random house 2013-2014 history catalog

HISTORYNew & Recommended

Books for Course Adoption

www.randomhouse.com/academicj

2 0 1 3 – 2 0 1 4

—FEATURING—

DAVID GRAEBER’sHistory of Debt

ERIK LARSON’s“novelistic history”

of WWII

BRUCE LEVINEon the Post-Bellum South

FREDRIKLOGEVALLon the Making ofAmerica’s Vietnam

JONMEACHAMon Jefferson

KIM E. NIELSENonWriting a

Disability History

SANDRA DAYO’CONNOR’sHistory of theSupreme Court

LAWRENCESCOTT SHEETS’sJourney throughSoviet Collapse

AuthorSpotlight:ANTHONYEVERITT

Ancient History ..............................................................................................32

U.S. History ....................................................................................................32

Asian History ..................................................................................................38

Canadian History ............................................................................................38

European History ............................................................................................39

Middle Eastern History....................................................................................41

Military History ..............................................................................................41

World History..................................................................................................44

General History ..............................................................................................45

Gender Studies ..............................................................................................46

History of Religion ..........................................................................................46

Holocaust Studies ..........................................................................................47

Order Form......................................................................................................48

C O N T E N T S

EXAMINATION COPIESExamination copies are available to instructors seeking titles to review for adoption consideration.

The exam copy prices are as follows: $3.00 for each paperback priced under $20.00, and 50% off theretail price for all hardcovers and paperbacks priced at or over $20.00. Examination copies are limited to

ten per instructor per school year and can only be mailed to valid U.S. addresses.

To order, use the order form at the back of this catalog. Examination copies must be prepaid with acheck or money order made payable to Random House, Inc., or order online at

www.randomhouse.com/academic/examcopy. Offer only valid in the United States. All requests aresubject to approval and availability. Please allow 2–4 weeks for delivery.

/CommonReads

@CommonReads

LEGEND: HC = Hardcover • TR = Trade Paperback • MM =Mass Market • NCR = No Canadian Rights

VISIT OUR BLOGS LIKE US ON FACEBOOK

FOLLOW US ONTWITTER

BOOKMARK OUR SITE

JOIN THE RANDOM HOUSE NETWORK

www.randomhouse.com/academic

Behind the Beautiful forevers By Katherine Boo ................................2–3

india By Diana L. Eck ..................................................................................4–5

deBt By David Graeber ................................................................................6–7

the liBerator By Alex Kershaw ................................................................8–9

in the Garden of Beasts By Erik Larson................................................10–11

the fall of the house of dixie By Bruce Levine ..................................12–13

emBers of War By Fredrik Logevall ........................................................14–15

thomas Jefferson By Jon Meacham ....................................................16–17

10 Years that shook the World By Loretta Napoleoni ........................18–19

a disaBilitY historY of the united states By Kim E. Nielsen ............20–21

out of order By Sandra Day O’Connor ..................................................22–23

the Black count By Tom Reiss ..............................................................24–25

eiGht Pieces of emPire By Lawrence Scott Sheets ................................26–27

the taste of ashes By Marci Shore ........................................................28–29

Who stole the american dream? By Hedrick Smith............................30–31

SUBJECT CATEGORIESFEATURED TITLES

Stay current on the latest freshman year andcommon reading program adoptions and news

www.commonreads.com

Read and respond to original author essays,and win free review copies

www.debatethisbook.com

Discover new book recommendations, taken directlyfrom college and university syllabi nationwide

www.makemerequiredreading.com

Random House, Inc. • Academic Dept. • 1745 Broadway • NewYork, NY 10019Tel: 212-782-8482 • Fax: 212-782-8915 •) [email protected]

Spotlight on Anthony Everitt

the rise of romethe making of the World’s Greatest empire

From acclaimed biographer Anthony Everitt comes The Rise ofRome: a fascinating account of Rome and its remarkable ascent

from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire theworld has ever known.Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in theeighth and seventh centuries B.C., Rome grew to become theancient world’s preeminent power. In the end, Rome’s decline andfall have long fascinated historians, but the story of how the empirewas won is every bit as compelling. With The Rise of Rome, one ofthe most revered chroniclers of the ancient world tells that tale in away that will galvanize, inform, and enlighten modern readers.“Everitt traces, with lucid, pithy prose, Rome’s rise from a tinysettlement on the banks of the Tiber River to the conquerors of theentirety of the Mediterranean basin.With a brisk narrative rangingfrommythological founders Aeneas and Romulus and Remus to thecivil war between Sulla and Marius, [he] takes readers on aremarkable journey into the creation of the great civilization’spolitical institutions, cultural traditions, and social hierarchy. . . .[A] comprehensive, engaging work that will captivate and informfrom beginning to end.” —Booklist

ANTHONY EVERITT, visiting professor in the visual and performing arts atNottingham Trent University, has written extensively on European culture, and isthe author of Cicero and Augustus. He has served as secretary general of the ArtsCouncil of Great Britain. Everitt lives near Colchester, England’s first recorded town,founded by the Romans.

Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6663-6512pp | $30.00/$35.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00

also available:e-Book: 978-0-679-64516-0 | $14.99/$16.99 Can.

auGustusthe life of rome’s first emperor

A stunning account of Rome’s firstemperor, Everitt brings to life theworld of a giant, rendered faithfullyand sympathetically in human scale.A study of power and political genius,Augustus is a vivid, compellingbiography of one of the mostimportant rulers in history.Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7058-6432pp. | $18.00/$22.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-555-2 | $13.99/$14.99 Can.

cicerothe life and times of rome’sGreatest Politician

“Everitt’s eye for the telling detail and

his superb grasp of the ancient sources

bring new life to the single most

complex personality of a fascinating

and violent age.”

—Richard Martin, Professor of Classics,Stanford University

Random House | TR | 978-0-375-75895-9400pp. | $17.00/$21.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-034-2 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.

hadrianand the triumph of rome

Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived throughand ruled during a tempestuous era.Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’sthrilling life, in which the emperorbrings a century of disorder and costlywarfare to a peaceful conclusion whiledemonstrating how a monarchy can becompatible with good governance.Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7814-8448pp. | $18.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-896-6 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.

Also by the Author

About the Author: Katherine BooKATHERINE BOO is a staff writer at The New Yorker, and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. She is thewinner of a MacArthur “genius” award, a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and the Pulitzer Prize. She has dividedher time between the U.S. and India for 10 years. This is her first book.

Winner, 2012 national Book award

selected for common reading at michigan state university, skidmore college,and university of delaware

named one of the ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times,TheWashington Post, among others

Hailed by author and historian Ramchandra Guha as “the bestwork of narrative nonfiction I’ve read in twenty-five years,”

Behind the Beautiful Forevers is Pulitzer Prize winner KatherineBoo’s landmark work depicting the dire conditions of India’s urbanpoor. Based on three years of uncompromising reporting, acomplex age of global change and inequality is made human.India’s—and the world’s—recent history is one of seismic change,affected by quick-moving capital and declining governmentsupports. It is during these volatile economic times that Booexamines the issues of post-colonial poverty, opportunity, andglobal development through the experiences of those who live inAnnawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotelsnear the Mumbai airport.With intelligence and deep insight into what connects humanbeings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind theBeautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of thetwenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of peopleimpossible to forget.“[An] exquisitely accomplished first book. Novelists dream ofdefining characters this swiftly and beautifully, but Ms. Boo is not anovelist. She is one of those rare, deep-digging journalists who canmake truth surpass fiction, a documentarian with a superb sense ofhuman drama. She makes it very easy to forget that this book isthe work of a reporter. . . . Comparison to Dickens is notunwarranted.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“A beautiful account, told through real-life stories, of the sorrowsand joys, the anxieties and stamina, in the lives of the precariousand powerless in urban India whom a booming country has failedto absorb and integrate. A brilliant book that simultaneouslyinforms, agitates, angers, inspires, and instigates.”

—Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at HarvardUniversity, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

Behind the Beautifulforeverslife, death, and hope in a mumbai undercityBy Katherine Boo

Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6755-8 | 272pp.$28.00/$32.00 Can. | exam copy: $14.00


teacher’s Guide available

www.randomhouse.com/academic2

Website:www.BehindtheBeautifulforevers.com

for author video, go to:www.BehindtheBeautifulforevers.com/video

AMessage from the Author

As jobs and capital whip around the planet, college students will graduate into a worldwhere economic instability and social inequality are increasing and geographic boundariesmatter less and less. Unfortunately, globalization and social inequality remain two of the mostover-theorized, under-reported issues of our age. My book is an intimate investigative accountof how this volatile new reality affects the young people of an Indian slum called Annawadi.Like young people elsewhere, the Annawadians are trying to figure out their place in a worldwhere temp jobs are becoming the norm, adaptability is everything, and bewildering change isthe one abiding constant.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers took me three hard years to report, and one thought thatsustained me was that I had a unique opportunity to show American readers that the distancebetween themselves and, say, a teenaged boy in Mumbai who finds an entrepreneurial niche inother people’s garbage, is not nearly as great as they might think. In the two decades I’ve spentwriting about poverty and how people get out of it, I’ve come to believe, viscerally, that thereare deep connections among individuals that transcend specificities of geography, culture,religion, or class. The problem is that, in a time of high walls and security gates, it’s gettingharder for people of means to grasp the struggles of less privileged people.

Behind one such high wall, near the increasingly glamorous Mumbai airport, a sensitivegirl is studying Othello in a makeshift hut by a vast sewage lake and dreading an arrangedmarriage that might send her to a rural village. A convention-defying disabled woman islonging to be acknowledged as a valid human being. A smart teenaged boy named Mirchi isresisting the garbage-recycling work that is his family trade. Instead he dreams of being awaiter at a fancy hotel, sticking toothpicks into cubes of cheese. “Watch me,” he snaps at hismother one day. “I’ll have a bathroom as big as this hut!” Over the course of time, as Mirchiand the other residents of the slum apply their imaginations to overcoming corruption andinjustice and making better lives for themselves, the broader contours of the market-global ageare gradually revealed.

Although I’m elated when readers join me in thinking about how to build a fairer worldfor people, I don’t consider didactic lectures an effective way to engage people—particularlyyoung people—in questions about fairness and justice. Nor do I think young people wantmawkishly sentimental or sensationalized nonfiction. Stereotypes put them off, and theyknow when they’re being manipulated. What they want, in my experience, is good, concreteinformation from which they can work out what they think for themselves.

With a combination of extensive observation and documents-based reporting, I try to pullthe reader in close to the lives and dilemmas of the poor while unfolding a story that ispowerful and honest enough to keep readers turning the pages. By the last page, I’d like tobelieve that some young readers will also find themselves wrestling with essential questions ofour time: about how opportunity is distributed across the world; about what an individualshould be willing to give up to get ahead; about the interconnections between, say, the collapseof investment banks in Manhattan and the price Mumbai waste-pickers receive for theirempty plastic water bottles; about whether it is possible to be good and moral in a society thatis not good and moral; and about the ultimate value of a human life.

Katherine Boo

3to order exam copies, visit www.randomhouse.com/academic/examcopy

About the Author:Diana L. Eck

DIANA L. ECK is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies at Harvard University and is Master of Lowell Houseand Director of the Pluralism Project. Her book Banaras, City of Light, remains a classic in the field, and Encountering God: ASpiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras won the prestigious Grawemeyer Book Award. In 1998, President Clinton awardedher the National Humanities Medal for the work of the Pluralism Project in the investigation of America’s religious diversity.

In India, one finds a landscape in which mountains, rivers,forests, and villages are elaborately linked to the stories of thegods and heroes of Indian culture. Places in the vast landscape eachhave their own story, and conversely, stories of Hindu myth andlegend each have their own place. Likewise, these places areinextricably tied to one another—not simply in the past, but in thepresent—through the local, regional, and transregional practices ofpilgrimage.

In India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana L.Eck tells the story of the pilgrim’s India. In these pages, Eck takesstudents on an extraordinary spiritual journey through the livinglandscape of this fascinating country—its mountains, rivers, andseacoasts, its ancient and powerful temples and shrines. Seeking tofully understand the sacred places of pilgrimage from the groundup, with their stories, connections and layers of meaning, sheacutely examines Hindu religious ideas and narratives and showshow they have been deeply inscribed in the land itself. Eckdemonstrates that from these networks of pilgrimage places,India’s very sense of region and nation has emerged.

Based on extensive knowledge and many decades of wide-rangingtravel and research, India: A Sacred Geography is a sweeping andseminal work of religious, cultural and anthropological history.

“In this lucid, learned and luminous book, Diana Eck introduces the

Western reader to the sacred landscape of India. She leads us into

an unfamiliar world, with myths and symbols that seem initially

strange, but by the end of this rich journey we find that we have

encountered unexpected regions within ourselves.”

—Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God andTwelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

indiaa sacred GeographyBy Diana L. Eck

Harmony | HC | 978-0-385-53190-0 | 576pp.$27.00/$32.00 Can. | exam copy $13.50

Do not order paperback before 3/26/2013.Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-385-53192-4 | 576pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy $3.00



Excerpt from India: A Sacred Geography, An Imagined Landscape

I began thinking about this book in the city of Banaras on the River Ganga in north Indiamore than twenty-five years ago. I was then writing a book about that great city, a place Ipresumed to be the most important sacred city of India. Over the centuries, many visitors toBanaras, or Varanasi, have compared this city in sanctity and preeminence to Mecca,Jerusalem, and Rome, as the holiest center of Hindu pilgrimage. For example, in the 1860s, aBritish civil servant, Norman Macleod, wrote effusively, “Benares is to the Hindoos whatMecca is to the Mohammedans, and what Jerusalem was to the Jews of old. It is the ‘holy’ cityof Hindostan. I have never seen anything approaching to it as a visible embodiment ofreligion; nor does anything like it exist on earth.” The singling out of a center toward which anentire religious community turns in collective memory or in prayer made sense to Macleod, asit does for many who have been schooled in the habits of thought shaped by Westernmonotheistic consciousness. Even in India, there have been many who would agree on thecentral and supreme significance of Banaras, which Hindus also called Kashi, the Luminous,the City of Light. This is a powerful and ancient city, its dense maze of alleyways as dark as itsriverfront is radiant. Its morning bathing rites facing the rising sun and its smoking cremationgrounds right there along the riverfront are the heartbeat of a city that never fails to leave alasting imprint on the visitor or pilgrim.

