Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Written by Richard Hofstadter

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1966
Price: $18.00

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Hofstadter's classic work sheds light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.
  "It illuminates the... Read more >

The Name of War
King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
Written by Jill Lepore

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 27, 1999
Price: $16.95

Winner of the Bancroft Prize

Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society

King Philip’s War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indians—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages... Read more >

The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Written by Gordon S. Wood

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: March 2, 1993
Price: $17.95

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Winner of the the 1992 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society

This major work of historical, cultural, social, and political analysis overturns long-held theories about the nature and the effects of the American Revolution. Wood shows that it was not a conservative movement, a... Read more >