By Ben Carson Zondervan, $14.99, 224 pages If you’ve watched the news lately, you’ve likely heard about Ben Carson. Neurosurgeon, professor, author, and inspiring political mind Dr. Carson gave a now-famous speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in early February …
By Rob Dietz, Dan O’Neill Berrett Koehler, $19.95, 240 pages That roar you hear on the horizon is the next generation rising in protest at their inheritance from the Me Generation: unfathomable debt, crashed financial markets, and a thoroughly exploited …
By Melinda L. Pash New York University Press, $35.00, 336 pages Caught between the two most discussed wars of the twentieth century, the “good” war that was World War II and the “bad” war in Vietnam, the Korean War is …
By Michael Moss Random House, $28.00, 480 pages This book isn’t meant to be an indictment of the way America eats; really, it’s an indictment of the food industry and how carefully it has engineered its products and orchestrated its …
By Simon Garfield Gotham, $27.50, 464 pages With careful detail, this fascinating history takes the reader from the earliest recorded maps to the electronic and satellite-generated maps of today. Starting with the first world maps from the Great Library at Alexandria through …
By Kurt Eichenwald Touchstone, $30.00, 611 pages This is a stunningly good, and often sad and depressing, account of the first five hundred days of the Bush administration’s response to 9/11. As detailed here, a number of innocent people were labeled as …
By Michael Austin Prometheus Books, $19.00, 253 pages Over the years, different political factions have tried to claim the Founding Fathers as their own, saying that their views align perfectly with those of the men who founded America, and clearly anyone who …
By James G. Basker, editor Library of America, $40.00, 886 pages To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Library of America has compiled an impressive collection of antislavery writings from the late 17th century through to the passage of …
By DK Publishing DK Publishing, $30.00, 320 pages The editors at DK Publishing, in concert with the Smithsonian, have collected this comprehensive visual guide to 20th and early 21st century history. Each page is a visual scrapbook with photos, maps, graphs and …
By Karen Elliott House Knopf, 28.95, 308 pages It is a kingdom that has important implications for the world economy. Yet few people truly understand its history, culture, or the people who live in Saudi Arabia. In this new book, Karen House explores …
By Nigel Pollard, Joanne Berry Thames & Hudson, $39.95, 240 pages Not only the legions of Rome but her co-evolving politics, organization and frontiers are lovingly detailed in this superlative volume. The authors progress cogently from the original, almost legendary, units of …
By Nigel Jones St. Martin’s Press, $35.00, 464 pages If you need a wonderful gift for any Anglophiles of your acquaintance, I’m quite certain that nothing could please them more than a copy of this gorgeous book. It’s a ‘Wow!’ for sure. …
By Robert Hutchinson St. Martin’s Press, $27.99, 368 pages For centuries, the public has been fascinated with Henry VIII and his legacy. Thanks to TV shows like The Tudors, King Henry has become part of the popular culture. Is it any wonder …
By Jonathan Jones Knopf, $35.00, 354 pages This is a rich and thorough book. Although the book weighs in at 354 pages and appears daunting, seventy-one pages of it are author notes, list of art, and bibliography. The text is interspersed with …
By Bernard Bailyn Knopf, $35.00, 640 pages Bailyn is a long-time expert on early American history and the American Revolution. In his newest book, he tells the history of the years 1600-1675 on the North American continent. This is not a demographic …
