From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, whose best-selling thriller The End of the October all but predicted our current pandemic, comes another momentus account, this time of COVID-19: its origins, its myriad repercussions, and ...

The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil-rights breakthrough of the new millennium.  On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were uncon...

Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world? And what can we do about it? A former White House aide and close confidante to President Barack Obama -- and New York Times bestselling author of The World as It Is -- travels the globe ...

An award-winning political journalist for The Atlantic tells the story of an embattled Democratic party seeking a direction for its future during the Trump years, and how it successfully regained the White HouseIn Reckoning Edward-Isaac Dovere, staff...

Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. Writing with authority and brio, Giulio Boccaletti—chief strategy officer and global ambassador for w...

The madcap true story of how Rachel Johnson (known since childhood as "Rake")--born into one of Britain's most famous political families--tries and fails to get elected in the 2019 hard-fought effort to stop Brexit, running against her older brother,...

The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, including extensive new reporting, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming scandals, secrets, and mismanagement during the Obama and Trump years --by the Pulitzer Prize w...

Bestselling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a collection of contemporary essays.Becoming Los Angeles, a new collection by the author of the acclaimed memoir Holy Land, blends history, memory, and ...

An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential legacy—from the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus Four decades after Ronald Reagan’s landsl...

"There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil."--Bill GatesAn essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world--exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, t...

"All disasters are in some sense man-made."Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters.Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like e...

An important, urgently needed book from the much-admired senior senator from Minnesota, and former candidate for president of the United States--a fascinating exploration of antitrust in America and the way forward to protect all Americans from the d...