History - United States - 21st Century

"Gripping, unshakeable firsthand account. . . . Riveting." --San Francisco Chronicle A revelatory and searingly immediate report from the frontlines of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from the MS NOW reporter and New York Times bestselling author of Separated, who covered the fires...

Sixty years of living in the same mountain community gave a long time resident of Shaver Lake, California, different information as to the cause and failure to extinguish promptly the 2020 Creek Fire. This is the story of his nearly six year investigation of...

The gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country."It's one of the best books on politics of any kind I've read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22." --The Financial...

From one of the most influential officeholders in Texas and power brokers in Washington over the last seventy years, lifetime Democrat Ben Barnes, an intimate and unexpected look behind the corridors of power. Ben Barnes started out as a whistleblower. He was only nineteen...

Starting with the first ever regular season matchup between the Mets and Yankees and ending with the last out of the 2000 Subway Series, Get Your Tokens Ready provides the most in-depth look ever published at both teams during the late 1990s and the...

It's America's 250th birthday! Here are 250 reasons to celebrate this land of the free and the brave. Let's hear a round of thunderous applause for America's semiquincentennial! (Or maybe a reluctant and sarcastic slow clap from you cynics in the crowd.) Sure our...

A clear-eyed assessment of where we go from here--detailing how to combat misinformation and isolation--from the foremost expert on American political violence "A soulful and significant contribution to defeating the authoritarian threat in America." -- Congressman Jamie Raskin, author of Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and...

How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory--but they didn't. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors from red to green....

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory--but they didn't. Instead, they saw...

Author Foxx Nolte gives readers a glimpse behind the curtain of the most magical place on earth. Millions of people a year visit Walt Disney World, but few would consider it to be a place with any real history. But hidden just below the...

Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance's powerful origin story...From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust...

From a twenty-year police veteran and former Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th, this instant New York Times bestseller is also an urgent warning that "offers a stark message for this uncertain moment, making crystal clear the...

"A riveting memoir of a life aquatic and an indispensable guide for anyone hoping to learn from the sea's wisdom at a time when its lessons have never been more urgent." -Susan Casey, author of The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean"A...

"A riveting memoir of a life aquatic and an indispensable guide for anyone hoping to learn from the sea's wisdom at a time when its lessons have never been more urgent." -Susan Casey, author of The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean"A...

A groundbreaking history of how the decades-long war on terror changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the erosion of citizenship down to the cars we bought and TV we watched--by an acclaimed n+1 writer "[An] ambitious . . . portrait of why...

"A graphic but powerful reminder of the horrors of that day--and the horrors that the first responders have faced ever since." --Booklist Twenty-five years after the attacks that shook the nation, discover the untold story of an American hero who proved that one person...

*Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur Ross Book Award* From America's leading scholar of democracy, a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order--and the very value of liberty Larry Diamond has made it his life's work to secure...

Popular representations of history tend to meet the moral demands of the present. Before the social crises of the postwar era began to influence Jews' thinking and at a time when global antisemitism posed the most obvious threat to their continuity and survival, Jews...

From Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, a shocking investigation of unparalleled depth into the subversion of the Justice Department over the last decade, culminating in President Donald Trump upending this cornerstone of democracy and threatening America's rule of law as...

From Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, a shocking investigation of unparalleled depth into the subversion of the Justice Department over the last decade, culminating in President Donald Trump upending this cornerstone of democracy and threatening America's rule of law as...