How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump? From a Washington reporter for The New York Times comes the definitive story of the mutiny that shattered American politics.Jeremy Peters's epic narrative of the fracture and collapse of the Rep...

A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached yet another turning point that will define the era ahead.Today, in the midst of a new economic cri...

An award-winning political journalist for The Atlantic tells the story of an embattled Democratic party during the Trump years, and its fractious attempt to regain the White House in 2020In You Are Right to Be Concerned, Edward-Isaac Dovere, staff wr...

Veteran climber Mark Synnott never planned on climbing Mount Everest, but a hundred-year mystery lured him into an expedition--and an awesome history of passionate adventure, chilling tragedy, and human aspiration unfolded.   On June 8, 1924, Ge...

The first full biography of "the Darwin of Homeric Studies"--arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century--who overturned the long entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and expanded the very idea of literature.In the e...

A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them died in the...

From the coauthor of the award-winning Nonstop Metropolis--a short, fascinating journey into the past, present, and future of New York City through its place names and the stories they contain.Drawing on his background in cultural geography, Joshua J...

From breakout writer and peerless new voice Hanif Abdurraqib, the New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, comes a personal and introspective examination of black performance in America, in which race,...

The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, RandolphWe think we know Winston Churchill: the bulldog grimace, the ever-present cigar, the wit and wisdom that led Great Britain through the Second Worl...

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

A celebration of the great speeches of world history and cultural life. A VINTAGE ORIGINALIn this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Some speeches are...

At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city.Horizontal Vertigo: The title r...