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  • Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present

    Michael B. Oren

    Paperback

    “Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years.”—Christopher Dickey, Newsweek

  • Man and Crisis

    José Ortega y Gasset, Mildred Adams

    Paperback

    “A worthy companion of the author’s The Revolt of the Masses. Both books are marked by the brilliance, originality, and depth of the author’s interpretation of the crisis of our age and of the basic historical processes.” —Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

  • History as a System, and Other Essays Toward a Philosophy of History

    José Ortega y Gasset, Helene Weyl, John William Miller

    Paperback

    Four stimulating essays: “The Sportive Origin of the State,” “Unity and Diversity of Europe,” “Man the Technician,” and “History as a System.” The...

  • The History of White People

    Nell Irvin Painter

    Paperback

    A New York Times Bestseller

    This terrific new book…[explores] the ‘notion of whiteness,’ an idea as dangerous as it is seductive." —Boston Globe

  • Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era

    Nell Irvin Painter

    Paperback

    "A consistently engrossing, occasionally irreverent, always smoothly written history of America's painful entry into the modern age."—Kirkus Reviews