History
The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Based on the Secret White House Tapes
Paperback
"A portrait of the JFK White House after the Cuban Missile Crisis as it really was…human and revealing." —Evan Thomas
Parkland
Movie Tie-in Edition
Paperback
“As good a second-by-second reconstruction of the assassination and its aftermath as I’ve read.” Bryan Burrough, The New York Times
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832
Hardback
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History
This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war.
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
Paperback
Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships.
Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC
Hardback
The stirring history of a president and a capital city on the front lines of war and freedom.