I lived off and on for years in Banaras. Even as I investigated the legends and temples ofthis city, however, I began gradually to understand what most Hindus who visit the cityalready know—that Banaras does not stand alone as the great center of pilgrimage for Hindus,but is part of an extensive network of pilgrimage places stretching throughout the length andbreadth of India. The very names of the temples, the ghats, and the bathing tanks of the cityare derived from this broader landscape, just as the names of Kashi and its great Shiva templeof Vishvanatha are to be found in pilgrimage places all over India. I began to realize that theentire land of India is a great network of pilgrimage places—referential, inter-referential,ancient and modern, complex and ever-changing. As a whole, it constitutes what would haveto be called a “sacred geography,” as vast and complex as the whole of the subcontinent. In thiswider network of pilgrimage, nothing, not even the great city of Banaras, stands alone, butrather everything is part of a living, storied, and intricately connected landscape.

At first, I resisted the complexities of this peripheral vision, still interested as I was inestablishing what makes this one place special, different from the rest. It became clear to me,however, that I could understand Banaras only in the context of a much wider system ofmeanings in which significance is marked not by uniqueness, but by multiplicity, even in thegreat city of Kashi. Everything about the holy city seemed to be duplicated elsewhere, set amida pattern of symbolic signification that made Banaras not unique, but inextricably part of awider landscape shaped by the repetition and linking of its features. I began to realize thatKashi was not the center, but one of multiple centers in a fascinating and polycentriclandscape, linked with the tracks of pilgrimage.


Excerpted from India by Diana L. Eck. Copyright © 2012 by Diana L Eck. Excerpted by permission of Harmony, a division of Random House, Inc. Allrights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

About the Author:David GraeberDAVID GRAEBER teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Towards an AnthropologicalTheory of Value; Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar; Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology; Possibilities:Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire; and Direct Action: An Ethnography. He has written for Harper’s, The Nation, Mute,and The New Left Review. In 2006, he delivered the Malinowski Memorial Lecture at the London School of Economics, anannual talk that honors “outstanding anthropologists who have fundamentally shaped the study of culture.”

Economic textbooks tend to repeat the same trope: Money wasinvented to replace an onerous and complicated barter

system—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goodsto market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not ashred of evidence to support it.Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal ofconventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years,since the beginning of the agrarian empires, humans have usedelaborate credit systems to barter. It is in this era, Graeber shows,that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors andcreditors.With the passage of time, however, virtual credit money wasreplaced by gold and silver coins—and the system as a whole beganto decline. Interest rates spiked and the indebted became slaves.And the system perpetuated itself with tremendously violentconsequences, with only the rare intervention of kings andchurches keeping the system from spiraling out of control.Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a fascinating chronicle of this little-known history—as well as how it has defined human history, andwhat it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the futureof our economy.“His writings on anthropological theory are outstanding. I considerhim the best anthropological theorist of his generation fromanywhere in the world.”

—Maurice Bloch, Professor of Anthropology at the London School ofEconomics and European Professor at the College de France

deBt: the first 5,000 YearsBy David Graeber

Melville House | TR | 978-1-61219-129-4 | 544pp.$22.00/$22.00 Can. | exam copy: $11.00



CONTENTS

chapter one: on the experience of moral confusion

chapter two: the myth of Barter

chapter three: Primordial debts

chapter four: cruelty and redemption

chapter five: a Brief treatise on the moral Grounds of economic relations

chapter six: Games with sex and death

chapter seven: honor and degradation, or, on the foundations of

contemporary civilization

chapter eight: credit versus Bullion, and the cycles of history

chapter nine: the axial age (800 Bc – 600 ad)

chapter ten: the middle ages (600 ad – 1450 ad)

chapter eleven: age of the Great capitalist empires (1450 – 1971)

chapter twelve: (1971 – the Beginning of something Yet to Be determined)

notes

Bibliography

index

for author video, go to:tiny.cc/8g7dow

Forthcoming from the Author:

the democracY ProJecta history, a crisis, a movementDo not order before 4/9/2013.Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-8129-9356-1 | 352pp.$26.00/$31.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00

also available:

Audio: 978-0-385-36041-8 | $17.50/$20.50 Can.e-Book: 978-0-679-64600-6 | $13.99/$15.99 Can.


Debt is all around us. Modern economies run on consumer debt; modern nation-states,on deficit financing; international relations turn on debt. What’s more, for the last three years,we’ve faced a global debt crisis that’s hobbled the world economy and still threatens to send itcrashing into ruins. Yet no one ever stops to ask: How did this happen? What is debt, anyway?What does it even mean to say we “owe” someone something? How did it happen that, inalmost all times and places in human history, “paying your debts” has been a synonym formorality, but money-lenders have been seen as the embodiment of evil? I first began askingmyself these questions as an activist, during the “drop the debt” campaigns in the early 2000s.But it was only after the financial meltdown of September 2008 that answering them became adriving passion. It seemed to me that in the days immediately after the crash, the space hadopened up for a genuine conversation about money, markets, credit, and finance, about thenature of debt, about value, the relation of money and morality, about what people genuinelyowe to one another. Yet somehow, this conversation never happened.

It was as if we’ve forgotten how to ask big questions any more.

It was at this point I realized that with my training in history and anthropology, I was in aunique position to try to open the conversation up. Thus began a series of investigations thatculminated in the writing of this book. What I discovered along the way startled even me.First of all, almost all our familiar assumptions about money history turned out to be wrong.We are used to assuming that economic life began with barter, moved on to money, and onlythen did we develop credit systems. In fact, what happened was precisely the opposite. Creditcame first. What we’d now call “virtual money” preceded coinage by thousands of years, andhuman history has alternated back and forth between periods of virtual money, and periodsdominated by gold and silver—which have also, invariably, been times of empire, war, andslavery. What’s more, since the dawn of recorded history, arguments over credit, debt, virtualand physical money have been at the very center of political life—the language of the Bibleand other great religious texts resonates with it, untold popular uprisings have been inspiredby it, and the outcome of these battles have shaped our own laws, our economic institutions,our very conceptions of freedom and morality, in ways we can no longer even see.

Reconstructing this history of debt reveals odd concepts—life debts, blood debts, fleshdebts, milk debts—but also, throws all our familiar conceptions of history askew, from the realnature of the African slave trade, to the origins of Adam Smith’s free market rhetoric inMedieval Islam. Above all, it reveals we stand, today, at a precipice. There is every reason thatthe return to virtual money marks a major turning point in world history. But it’s only bylooking at the full sweep of the past that we have any chance of understanding what that mightreally mean.

David Graeber


About the Author: Alex KershawALEX KERSHAW is the New York Times bestselling author of several books on World War II, including The Bedford Boys andThe Longest Winter. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

T he Liberator offers a new account of the bloodiest and mostdramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battle

odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit asthey fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe—fromthe invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau. Drawing on extensiveinterviews, five years of research in Europe and from archivesacross the U.S., historian Alex Kershaw masterfully recounts one ofthe most inspiring and heroic journeys in military history.

Written with the narrative drive and vivid immediacy, TheLiberator is a story for the ages, an intensely human and dramaticaccount of one of history’s greatest warriors and his unheraldedrole in America’s finest achievement—the defeat of Nazi Germany.“Kershaw’s writing is seamless. He incorporates information from avast array of sources, but it works—you get a sense of the differentvoices coming into the story. . . . A gripping read.”

