History
These Truths: A History of the United States
Paperback
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history
The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World
Hardback
A concise, colourful and convincing account of capitalism’s rise to global dominance
The Shortest History of the United States: From Revolutionary Roots to Global Superpower—The Remarkable Rise of the World’s Oldest Democracy
Paperback
From revolution to civil rights, Old Hollywood to the Space Age—the extraordinary story of a nation that contains multitudes
“A masterpiece of concision and analysis. Every American should read it.”—Judith Thurman, National Book Award–winning writer at The New Yorker
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
Paperback
In Fault Lines two award-winning and best-selling historians explore the origins of a divided America in a new edition, with a new chapter and epilogue
Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
Hardback
A "Best Non-Fiction to Read This Year" Selection from The New Statesman
A magisterial, revisionist narrative history of the Soviet Union in its post-Stalin heyday, bringing a forgotten society to vivid life and offering a new explanation for how it suddenly collapsed.