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GORDON S . WOODFriends Divided: John Adams and Thomas JeffersonFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a biography of two of America's most fas-cinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose falling out changed its course."[Wood] turns his intellectual honesty and clear-eyed prose to the lives of Jefferson and of Adams, giving us a brilliant portrait of their complicated relationship. This is an indis-pensable account of two men, of the country they built, and of why their legacies matter even now. Bravo!"—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American LionPenguin Press Hardcover • 512 pages • 978-0-7352-2471-1 • $35.00

STEVEN HAHNA Nation Without BordersThe United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910In the latest volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn presents a provocative reinterpretation of the eight de-cades surrounding the Civil War and leading into the twentieth century.“This tour de force bristles with fresh insights gained from often surprising vantage points....A must read.”—Sven Beckert, Harvard University, author of Empire of CottonViking Hardcover • 608 pages • 978-0-670-02468-1 • $35.00 Penguin Paperback • 608 pages • 978-0-14-312178-7 • $20.00 • December 2017

EL IZABETH BROWN PRYORSix Encounters with LincolnA President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons“Nuanced….Pryor paints a provocative historical portrait while testing common assumptions about an American icon.”—The New Yorker“Fascinating….The notion that democracy involves compromises resonates today.” —The New York Times Book ReviewViking Hardcover • 496 pages • 978-0-670-02590-9 • $35.00

RON CHERNOWGrantPulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Grant is a grand synthesis of painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of all sides of Grant's life, ex-plaining how this simple Midwesterner could at once be so ordinary and so extraordinary.Penguin Press Hardcover • 1104 pages • 978-1-59420-487-6 • $40.00

ANDREW CARROLLMy Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great WarCarroll draws on a trove of little-known letters and diaries to create a vivid account of the American experience in World War I, with General Pershing featured in the foreground.“Carroll has produced an engaging and informative introduction to a war that has been largely relegated to the shadows by the subsequent global conflagration.”—Publishers WeeklyPenguin Press Hardcover • 416 pages • 978-1-59420-648-1 • $30.00

NANCY ISENBERGWhite Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America“[Isenberg] deftly explores the interplay of mockery and denial in treatments, historical and fictional, of hardships and limits in a supposed land of equal and abundant opportu-nity.”—Alan Taylor, University of Virginia, author of American Colonies“A magisterial study of the unjustly neglected poor whites who have helped to compose the American identity in crucial fashion....This is breathtaking social history and daz-zling cultural analysis at its best."—Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown UniversityPenguin Paperback • 496 pages • 978-0-14-312967-7 • $17.00

BLANCHE WIESEN COOKEleanor RooseveltThe War Years and After, 1939-1962, Volume 3“The completion of Blanche Wiesen Cook’s monumental and inspirational life of Elea-nor Roosevelt is a notable event….Keeping the focus on her actions and reactions, Cook skillfully narrates the epic history of the war years.”—The New York Times Book ReviewPenguin Paperback • 688 pages • 978-0-14-310962-4 • $20.00

ROBERT DALLEKFranklin D. Roosevelt: A Political LifeThis one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the bestselling biographer of JFK, focuses on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal maker.“Sparing neither criticism nor admiration, Robert Dallek offers an FDR relevant to our sharply divided nation: a master politician who gained the trust of most of his fellow Americans by empathizing eloquently with their problems and working himself to death to solve them.”—Michael Kazin, Georgetown UniversityViking Hardcover • 704 pages • 978-0-525-42790-2 • $40.00

SUSAN QU INNEleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First LadyAn account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok, which transformed and empowered both women to play significant roles in a tumultuous time in American history.“A powerfully moving and vital story that could not have been told in its day, and alters radi-cally what we thought we knew about America’s most influential and best-loved First Lady.” —Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life Penguin Paperback • 416 pages • 978-0-14-311071-2 • $18.00

ADAM COHENImbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck“The story of an assault upon thousands of defenseless people seen through the lens of a young woman, Carrie Buck, locked away in a Virginia state asylum. In meticulously tracing her ordeal, Cohen provides a superb history of eugenics in America.”—David Oshinksy, The New York Times Book Review (cover review)Penguin Paperback • 416 pages • 978-0-14-310999-0 • $18.00

