PublicAffairs
A Most Wicked Conspiracy: The Last Great Swindle of the Gilded Age
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In 1898, flakes of gold can be found in creeks and meadows and atop bedrock across wide swaths of northwest Alaska, leading to a ...Read Review
Hitler’s Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich
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Just after the Royal Air Force drops more than 650,000 firebombs and destroys at least 80,000 homes in Dresden, Germany, Hildebrand Gurlitt packs up his ...Read Review
Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny
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The title says it all! Between 1534 and 1594, Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy changed the face and internal fabric of England. The rejection ...Read Review
The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story that Sparked the Civil War
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In 1830, after 41 years in slavery, Josiah Henson fled Kentucky with his wife and four children, walking 600 miles and finding freedom on Canadian soil. ...Read Review
The Empire Must Die: Russia’s Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917
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This is not a traditional history that attempts to explain why the 300-year-old Russia Empire was overthrown by Communism in 1917. Acknowledging that the ...Read Review
Tudor: the Family Story
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What a story this is. The perfect book for the legions of readers obsessed by the bloody Tudor dynasty, it ‘recalibrates our perspective’ ...Read Review
The King’s Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin
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The Mancini sisters were the crème de la crème of 17th-century French society. Born and raised in Rome, they found themselves ...Read Review
Esther’s Pillow
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Nickerly, Kansas in 1911 is a small, insular, religiously conservative farming community in which the townswomen’s major recreation is membership in the Civic ...Read Review