—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Inspiring. . . . A gripping and superbly told account of men in war.”—Booklist

“Exceptional. . . . The Liberator balances evocative prose withattention to detail and is a worthy addition to vibrant classics ofsmall-unit history like Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers. . . .From the desert of Arizona to the moral crypt of Dachau, Mr.Kershaw’s book bears witness to the hell that America’s innocentscame through, and the humanity they struggled to keep in theirhearts.” —Wall Street Journal

“Kershaw has ensured that individuals and entire battles thatmight have been lost to history, or overshadowed by more‘important’ people and events, have their own place in the vast,protean tale ofWorldWar II. . . . Where Kershaw succeeds, andwhere The Liberator is at its most riveting and satisfying, is in itsdelineation of Felix Sparks as a good man that other men wouldfollow into Hell—and in its unblinking, matter-of-fact description,in battle after battle, of just how gruesome, terrifying anddehumanizing that Hell could be.” —Time.com

“Alex Kershaw’s gripping account of one man’s wartimeexperiences has both the intimacy of a diary and the epic reach of amilitary history. The Liberator reminds us of the complexity andmoral ambiguity of the SecondWorldWar.”

—Amanda Foreman, author of AWorld on Fire

the liBeratoroneWorld War ii soldier’s 500-day odyssey fromthe Beaches of sicily to the Gates of dachauBy Alex Kershaw

Crown | HC | 978-0-307-88799-3 | 448pp.$28.00/$34.00 Can. | exam copy $14.00

also available:Audio: 978-0-449-01263-5 | $40.00/$46.00 Can.e-Book: 978-0-307-88801-3 | $13.99/$15.99 Can.


Website:www.alexkershaw.com


Over many years I have spoken to audiences at universities, veterans’ associations and atmyriad events to commemorate the sacrifice of young Americans in WWII, the greatestconflict in history with a final butcher’s bill of over fifty million lives. Among students inparticular, I have found a great desire to learn about the unknown men and women whoearned victory in WWII, not the strategy, not the games of the generals, not the weapons thatenabled mass industrial slaughter on an unprecedented scale. Thankfully, because of thenature of my work, I have been able to share with many students, as well as readers, the oftendeeply moving and inspiring stories of a generation that bought America more goodwillaround the globe than any other and which is now passing away at a tragically accelerated rate.

At one college recently, I was asked why 135,576 Americans died to liberate Europe. Wastheir death absolutely necessary? Why did young Americans have to lay down their lives insuch huge numbers just a generation after the last bloodbath in Europe?

The answer to this question lies at the heart of The Liberator, my new book, which followsthe fortunes of a maverick infantry officer, Felix Sparks, who fought throughout the time ittook to liberate Europe, from the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 to the war’s end in May 1945.No American endured more heartbreak and violence for longer to free more people from thegreatest evil of modern times. On 29 April 1945, after five hundred days of combat, hecommanded the American unit which seized Hitler’s first and most notorious concentrationcamp, Dachau, liberating over 32,000 people of over forty nationalities amid scenes, herecalled, “that robbed the mind of human reason.” After one of the longest and most dramaticmarches to victory in WWII, he understood and saw why the sacrifice of so many of hismen—his regiment alone had suffered 20,251 casualties—had been necessary.

Before too long, there will be no living eyewitnesses to the liberation of Hitler’s camps, nomore old men who remember the moment they landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, nowidows who recall the true cost of the war in Europe that killed more people more quicklythan at any time in history—more than nineteen million civilians alone. America’s greatestachievement—the defeat of Nazi Europe—will no longer be an experience to be recounted bypeople who were actually there.

As with my other books, The Liberator tries to capture the voices and emotions ofordinary people in the crosshairs of history, at the epicenter of a conflict in which the future ofmankind itself was a stake. Based on interviews with dozens of living eyewitnesses, it revealsthe full horror and debasement of war, how it corrupts even the noblest of spirits. Only byunderstanding the true nature of the trauma involved in defeating Nazism—the so-called“good war”—can we begin to appreciate the magnitude of what Felix Sparks and his fellowliberators achieved. He and his kind defeated immense barbarism—a victory whosesignificance will still be understood, hopefully through books like mine, when the last of theirgeneration has passed away.

Alex Kershaw


About the Author: Erik LarsonERIK LARSON is the bestselling author of Isaac’s Storm, Thunderstruck, and The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, andMadness at the Fair that Changed America, which won the 2004 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category and was afinalist for the National Book Award. He is a former writer for The Wall Street Journal and Timemagazine. Larson has taughtnonfiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and the University of Oregon. He lives inSeattle.

In 1933 William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered history professorfrom Chicago, was chosen by Roosevelt to be the U.S.’s first

ambassador to Nazi Germany. At first he and his family areentranced by the “New Germany,” and Dodd’s daughter Martha hasseveral affairs, including with the first chief of the Gestapo, RudolfDiels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, her fathertelegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Departmentback home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, thepress is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin tocirculate. The Dodds’ experience of excitement and romancemorphs into horror when a climactic spasm of violence and murderreveals Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition.

Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, In the Garden ofBeasts lends a stunning, eyewitness view of events as they unfold inreal time, revealing what it was like for those living there, withoutthe perspective of history neatly delineating their judgments. Theresult is a compelling tale that explores why the world did notrecognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe,were awash in blood and terror.“Larson captivated our community when he came here to speakabout his book, the creative process, and how to weave history andfiction into one brilliant and bone-chilling masterpiece. Heanswered the many questions our students had about his work,and provided them with valuable and insightful information intothe writing process.” —Sanford J. Ungar, President, Goucher College

“By far his best and most enthralling work of novelistic history. . . .Powerful, poignant . . . a transportingly true story.”

—The New York Times

“Larson has meticulously researched the Dodds’ intimate witnessto Hitler’s ascendancy and created an edifying narrative of thishistorical byway that has all the pleasures of a political thriller. . . .a fresh picture of these terrible events.”

—The New York Times Book Review

in the Garden of Beastslove, terror, and an american family in hitler’s BerlinBy Erik Larson

Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-40885-3 | 480pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00



Website:www.eriklarsonBooks.com

Excerpt from In the Garden of Beasts

Once, at the dawn of a very dark time, an American father and daughter found themselvessuddenly transported from their snug home in Chicago to the heart of Hitler’s Berlin. Theyremained there for four and a half years, but it is their first year that is the subject of the storyto follow, for it coincided with Hitler’s ascent from chancellor to absolute tyrant, wheneverything hung in the balance and nothing was certain. That first year formed a kind ofprologue in which all the themes of the greater epic of war and murder soon to come were laiddown.

I have always wondered what it would have been like for an outsider to have witnessedfirsthand the gathering dark of Hitler’s rule. How did the city look, what did one hear, see, andsmell, and how did diplomats and other visitors interpret the events occurring around them?Hindsight tells us that during that fragile time the course of history could so easily havechanged. Why, then, did no one change it? Why did it take so long to recognize the realdanger posed by Hitler and his regime?

Like most people, I acquired my initial sense of the era from books and photographs thatleft me with the impression that the world of then had no color, only gradients of gray andblack. My two main protagonists, however, encountered the flesh-and-blood reality, while alsomanaging the routine obligations of daily life. Every morning they moved through a city hungwith immense banners of red, white, and black; they sat at the same outdoor cafés as did thelean, black-suited members of Hitler’s SS, and now and then they caught sight of Hitlerhimself, a smallish man in a large, open Mercedes. But they also walked each day past homeswith balconies lush with red geraniums; they shopped in the city’s vast department stores, heldtea parties, and breathed deep the spring fragrances of the Tiergarten, Berlin’s main park.They knew Goebbels and Göring as social acquaintances with whom they dined, danced, andjoked—until, as their first year reached its end, an event occurred that proved to be one of themost significant in revealing the true character of Hitler and that laid the keystone for thedecade to come. For both father and daughter it changed everything.

