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. […]
If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to become a saint, Kate Sidley’s How to Be a Saint: An Extremely Weird and Mildly Sacrilegious History of the Catholic Church’s Biggest Names is here to enlighten you with laughter, wit, and a touch […]
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 […]
In Chłopki. Opowieść o naszych babkach (Peasant Women: The Story of Our Grandmothers), Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak continues her exploration of forgotten female voices, turning her gaze this time toward the women who remained behind in the Polish countryside while their sisters left for […]
History has a way of hiding its most extraordinary heroes, and Pippa Latour was one of them. The Last Secret Agent: My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines, co-written with journalist Jude Dobson, finally brings to light the incredible true story […]
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 […]
There are countless retellings of the Trojan War, yet few manage to strike a balance between grandeur, humor, and heartbreak the way Troy by Stephen Fry does. Known for his wit and narrative charm, Fry takes one of the world’s oldest and […]
Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is not just a book it is an unflinching dissection of the hidden social architecture that has shaped America’s history and continues to define its present. In this profoundly researched and emotionally charged work, […]
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 […]
In The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, Erik Larson once again proves his mastery at turning history into an unforgettable human drama. Known for The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake, […]