History
Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
Hardback
The thrilling story of the nineteenth century’s moonshot: An Atlantic-spanning telegraph cable that created the global village and changed the world
Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America
Hardback
A Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political tradition—the conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal.
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
Hardback
An astonishing true story–one of the most gripping maritime sagas of the nineteenth century–told by our era’s “expert literary steersman” (The Washington Post)
The Secret World of Denisovans: The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
Paperback
An unprecedented, meticulously reported account of our prehistoric ancestors, the recently discovered “Third Man” cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
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.