This is a work of nonfiction. As always, any material between quotation marks comesfrom a letter, diary, memoir, or other historical document. I made no effort in these pages towrite another grand history of the age. My objective was more intimate: to reveal that pastworld through the experience and perceptions of my two primary subjects, father anddaughter, who upon arrival in Berlin embarked on a journey of discovery, transformation,and, ultimately, deepest heartbreak.

There are no heroes here, at least not of the Schindler’s List variety, but there are glimmersof heroism and people who behave with unexpected grace. Always there is nuance, albeitsometimes of a disturbing nature. That’s the trouble with nonfiction. One has to put asidewhat we all know—now—to be true, and try instead to accompany my two innocents throughthe world as they experienced it.

These were complicated people moving through a complicated time, before the monstersdeclared their true nature.


Excerpted from In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, copyright © 2011 by Erik Larson. Originally published in hardcover by Crown Publishers in 2011and subsequently in trade paperback by Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2012. Allrights reserved.

About the Author: Bruce LevineBRUCE LEVINE is the J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois. An associate editor of theCivil War magazine North and South, he has published three books on the Civil War era. The most recent of these, ConfederateEmancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War, received the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil WarScholarship and was named one of the ten best nonfiction books of 2005 by The Washington Post.

the fall of the house of dixiethe civil War and the social revolution that transformed the southBy Bruce Levine

Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6703-9 | 464pp.$30.00/$35.00 Can. | exam copy $15.00



Amajor new history of the Civil War, The Fall of the House ofDixie tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the

economic, political, and social life of the old South.In 1860 the American South was a vast, wealthy, imposing regionwhere a small minority had amassed great political power andenormous fortunes. By the end of 1865, these structures of wealthand power had been shattered. Millions of black people had gainedtheir freedom, many poorer whites had ceased following theirwealthy neighbors, and plantation owners were brought to theirknees, losing not only their slaves but also their political power,their worldview, and their very way of life.As historian Bruce Levine demonstrates, the true stakes of theCivil War become clearer than ever before, as slaves battle for theirfreedom in the face of brutal reprisals; Abraham Lincoln and hisparty turn what began as a limited war for the Union into a crusadeagainst slavery; and the slave owners grow ever more desperate astheir beloved social order is destroyed. When the smoke clears, notonly Dixie but all of American society is changed forever.Brilliantly argued and engrossing, The Fall of the House of Dixieilluminates the way a war undertaken to preserve the status quobecame a second American Revolution whose impact on thecountry was as strong and lasting as that of our first. The bookpresents a sweeping account of the destruction of the old Southduring the Civil War, offering a fresh perspective on the mostcolossal struggle in our history and the new world it broughtinto being.“Levine illuminates the experiences of southern men and women—white and black, free and enslaved, civilians and soldiers—with asure grasp of the historical sources and a deft literary touch. Hemasterfully recaptures an era of unsurpassed drama andimportance.” —GaryW. Gallagher, author of The Confederate War

“This book limns the relationship between slavery and the rise andfall of the Confederacy more clearly and starkly than any otherstudy. General readers and seasoned scholars alike will find newinformation and insights in this eye-opening account.”

—James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom

AMessage from the AuthorIn a recent national survey, nearly half of all those queried denied that slavery was the

main cause of the U.S. Civil War. And that view is gaining, not losing, ground. Amongyounger people polled (those under 30 years of age), fully 60% responded that way. Manyuniversity students share that view. Like so many other modern Americans, they have come toregard the Civil War as a dramatic conflict in military terms, one filled with derring-do andpathos, but one without much larger meaning or import. They are therefore surprised to learnnot only that slavery brought on the Civil War but also why and how the defense of thenational Union led to slavery’s destruction. As we now observe the 150th anniversaries of theCivil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, these questions are in the public view morethan at any time in the recent past. I wrote The Fall of the House of Dixie in part to clarifythose subjects and to place them where they belong—at the center of the Civil War narrative.

In 1860–61, leaders of both the Union and the Confederacy knew and said that it wasprecisely the sharpening dispute over slavery’s future that was leading most slave states to tryto break from (and so break up) the U.S., initiating the bloodiest war in the nation’s history toaccomplish that goal. In his inaugural address, “One section of our country believes slavery isright, and ought to be extended,” Abraham Lincoln noted, “while the other believes it iswrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.” The Confederacy’ssecretary of state agreed. Southern whites had decided, he wrote, that the swift growth of theanti-slavery Republican Party threatened “to destroy their social system.” “With interests ofsuch overwhelming magnitude imperiled,” Jefferson Davis explained, “the people of theSouthern States were driven . . . to the adoption of some course of action to avert the danger.”If the preservation of “those interests” and that “social system” required war, Confederatesadded, so be it.

But that war yielded results drastically different from those its leaders intended. AbrahamLincoln’s Union government initially hoped to quell the rebellion quickly and without layinghands on the institution of slavery. But what the former slave and abolitionist leader FrederickDouglass called “the inexorable logic of events” eventually compelled a change of course. Thelogic of the situation taught Lincoln and his party that military victory required an attack onslavery and the recruitment of former slaves as laborers and then as soldiers in the Unioncause. And in the event, as Lincoln noted repeatedly, the active aid of almost 200,000 blacksoldiers and sailors proved crucial to the rebellion’s defeat. The emancipation and recruitmentof these people, Lincoln explained, was “the only” policy that could “can or could save theUnion. Any substantial departure from it insures the success of the rebellion.”

This war-spawned dynamic ultimately led to the constitutional liberation of all slavesliving anywhere in the United States and to the outlawing of slavery per se as an institution.Thus, a conflict that slave owners initiated to preserve slavery ultimately abolished it far earlierand more radically than could have occurred otherwise. That war also wiped out much of theSouthern elite’s wealth and broke its once-powerful grip on national government. Thisfundamental transformation of social and political reality represented (as many at the timerecognized) a second American revolution. The story of how that occurred must form a keybuilding block of any real understanding of this country’s history. In that context, I invite youto consider using my book to engage your students as they encounter this defining era.

Bruce Levine


About the Author: Fredrik LogevallFREDRIK LOGEVALL is John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor of history at Cornell University,where he serves as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

named one of the Best Books of the Year by TheWashington Post

The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the historyof the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades,

the conflict drew in all the world’s powers and saw two of them—first France, then the United States—attempt to subdue therevolutionary Vietnamese forces. For France, the defeat marked theeffective end of her colonial empire, while for America the war lefta gaping wound in the body politic that remains open to this day.Tapping into newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nationsand making full use of the published literature, distinguishedscholar Fredrik Logevall traces the path that led two Westernnations to lose their way in Vietnam. Embers of War opens in 1919at the Versailles Peace Conference, where a young Ho Chi Minhtries to deliver a petition for Vietnamese independence to PresidentWoodrowWilson. It concludes in 1959, with a Viet Cong ambushon an outpost outside Saigon and the deaths of two Americanofficers whose names would be the first to be carved into the blackgranite of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.“In a world full of nascent, potentially protracted wars, FredrikLogevall’s Embers of War is manifestly an important book,illuminating the long, small-step path we followed into thequagmire of Vietnam. But I was also struck by the quality ofLogevall’s writing. He has the eye of a novelist, the cadence of asplendid prose stylist, and a filmmaker’s instinct for story. Embersof War is not just an important book of history, it is an utterlycompelling read.”—Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,

winner of the Pulitzer Prize

“Fredrik Logevall is a wonderful writer and historian. In his newbook on the origins of the American war in Vietnam, he gives afascinating and dramatic account of the French war and itsaftermath, from the perspectives of the French, the Vietnamese,and the Americans. Using previously untapped sources and a deepknowledge of diplomatic history, Logevall shows to devastatingeffect how America found itself on the road to Vietnam.”

