The Cold War dominated world history for nearly half a century, locking two superpowers in a global rivalry that only ended with the Soviet collapse. The most decisive moments of twentieth-century dip
"The best one-volume history of the United States ever written" (Joseph J. Ellis), now updated to cover the Obama and Trump presidenciesIn America, Empire of Liberty, prizewinning historian David Reyn
Thomas Jefferson envisioned the United States as a great "empire of liberty." In this single-volume history of the United States, David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the American saga.
It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great “empire of liberty.” This paradoxical phrase may be the key to the American saga: How could the anti-empire of 1776 bec
Winston Churchill fought the World War II twice over-first as Prime Minister during the war, and then later as the war’s premier historian. From 1948-54, he published six volumes of memoirs. Th