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NANCY MacLEANDemocracy in ChainsThe Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America“MacLean tells the long-overlooked story of the political economist who developed the playbook for the Koch brothers....Professor MacLean’s meticulous research and shrewd insights make this a must-read for all who believe in government ‘by the people.’ ”—Nancy Isenberg, author of White Trash“Mesmerizing. Rarely have I encountered a work that speaks to such significant issues, with evidence rooted in conclusive new sources….Everyone who wants to understand today’s confrontational politics should read this important book, now.”—Alice Kessler-Harris, author of In Pursuit of EquityViking Hardcover • 368 pages • 978-1-101-98096-5 • $28.00

LAWRENCE O 'DONNELLPlaying with FireThe 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics“In this delightful combination of vivid storytelling and sharp political insight, Lawrence O'Donnell brings to life the most fascinating election of modern times. His book is filled with memorable anecdotes and colorful characters, from Roger Ailes and Richard Nixon to Bobby Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. But beneath the rollicking tale is a truly profound historical truth: how the Sixties still reverberates in our nation's soul.”—Walter IsaacsonPenguin Press Hardcover • 496 pages • 978-0-399-56314-0 • $28.00

HOLL IS ROBB INS and HENRY LOU IS GATES , JR . , ed i t o r sThe Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women WritersThis diverse collection comprises work from 49 writers arranged into sections of memoir, po-etry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy of African American women writers. “An extraordinary historical record.”—The New York Times Book ReviewPenguin Classics Paperback • 656 pages • 978-0-14-310599-2 • $23.00

BHU SR IN IVASANAmericana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism“A wonderfully readable and entertaining panorama of the innovators and entrepre-neurs who have shaped our history.”—Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lords of FinancePenguin Press Hardcover • 576 pages • 978-0-399-56379-9 • $30.00

ADMIRAL JAMES STAVR ID IS , USN (RET. )Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's OceansFrom one of the most admired admirals of his generation—and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO—comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world’s most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. Penguin Press Hardcover • 384 pages • 978-0-7352-2059-1 • $28.00

DAVA SOBELThe Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the StarsIn the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing wom-en as calculators to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope. The Glass Universe is the hidden history of the women whose contributions to the bur-geoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and universe."Sensitive, exacting, and lit with the wonder of discovery."—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth ExtinctionPenguin Paperback • 336 pages • 978-0-14-311134-4 • $18.00

RANDALL FULLERThe Book That Changed AmericaHow Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a NationThis compelling account chronicles the impact Darwin’s On the Origin of Species had on a group of American writers, abolitionists, and social reformers in 1860: Asa Gray, Charles Loring Brace, Franklin Sanborn, Bronson Alcott, and Henry David Thoreau. “A lively...account of the enthusiasm—and consternation—provoked by Darwin’s master-piece among his first influential American readers.”—Lawrence Buell, Harvard UniversityViking Hardcover • 304 pages • 978-0-525-42833-6 • $27.00

DAN ZAKAlmightyCourage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear AgeZak uses the infiltration of peace activists into the Y-12 National Security Complex as a lens through which to examine America’s love-hate relationship to the nuclear bomb, from the race to achieve atomic power before the Nazis did to the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima.“This is a strangely captivating book….Zak’s narrative is a perfectly measured blend of biography, suspense, and history.”—Kai Bird, The New York Times Book ReviewBlue Rider Paperback • 416 pages • 978-0-7352-1231-2 • $18.00

JOHN T. EDGEThe Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South“In this rich, compact history of the South through its food and cooks…Edge has pro-duced a wonderful narrative of the region’s evolution on race, gender, and justice, with a light-handed knowingness at once sympathetic and critical.”—Diane McWhorter, Pulit-zer Prize-winning author of Carry Me HomePenguin Press Hardcover • 384 pages • 978-1-59420-655-9 • $28.00

COL IN WOODARDAmerican Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common GoodWoodard explores how different regions have navigated the struggle between individual-ism and collectivism, and offers suggestions to achieve balance.“A big-dipper ride through four centuries as first collectivists then individualists take their turn at managing the country….Vital.”—Portland Press-HeraldPenguin Paperback • 320 pages • 978-0-14-311000-2 • $17.00

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