History - United States - 21st Century

Renowned investigative journalist Richard Behar delivers the definitive account of history's largest--and longest-running--financial fraud, "the scale of the deception...beggars belief" (New York Post). Some $68 billion evaporated during Bernie Madoff's epic confidence game. Two people were driven to suicide in the wake of the...

From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation "A tour de force of sharp-eyed reporting, powerful narrative, and heartbreaking tragedy. ....

Instant New York Times BestsellerA searing, vital investigation of the Republican Party's dangerous campaign to rewrite recent history in real time, from the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show producer and bestselling author of The Impostors."There is nobody who is writing in an episodic way...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An eerily prescient guide to the phantasmagoria of our political moment."-The New York Times Book Review "American democracy isn't simply dying. It is, as Stewart observes, being murdered."-The New Republic "Meticulously researched, elegantly written, and hard-hitting."-Kristin Kobes Du Mez...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSFrom the acclaimed author of The Power Worshippers, "an indispensable citizen's guide to the anti-democratic MAGA Right." -Congressman Jamie Raskin "An eerily prescient guide to the phantasmagoria of our political...

En las montañas de Oaxaca hay una guerra de medio siglo, ignorada por millones... Justo ahí nació una historia de resistencia y dignidad inquebrantable. Mujer triqui es el extraordinario relato de una niña oaxaqueña que, a los cinco años, pasó de vivir en un...

An explosive exhibition of art by a celebrated cartoonist chronicling America's march toward right-wing authoritarianism.Museum of Degenerates invites you to a delirious display of art by one of contemporary America's most original and incendiary political cartoonists. Eli Valley's extraordinary work is a scathing indictment...

"A world-class intellectual. . . . [Colin Woodard's] research can help Americans rediscover their common identity in spite of all the attempts to divide them." --Garry Kasparov "A powerful paradigm for understanding the defining hot button issues of contemporary America and the action we...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The fast-paced inside story of America's plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon "[A] cogent, revealing account...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The fast-paced inside story of America's plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon "[A] cogent, revealing account...

With "arresting prose and keen insights" (Donna Brazile, New York Times bestselling author of Hacks), bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil rights movement in this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes on the Prize. More than...

With "arresting prose and keen insights" (Donna Brazile, New York Times bestselling author of Hacks), bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil rights movement in this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes on the Prize. More than...

The Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws--its treatment of race, dependence on a tainted Electoral College, a glaringly unrepresentative Senate, and the outsized influence of the Supreme Court--Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of Berkeley Law School and one...

The Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws--its treatment of race, dependence on a tainted Electoral College, a glaringly unrepresentative Senate, and the outsized influence of the Supreme Court--Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of Berkeley Law School and one...

For the first time, Kenneth Bae tells the full story surrounding his arrest and imprisonment in North Korea.Not Forgotten is a modern story of intrigue, suspense, and heart. Driven by his passion to help the people of North Korea, Bae moves to neighboring China...

Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award - Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNew York Times Book Review Notable Book - Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive"A deeply honest and brave...

On the morning of September 11, 2001, nearly 700 of Cantor Fitzgerald's 1,000 New York employees were at their desks on the top floors of One World Trade Center when a hijacked passenger plane struck eight floors below. None survived.On Top of the World...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This is history at its most immediate and moving...A marvelous and memorable book." --Jon Meacham ​"Remarkable...A priceless civic gift...On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken." --The Wall Street Journal "Had...

New York Times Bestseller From the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those who died that others might live When Chief Joe Pfeifer led his firefighters to investigate an odor of gas in downtown...

New York Times Bestseller From the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those who died that others might live, now with a new epilogue to commemorate the 25th anniversary When Chief Joe Pfeifer led...