Biography & Memoir
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
Paperback
Howard French’s The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head.” — David Levering Lewis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus
Paperback
A gifted historian presents a definitive book on Christopher Columbus—his life, his legacy and the many controversies that outlived him
Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales
Hardback
A call to courage and connection from prize-winning poet and champion for the arts and humanities
Reagan: His Life and Legend
Paperback
Son of the Midwest, movie star and mesmerising politician–America’s fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography
Mahalia Jackson, Moving On Up a Little Higher: The Story of an American Civil Rights Pioneer
Hardback
“Mahalia Jackson was the greatest gospel singer of her time and an overlooked leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Her voice seemed born of heaven.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr.