History
In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
Hardback
A sweeping, 400-year history of American slavery and American capitalism told through the emergence, evolution and persistence of the plantation
The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation into the National Security State
Paperback
After fifty years, this shocking report released in a single, readable volume for the first time is still the most accurate account of US government spying on its own citizens
Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
Hardback
An eye-opening portrait of Abraham Lincoln behind the scenes: here is the career-long party politician whose brilliant coalition-building during the Civil War set the political foundation for emancipation and Union victory
Heart of American Darkness: A Story of Murder and Revolution on the Early Frontier
Paperback
An acclaimed historian captures the true nature of imperialism in early America, demonstrating how the frontier shaped the nation
How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art
Paperback
The strange story of the twentieth-century artists who sought to destroy art by transforming it into the substance of everyday life