—Frances FitzGerald, author of Fire in the Lake, winner of thePulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

“Superb . . . penetrating . . . Embers of War is a product offormidable international research. It is lucidly andcomprehensively composed. And it leverages a consistentlypotent analytical perspective. . . . Outstanding.”

—Gordon Goldstein, TheWashington Post

emBers of Warthe fall of an empire and the making of america’s vietnamBy Fredrik Logevall





“Why are we in Vietnam?” The question resounded in dorm rooms and lecture halls and studentcenters on America’s college campuses in the late 1960s. It sparked heated debates at dinner tables in thenation’s homes. Norman Mailer made it the title of an iconic novel in 1967. And in a sense the questionnever went away, even as it was altered to the past tense after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in1973. It now became “Why were we in Vietnam?” and in short order it came dominate much of thewriting about the war by journalists, memoirists, and historians.

And no wonder it did so, given the war’s deep and continuing resonance in American politics andculture. The intervention in Vietnam has been called the defining experience of the second half of thetwentieth century for Americans, and it’s arguably the longest and bloodiest conflict in post-1945 worldaffairs, killing perhaps three million and more than 58,000 Americans. It also wreaked vast destructionon huge portions of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

The large and growing literature on the conflict contains a curious feature. In their rush to analyze“America’s war,” most authors have given remarkably short shrift to the French war that came before it.This is unfortunate, for close attention to that earlier history is imperative if we are to understand whythe United States ended up in this faraway place, 7,000 miles from the coast of California, a place manyAmericans did not know existed. It is imperative if we are comprehend why the United States, borne outof an anticolonial reaction against Britain, opted to back France in a colonial war against Ho Chi Minh’srevolutionary nationalist forces, and then, once that effort ended in defeat, chose to try to succeedwhere the French had failed. It turns out that the Second World War and the French Indochina War thatfollowed were absolutely crucial to all that would happen later in the Vietnam.

Nor is it merely as a prelude to America’s Vietnam debacle that the earlier period merits ourattention. Straddling as it did the twentieth century’s midpoint, the French Indochina War sat at theintersection of the grand political forces that drove world affairs during the century. Thus Indochina’sexperience between 1945 and 1954 is intimately bound up with the transformative effects of the SecondWorld War and the outbreak and escalation of the Cold War and, in particular, with the emergence ofthe United States as the predominant power in Asian and world affairs.

And thus the struggle is also part of the story of European colonialism and its encounter withanticolonial nationalists—who drew their inspiration in part from European and American ideas andpromises. In this way, the French Indochina War was simultaneously an East-West and North-Southconflict, pitting European imperialism in its twilight phase against the two main competitors thatgained momentum by mid century: Communist-inspired revolutionary nationalism and U.S.-backedliberal internationalism. If similar processes played out around much of the world after 1945, Vietnamdeserves special study because it was one of the first places where this destructive dynamic could beseen. It was also where the dynamic remained in place, decade after bloody decade.

Embers of War considers this fascinating and important history anew, using archival materials fromseveral countries and the full range of published sources. I worked on the book for ten years and havebeen honored and humbled by the discussions it has initiated and the feedback I’ve received: onereviewer named it the definitive history of the French war and the making of America’s struggle.

I invite you to read my book and to consider using it in your courses. I am confident it will get yourstudents thinking—and talking—in new, meaningful ways about this important and transformationaltime in their nation’s history.

Fredrik Logevall


About the Author: Jon MeachamJON MEACHAM received the Pulitzer Prize for American Lion, his bestselling 2008 biography of Andrew Jackson. He is alsothe author of the New York Times bestsellers Franklin and Winston and American Gospel. Executive editor and executive vicepresident of Random House, Meacham is a contributing editor to Timemagazine.

In this magnificent biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston,brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkabletimes. The Jefferson story resonates today not least because he ledhis nation through ferocious partisanship and cultural warfareamid economic change and external threats, and also because heembodies an eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of anation to achieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world.Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politicianand president, a great and complex human being forever engagedin the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver.Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, oftensimultaneously. Such is the art of power.“Fascinating and insightful. . . . Many books have been writtenabout Jefferson’s life, but few have created such a vivid portrait . . .Meacham immerses the reader in that period of history to explainJefferson’s behavior during an era when the nation was ascontradictory as he was . . . extraordinary . . . essential.”

—The Associated Press

“[Meacham] brings to bear his focused and sensitive scholarship,rich prose style. . . . The Jefferson that emerges from these astute,dramatic pages is a figure worthy of continued study andappreciation . . . [a] very impressive book.”

—Booklist (Starred Review)

thomas Jefferson: the art of PowerBy Jon Meacham




american lionandrew Jackson in theWhite houseWinner, 2009 Pulitzer Prize

“The most readable

single-volume biography

ever written of our seventh

president.”—Douglas Brinkley,TheWashington PostRandom House | TR978-0-8129-7346-4 | 512pp.$18.00/$22.00 Can.exam copy: $3.00

Audio: 978-0-7393-3458-4$39.95/$45.00 Can.

e-Book: 978-1-58836-822-5$13.99/$14.99 Can.

Website:www.Jonmeacham.com

For more books by Jon Meacham,go towww.randomhouse.com/academic

american GosPelGod, the founding fathers,and the making of a nationRandom House | TR978-0-8129-7666-3448pp. | $16.00/$19.95 Can.exam copy: $3.00

Audio: 978-0-7393-3438-6$16.48/$21.00 Can.

e-Book: 978-1-58836-577-4$11.99/$13.99 Can.

franklin andWinstonan intimate Portrait of anepic friendshipRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-7282-5512pp. | $16.95/$23.95 Can.exam copy: $3.00

Audio: 978-0-7393-0677-2$37.95/$46.00 Can.

e-Book: 978-1-58836-329-9$13.99/$18.99 Can.

Also by the Author:

Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

To his friends, who were numerous and devoted, Jefferson was among the greatest menwho had ever lived, a Renaissance figure who was formidable without seeming overbearing,sparkling without being showy, winning without appearing cloying.

Yet to his foes, who were numerous and prolific, Jefferson was an atheist and a fanatic, ademagogue and a dreamer, a womanly Francophile who could not be trusted with thegovernment of a great nation. His task was to change those views as best he could. He longedfor affection and for approval.

A master of emotional and political manipulation, sensitive to criticism, obsessed with hisreputation, and devoted to America, he was drawn to the world beyond Monticello, endlesslyat work, as he put it, “to see the standard of reason at length erected after so many ages duringwhich the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles.” As a planter,lawyer, legislator, governor, diplomat, secretary of state, vice president, and president, Jeffersonspent much of his life seeking control over himself and power over the lives and destinies ofothers. For Jefferson, politics was not a dispiriting distraction but an undertaking that madeeverything else possible.

