Book Reviews & Recommendations
Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America is a lucid, urgent walk through American history that explains how the United States arrived at a precarious democratic moment and what it might take to reclaim the promise of self-government. […]
Scott Ellsworth’s Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America aims for narrative propulsion over academic granularity, and for the most part it hits the mark. If you like your history […]
Timothy Egan’s A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them is a masterful work of historical nonfiction that reads like a political thriller. But unlike fiction, this story is terrifyingly […]
Anderson Cooper, one of America’s most respected journalists, brings readers on a fascinating journey through his own family history in Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, co-written with historian Katherine Howe. Together, they trace the arc of one of […]