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Death and the American Civil War
Written by Drew Gilpin Faust
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $15.95
More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing... Read more >
The Books That Shaped His Life
Written by Timothy W. Ryback
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $25.95
A brilliantly original exploration of some of the formative influences in Hitler’s life—the books he most revered, and how they shaped the man and his thinking.
Hitler’s education and worldview were formed largely from the books in his private library. Recently, hundreds of those books were discovered in the Library of Congress...
Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush
Written by Peter W. Rodman
Introduction by Henry Kissinger
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $27.95
A revelatory account from a Washington insider of how modern presidents have succeeded—and failed—in making foreign policy. An important contribution in the wake of recent American experiences abroad, and an essential book for the new administration, here is a fascinating, in-depth look at what actually happens in the Oval Office from...
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A Life in Poetry
Written by Fu Du
Translated by David Young
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $16.95
Du Fu (712–770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry—still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now David Young, author of Black Lab, and well known as a translator of Chinese poets, gives us a sparkling new translation of Du Fu’s verse, arranged to give us...
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Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
Written by Samuel D. Kassow
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $16.95
In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as... Read more >
The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Written by Douglas A. Blackmon
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $16.95
In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.
Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Douglas A. Blackmon... Read more >
The Vatican and the United States--Two Centuries of Alliance and Conflict
Written by Massimo Franco
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2009
Price: $26.00
The fascinating and highly relevant history of the turbulent relationship between the United States and the Holy See, recounted and analyzed by Italian journalist and Vatican insider Massimo Franco
Drawing on unique access to the archives of the Holy See and a range of sources both in Washington, D.C. and Rome, Parallel...