Inspired by his own father’s example, he long sought to play the part of a patriarch,accepting—even embracing—the accompanying burdens of responsibility. He was the fatherof the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition,of the American West. He led the first democratic movement in the new republic to check thepower and influence of established forces. And perhaps most important, he gave the nation theidea of American progress—the animating spirit that the future could be better than thepresent or the past.

The greatest American politicians since have prospered by projecting a Jeffersonian visionthat the country’s finest hours lay ahead. The story of Jefferson’s life fascinates still in partbecause he found the means to endure and, in many cases, to prevail in the face of extremepartisanship, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Jefferson’s political leadership isinstructive, offering us the example of a president who can operate at two levels, cultivatingthe hope of a brighter future while preserving the political flexibility and skill to bring theideal as close as possible to reality.


Excerpted from Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham. Copyright © 2012 by Jon Meacham. Excerpted by permission of RandomHouse, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writingfrom the publisher.

About the Author: Loretta NapoleoniLORETTA NAPOLEONI is the author of the bestselling book Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality (a Publishers WeeklyBest Book of 2008) and Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism, both translated into fifteen languages.One of the world’s leading experts on money laundering and terror financing, Napoleoni has worked as a correspondentand columnist for La Stampa, La Repubblica, El País, and Le Monde, and she has presented on the economics of terrorism forGoogle UK and TEDTalks. She teaches economics at the Judge Business School in Cambridge.

In a style similar to many of today’s social media networks, thisbooklet will appeal to readers across generational lines,especially the millennial generation that came of age on or afterSeptember 11, 2001.The technological revolution, the wide use of the Internet, and theadvent of social media are just some of the innovations that grew todefine the past decade. September 11, 2001, is considered the mainevent, but the changes from 2001 to 2011 go far beyond the menaceof terrorism and the war on terror. The purpose of this book is toshow the true patterns of change—those innovations that willinfluence coming decades.This is more than a timeline; it is the tale of an extraordinarydecade. Within each year, Napoleoni presents events not in a strictchronology but more as we might remember them, often with themost significant events recalled first. Thus the main topics—politics, economics, people, technology, and the environment—cross over constantly, showing how they are all interlinked and howglobalization is speeding up the pace of change in our world.Written in tweet-like bursts of information, 10 Years takes thereader through the last decade at breakneck speed, teasing out thelinks between financial policy, terrorism, propaganda, and socialmedia over the course of the decade.

10 Years that shook the Worlda timeline of events from 2001By Loretta Napoleoni

Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-413-8 | 192pp.$12.95/$12.95 Can. | exam copy $3.00



Also by the Author:

maonomicsWhy chinese communists make Better capitalists thanWe doTranslated by Stephen Twilley

In this timely book, renowned economist and expert on international financeLoretta Napoleoni looks to a robust Chinese economy for answers about the futureof capitalism and democracy.Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-431-2384pp. | $18.95/$18.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-60980-352-0 | $26.95/$31.00 Can.

Website:lorettanapoleoni.net

Now inPaperback


10 Years that Shook the World was originally intended for young people, those who were

children or adolescents on September 11, 2001. My aim was to show how the decade that

began in 2001 has profoundly changed the world, setting in motion what Steve Jobs called the

“digital lifestyle.” Young people are growing up in such a fast-paced and media-savvy world,

and I want them to see that they are coming-of-age in a dramatically changing time. I want to

show them some of the challenges they face as the pace keeps increasing.

The attacks of September 11, 2001, are considered to have been the main event of the first

decade of the 21st century, but the changes of this decade actually go far beyond the menace of

terrorism and the War on Terror. The technological revolution triggered by Apple, the wide

use of the Internet, the advent of social media, and stem cell research are just some of the

innovations that have brought about a new Enlightenment.

This book is written in short bursts of information, similar to 140-character tweets. This is

the modern narrative, the one used by many young people, and it reflects the rapid pace of

change and communication in this modern world. More than a timeline, 10 Years that Shook

the World tells the tale of an extraordinary decade. Within each year, the book present events

not in a strict chronology but more as we might remember them, often with the most

significant events recalled first. The main topics—politics, economics, people, technology, and

the environment—cross over constantly, showing how they are all interlinked and how

globalization poses a phenomenal challenge to our world.

We cannot continue to live as we have done until today. The demographic explosion is

eroding the environment and putting pressure on natural resources. This first decade of the

new century was the decade in which these problems, and our responses to them, finally

began pushing us towards real political, economic, and environmental change. That change

will have to continue to come from young people and I know that they will be up for the

challenge.

Loretta Napoleoni


About the Author: Kim E. NielsenKIM E. NIELSEN is an award-winning educator, the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities We the Peoplestipend, a Fulbright lecturer, the author of many journal articles, and a frequent public speaker. The author of three books onHelen Keller, Nielsen also served as an advisory editor to the Encyclopedia of American Disability History. She lives in Green Bay,Wisconsin, where she is Professor of History & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the storyof whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story

of our nation. Covering the entirety of U.S. history from pre-1492to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the firstbook to place the experiences of people with disabilities at thecenter of the American narrative. In many ways, it’s a familiartelling. In other ways, however, it is a radical repositioning of U.S.history. By doing so, the book casts new light on familiar stories,such as slavery and immigration, while breaking ground about theties between nativism and oralism in the late nineteenth centuryand the role of ableism in the development of democracy.

Historian and disability scholar Kim E. Nielsen pulls from primary-source documents and social histories to retell American historythrough the eyes, words, and impressions of the people who lovedit. As she argues, to understand disability history isn’t to narrowlyfocus on a series of individual triumphs but rather to examine massmovements and pivotal daily events through the lens of variedexperiences. Throughout the book, Nielsen deftly illustrates howconcepts of disability have deeply shaped the Americanexperience—from deciding who was allowed to immigrate toestablishing labor laws and justifying slavery and genderdiscrimination. Included are absorbing—at times horrific—narratives of blinded slaves being thrown overboard and womenbeing involuntarily sterilized, as well as triumphant accounts ofdisabled miners organizing strikes and disability rights activistspicketing Washington.

Engrossing and profound, A Disability History of the United Statesfundamentally reinterprets how we view our nation’s past: from astifling master narrative to a shared history that encompasses us all.“A wonderful, beautifully written, remarkable achievement thatwill certainly become a classic within the field and should becomestandard reading.”

—Michael A. Rembis, Director, Center for Disability Studies,University at Buffalo

a disaBilitY historY of the united statesBy Kim E. Nielsen

Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-2202-3 | 272pp.$26.95/$32.00 Can. | exam copy $13.50




A Disability History of the United States has been both the hardest and most excitingintellectual project in which I’ve engaged. Disability history is labor history. It is genderhistory, immigration history, education, class and political history. It is central to theAmerican narrative but has thus far remained largely unacknowledged.

I fumbled my way into disability history by accident over a decade ago when I ran across apolitical speech of Helen Keller’s. Doing so transformed my basic understandings of U.S.history—making me a better teacher, scholar, and historian.

