History
Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
Paperback
"Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books
Writing History in the Global Era
Paperback
With history in ferment, leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters and how it should be written.
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
Paperback
From a surrealistic lab in wartime Poland comes one of the great untold accounts of moral and intellectual heroism of the Second World War.
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
Hardback
The dramatic account of one of America's most celebrated—and controversial—military campaigns: the Doolittle Raid.
Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
Hardback
The dramatic rise and fall of Beale Street, the legendary Memphis thoroughfare that shook American culture.