American Lion
Written by Jon Meacham

Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Price: $35.00

Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power... Read more >

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
Written by Piers Brendon

Format: Hardcover, 816 pages
Price: $37.50

A magisterial work of narrative history, hailed in Britain as “the best one-volume account of the British Empire” and “an outstanding book” (The Times Literary Supplement).

After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. But over the next 150 years it grew to become the greatest and most diverse... Read more >

The Billionaire's Vinegar
Written by Benjamin Wallace

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Price: $24.95

It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold.

In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—went for $156,000 to a member of the Forbes... Read more >

Traitor to His Class
Written by H.W. Brands

Format: Hardcover, 896 pages
Price: $35.00

A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR's formative years, his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised, his combination of political genius, firm...

The Forever War
Written by Dexter Filkins

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Price: $25.00

From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time.

Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as “reporting of the highest quality imaginable,”... Read more >

From Slavery to Freedom
Written by John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr.

Format: Hardcover, 768 pages
Price: $75.00

This is the dramatic, exciting, authoritative story of the experiences of African Americans from the time they left Africa to their continued struggle for equality at the end of the twentieth century.

Since its original publication in 1947, From Slavery to Freedom has stood as the definitive his-tory of African Americans. Coauthors... Read more >

The Strongest Tribe
Written by Bing West

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Price: $28.00

From a universally respected combat journalist, a gripping history based on five years of front-line reporting about how the war was turned around–and the choice now facing America

During the fierce battle for Fallujah, Bing West asked an Iraqi colonel why the archterrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had fled in women’s clothes... Read more >

American Lightning
Written by Howard Blum

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Price: $24.95

It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage... Read more >

Conquistador
Written by Buddy Levy

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Price: $27.50

In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures.

“I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured... Read more >

Saving Savannah
Written by Jacqueline Jones

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Price: $30.00

A panoramic portrait of the city of Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War—a poignant story of the African American freedom struggle in this prosperous southern riverport, set against a backdrop of military conflict and political turmoil. Jacqueline Jones, prizewinning author of the groundbreaking Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow,... Read more >

A History of Histories
Written by John Burrow

Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Price: $35.00

This unprecedented book by one of Britain’s most admired historians describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of history has had in the Western world over the past 2,500 years.

Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential... Read more >

The Ken Burns Companion Set
Written by Ken Burns

Format: Hardcover
Price: $321.95

The definitive Ken Burns hardcover selection. Six hardcover classics, including: The Civil War: An Illustrated History, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, Jazz: A History of America's Music, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Baseball: An Illustrated History, and Lewis... Read more >