller The Wall Street Journal Bestseller "Few books are as well-matched to the moment of their publication as Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarized." —Dan Hopkins, The Washington Post "It is likely to become the political book of the year....Powerful [and] intelligent."...
 
 
Early
Early

Sarah DiGregorio

Inspired by the author's harrowing experience giving birth to her premature daughter, a compelling and empathetic work that combines memoir with rigorous reporting to tell the story of neonatology—and to meditate on the questions raised by premature birth. The heart of many hospitals...
 
 
The Bomb
The Bomb

Kaplan, Fred

From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump.

Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York...
 
 
The Age of Entitlement
The Age of Entitlement

Caldwell, Christopher

A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled—and ready to put an adventurer in the White House.

Christopher...
 
 
American Oligarchs
American Oligarchs

Bernstein, Andrea

A multigenerational saga of two families who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of U.S. power that tracks the unraveling of American democracy.

In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein creates a vivid portrait of two emblematic...

 
 
Medieval Bodies
Medieval Bodies

Jack Hartnell

With wit, wisdom, and a sharp scalpel, Jack Hartnell dissects the medieval body and offers a remedy to our preconceptions. Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous...