How the States Got Their Shapes
Mark Stein Collins Collins
Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake? We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities—the entire state of...
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster
As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at...
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer Anchor Anchor
In 1984, Ron and Dan Lafferty murdered the wife and infant daughter of their younger brother Allen. The crimes were noteworthy not merely for their brutality but for the brothers' claim that they were acting on direct orders from God. In Under the...
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Amity Shlaes Harper Perennial Harper Perennial
In The Forgotten Man , Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond W. W. Norton W. W. Norton
Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological...
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
Tony Horwitz Henry Holt and Co. Henry Holt and Co.
The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, from...
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Tim Weiner Anchor Anchor
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it;...
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1776
David McCullough Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster
Esteemed historian David McCullough covers the military side of the momentous year of 1776 with characteristic insight and a gripping narrative, adding new scholarship and a fresh perspective to the beginning of the American Revolution. It was a...
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The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
Mark Bowden Atlantic Monthly Press Atlantic Monthly Press
On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the NFL Championship game. Played in front of sixty-four thousand fans and millions of television viewers around the country, the game would be...
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
Simon Winchester Harper Harper
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"— New York Times Book Review ) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"— Time ) brings to life...
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