My hope for this book is that it will provide new directions from which to examine thedifficult questions about the American past. Which peoples and which bodies have beenconsidered fit and appropriate for public life and active citizenship? How have people withdisabilities forged their own lives, their own communities, and shaped the United States? Howhas disability affected law, policy, economics, play, national identity, and daily life? In whatways has disability woven together with race, class, gender, and sexuality to form and alternational power structures? The answers to these questions reveal a tremendous amount aboutus as a nation.

Disability matters in our national story because it forces consideration of the strengths,weaknesses, and contradictions of American ideals. Taking note of race, class, and gender,scholars have examined the historical expansion of democracy. It is time to do the same fordisability. Disability is not the story of someone else. It is our story, the story of someone welove, the story of who we are or may become, and it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Itis, quite simply, the American story in all of its complexities.

For me, this also is a personal project. A week or two after signing the contract for ADisability History of the United States, and after I’d been working in disability history for over adecade, my daughter suddenly became seriously ill. As a result she became a disabled youngwoman. This experience has affected the book in tangible and intangible ways. Mostimmediately, it delayed and prolonged the writing process—as all of you will understand!Intellectually and emotionally, it deepened the book and made it better. Most profoundly, Iexpect, it significantly but subtly altered the questions I ask.

This is a different book than the one I started, for I am a different person, and I live in adifferent family, than existed several years ago. The wonderful, delightful, confusing, andfrustrating paradox of disability, however, is that I am also the same person, and I live in thesame family that existed several years ago.

The same is true, I believe, when considering U.S. history through the experiences ofpeople with disabilities and when using disability as a tool of analysis. The history thatemerges will be deeply familiar but also inherently and markedly different from thatpreviously considered.

Kim E. Nielsen


About the Author: Sandra Day O’Connor

SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR was born in El Paso, Texas, and raised on the Lazy B ranch. She attended Stanford University,where she took Wallace Stegner’s writing course. She began her public service in Phoenix, and was Majority Leader of theArizona Senate before becoming a judge. She is the author of Lazy B, a memoir about growing up in the Southwest, andThe Majesty of the Law, a reflection on American law and life. President Reagan nominated her as Associate Justice of theSupreme Court of the United States, and she served from 1981 to 2006. She served as Chancellor of the College of William &Mary, and is on the board of trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

From Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to sit onthe United States Supreme Court, comes this fascinating work

about the evolution of the highest court in the land.

Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court shedslight on the centuries of change that transformed the SupremeCourt from its uncertain beginnings into the remarkable institutionthat endures today. With an insider’s unparalleled insight, JusticeO’Connor provides a rare glimpse into the Supreme Court’s innerworkings. Written in the wise, candid and assured voice of anatural-born storyteller, Out of Order is a rich offering of engagingstories from one of our country’s most important institutions, byone of our country’s most respected pioneers.

“In this delightful collection of tales, Sandra Day O’Connor

shows us the personal side of the Supreme Court while reminding

us of the critical role the Court plays. It’s a lovely book—and a

valuable treasure for all Americans.”

—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs

out of order: stories from the history of the supreme courtBy Sandra Day O’Connor

Do not order before 3/5/2013.Random House | HC | 978-0-8129-9392-9 | 256pp.$26.00/$31.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00



the maJestY of the laWreflections of a supreme court Justice

“Justice O’Connor’s book will intrigue and

enlighten many different readers. She discusses

multiple issues, including what it’s like to be on

the Supreme Court, how and by whom the

Court has been shaped, and the meaning of the

rule of law. Her reflections on women in the law,

and women in power, are especially thought-

provoking. No one is better qualified than she

to write about these issues, and she does so

with her customary wit and clarity.”

—Nan Keohane, president, Duke University

Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-6673-2 | 336pp.$16.00/$19.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00


Also by the Author:

lazY BGrowing up on acattle ranch in theamerican southwestBy Sandra Day O’Connorand H. Alan Day

“A loving but clear-

eyed portrait of a

distinctive and

vanished American way

of life.”—The New YorkTimes Book Review



Excerpt fromOut of Order

I had the privilege of serving on the Supreme Court from 1981 until 2006, as it confrontedissues running the gamut from states’ rights and race-based affirmative action to a defendant’sright to effective assistance of counsel. My colleagues and I always strove to reach the rightanswers, and I hope that we did. We were able to resolve tough questions in an atmosphereinsulated as far as possible from political pressures. . . .

The many Justices who have come and gone have made contributions—dramatic andsubtle, renowned and lesser known—to not only the law, but the institution and its internaloperations.

In this book, I hope to shed light on some of those transformations. This book offerssnapshots of the people and events that reflect the Court’s evolution and journey. . . .

The Court’s dramatic evolution over time is humbling to review. In my nearly twenty-fiveyears on the Supreme Court, I was always cognizant of how my tenure, lengthy as it was, wasbut one small part of a rich and unfolding tapestry. Each Justice plays merely a supporting rolein the Court’s ongoing narrative, and each Justice’s experience is but a snapshot in time. I amreminded of this each time I walk through the Court and admire the succession of portraits—some famous, some less known—gracing its hallways. The Court as it exists today reflects thecontributions of those who devoted their lives to it.

When I retired from the Court, I found myself increasingly being asked by people acrossthe country and across the world for my “insider” perspective on the Court and its goings-on.Very often, the inquirer would have recently seen a newspaper editorial about a controversialcase or read some supposed “tell-all” book on the Court. I would always answer that my yearsof service were a privilege, that I had great affection for my colleagues, and that the Justicesstrive to reach the right result in each case. I came to realize that what I wished to conveyabove all was my understanding of how the Court evolved, and how it represents so muchmore than what the day’s headlines can capture. It embodies the bold vision of the Framers ofour Constitution, a triumph of the rule of law, and the culmination of the hard work, risks,and sacrifices of many people.

I wanted to write about aspects of the Court’s rich heritage that interested and inspiredme. Hence this book. Only when we reflect on the Court’s journey as a whole can we trulyappreciate the remarkable feat of our Founding Fathers and the remarkable accomplishmentsof our thriving federal judiciary.


Excerpted from Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court by Sandra Day O’Connor. Copyright © 2013 by Sandra Day O’Connor.Excerpted by permission of Random House, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced orreprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

About the Author: Tom ReissTOM REISS is the author of the celebrated international bestseller The Orientalist. His biographical pieces have appeared TheNew Yorker, The New York Times, and other publications.

The real-life protagonist of The Black Count, General AlexDumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that

is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist AlexandreDumas, used it to create some of the best loved heroes of literature.

Yet, hidden behind these swashbuckling adventures was an evenmore incredible secret: the real hero was the son of a black slave—who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race wouldbefore our own time.

Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas was briefly soldinto bondage but made his way to Paris where he was schooled as asword-fighting member of the French aristocracy. Enlisting as aprivate, he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution,in an audacious campaign across Europe and the Middle East—until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat.

The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting narrative history, alushly textured evocation of eighteenth-century France, and awindow into the modern world’s first multiracial society.

“Fascinating . . . a richly imaginative biography.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Tom Reiss has literally drilled into locked safes to create thismasterpiece. . . . His portrait of a man who was arguably ourmodern age’s greatest unknown soldier is remarkable.”

—James Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of

Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys

“A masterful biography, richly detailed, highly researched, andcompletely absorbing. The Black Count is a triumph.”

—Amanda Foreman, New York Times bestselling author of

AWorld on Fire and Georgiana

the Black countGlory, revolution, