726 results for '"Alan Brinkley'

The author asks, "Why cannot liberal democracies solve their problems?" The author's answer is a study of the competing political traditions first developed in the 19th c. to mollify social tensions.

“Taylor… probes [Jefferson’s] ambitious mission in clear prose and with great insight and erudition.” ―Annette Gordon-Reed, AtlanticBy turns entertaining and tragic, this elegant history reveals the...

When an American sailor from the Holy Loch Base goes missing, Harry McCoy is determined to find him. But as he investigates, a wave of bombings hits Glasgow. Soon McCoy realises that the sailor may...

This volume provides a systematic overview and comprehensive assessment of Bernard Williams's contribution to moral philosophy, a field in which Williams was one of the most influential of...

The author recounts his 1986 journey to Russia to visit the places his father lived and flew as a member of the Red Army Air Force

Presenting new information from archival research in Australia, Europe, South Africa, and North and South America, this is the first biography to cover in full the life of Arthur Phillip, the...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeAn extraordinary, “playful, moving, and wholly remarkable” (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living...

An account of Darwin's five-year expedition, as a naturalist on board HMS Beagle, illustrated from contemporary sources

This volume covers the history of the Roman Empire from the accession of Septimius Severus in AD 193 to the death of Constantine in AD 337. This period was one of the most critical in the history of...

Considers the social and political climate of postwar Great Britain and its effect on the literary scene of the time