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Lost to the West
The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Written by Lars Brownworth
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-40795-5 (0-307-40795-0)
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entire... Read more >
The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Written by Lars Brownworth
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-40795-5 (0-307-40795-0)
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entire... Read more >
Woodrow Wilson
A Biography
Written by John Milton Cooper, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26541-8 (0-307-26541-2)
The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.
A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president—he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDR’s New Deal and would... Read more >
A Biography
Written by John Milton Cooper, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26541-8 (0-307-26541-2)
The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.
A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president—he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDR’s New Deal and would... Read more >
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The Black Book
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6848-7 (1-4000-6848-7)
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6848-7 (1-4000-6848-7)
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >
Saving Savannah
The City and the Civil War
Written by Jacqueline Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7816-5 (1-4000-7816-4)
In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prizewinning historian Jacqueline Jones transports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that fabled Southern port city. This is a subtle and rich social history that weaves together stories of the everyday lives of blacks and... Read more >
The City and the Civil War
Written by Jacqueline Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7816-5 (1-4000-7816-4)
In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prizewinning historian Jacqueline Jones transports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that fabled Southern port city. This is a subtle and rich social history that weaves together stories of the everyday lives of blacks and... Read more >
Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Written by Stephen Kotkin
Contribution by Jan Gross
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-64276-3 (0-679-64276-5)
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this... Read more >
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Written by Stephen Kotkin
Contribution by Jan Gross
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-64276-3 (0-679-64276-5)
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this... Read more >
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Master of Shadows
The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
Written by Mark Lamster
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-52379-0 (0-385-52379-3)
“In elegant brushstrokes, and using as his subject the painter/diplomat Rubens, Mark Lamster gives us here a vivid portrait of 17th century Europe and the political intrigue that led to the modern world.” —Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World
“Art, war, diplomatic intrigue, secret spy... Read more >
The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
Written by Mark Lamster
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-52379-0 (0-385-52379-3)
“In elegant brushstrokes, and using as his subject the painter/diplomat Rubens, Mark Lamster gives us here a vivid portrait of 17th century Europe and the political intrigue that led to the modern world.” —Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World
“Art, war, diplomatic intrigue, secret spy... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
A Bright Shining Lie
John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Written by Neil Sheehan
Format: Hardcover, 896 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-64361-6 (0-679-64361-3)
In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, renowned journalist Neil Sheehan tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann–“the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam”–and of the tragedy that destroyed that country and the lives... Read more >
John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Written by Neil Sheehan
Format: Hardcover, 896 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-64361-6 (0-679-64361-3)
In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, renowned journalist Neil Sheehan tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann–“the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam”–and of the tragedy that destroyed that country and the lives... Read more >
The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika
Edited by Robert B. Strassler
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-42255-3 (0-375-42255-2)
From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon’s Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War.
Hellenika covers the years between 411 and 362 B.C.E., a particularly dramatic... Read more >
Edited by Robert B. Strassler
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-42255-3 (0-375-42255-2)
From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon’s Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War.
Hellenika covers the years between 411 and 362 B.C.E., a particularly dramatic... Read more >
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