A titan among Civil War military geniuses gives an unvarnished account of his career, presented for the first time in a definitive annotated edition, marking the 150th anniversary of the original publication.William Tecumseh Sherman’s memoirs were a...

Criminal profiling--the delicate art of collecting and deciphering the psychological "fingerprints" of the monsters among us--holds an almost mythological status in pop culture. But what exactly is it, does it work, and why is the American public so...

The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They had won the first civil war and the king was in custody, but...

A landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Philip Roth (1933-2018), one of America's most celebrated...

A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s and invigorates new debates and possibilities for the future of the struggle for liberation.We are all familiar with the romantic...

First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens--the "smart cookies" who saw that making money, lots of it, might be within their grasp. Then came the first female Harvard Business School graduates, who were in for a rude awakening because an equal...

A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his homeland.In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a country transformed by “an orgy of violence.” Two years...

Reframing medieval art through the lens of queer theory, this pioneering volume sharpens our understanding of conceptions of gender, the body, and eroticism across three centuries This pioneering volume explores concepts of gender, sexuality, and love...

A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies--from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination Early modern Europe was a hotbed of espionage, where spies, spy-catchers, and conspirators...

Anthony Kennedy’s journey from an idyllic youth in 1940s Sacramento to service on the highest courts in America.Anthony Kennedy did not take the usual path to a seat on the Supreme Court. Often, the phrase “constitutional lawyer” brings to mind graduates...

The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos Like many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) welcomed the outbreak of the First World War. He viewed it as a spiritual...

Named a Most Anticipated Book by New York Times Books Review, TIME, Washington Post, Associated Press, Town & Country, New York Post, and moreFrom the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, “the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,”* comes a...

The instant New York Times bestseller • Named the #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year by TIME, A Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Slate, Vanity Fair, Buzzfeed, Smithsonian, BookPage, KCUR, Kirkus, and Boston Globe“It literally changed my outlook...

Why have foreigners over the centuries kept wanting to own Greenland? The fascinating, calamitous story of the many who’ve tried . . . and uniformly failed . . .An indispensable guide to Greenland—why it matters, and how it could become the next global...

A centennial edition of the classic work that instilled a liberal spirit into the study of American historyJ. Franklin Jameson’s The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement was among the first books to look at American history through the...

A brand-new revised and expanded hardcover edition of the bestselling graphic novel based on the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien's enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings is one of the best-loved books of all time...

From the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today’s green burialsWhy, how, and where do we inter our dead? How have people throughout history responded to the...

From over 3,000 considered stories published in the past year, this anthology contains the twenty best, selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham under the auspices of New York City's legendary crime fiction specialty store The...

'A sweeping love letter to the region that shaped America's palate.' - Eric Adjepong A home cook's guide to one of America's most diverse - and delicious - cuisines, from James Beard Award-winning author and culinary historian Michael W. Twitty'Our...

How the country that came to elect Obama could also elect TrumpHow did Americans come to elect Barack Obama twice—and then elect Donald Trump twice? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction.The whole truth about America,...