Self-Determination

Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" ( Kirkus Reviews), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history....

Prizewinning historian Nick Bunker shows us a polarized nation facing crises at home and abroad in this evocative portrait of a divided America at the dawn of the Cold War....

The eminent historian John Keegan charts Churchill's career, following his steadfast leadership during the catastrophic events of World War II....

Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalism and populism. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modern globalization is not sustainable....

This magnificent volume offers fresh evaluations and sheds new light on Europe's most controversial and enigmatic general, politician, and statesman....

At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln....

It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media coverage of it to an extraordinary extent....

If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, the author suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained....

Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America....

Timothy Ferris makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy....

The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as World War II was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since....

This is a day-by-day account of the 80-day struggle in 1940 between Hitler, poised on the edge of absolute victory, and Churchill, threatened by imminent invasion and defeat....

In this definitive new biography, John Bew reveals how the title of Britain's most consequential leader belongs to Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill's successor, who launched a new era of political, economic, and social reform that would forever change Great Britain....

In this sweepingly ambitious overview of World War II, Michael Burleigh combines meticulous scholarship with a remarkable depth of knowledge and an astonishing scope....

This new Reader’s Edition of Harry Truman’s memoirs corrects some important problems that made the prior two volumes difficult to enjoy. This new edition offers the thrill of hearing the authentic Harry S. Truman, probably the most important president of the last 75 years....

In April 1917, as Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich....

The Image of the Enemy examines how seven countries analyzed and used intelligence to understand their main adversary....

We now live, Wertheim warns, in the world that these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned narrative that questions the wisdom of US supremacy, Tomorrow, the World reveals the intellectual path that brought us to today’s global entanglements and endless wars....

As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country...

Between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations....