History
Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era
Paperback
"A consistently engrossing, occasionally irreverent, always smoothly written history of America's painful entry into the modern age."—Kirkus Reviews
Inventing Human Rights: A History
Paperback
“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review
The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California
Hardback
A true-life tale of ruthless ambition, staggering greed, and the making of a nation.
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
Paperback
"Unflinchingly illustrates the reality of life during this extraordinary moment in American history."—Dinitia Smith, The New York Times
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
Paperback
"Vivid, laconic, and crisp. The bodies fall like dominoes, and every word sounds like it was shot from a gun. And as you might expect from Lesy, the photographs are extraordinary." —Luc Sante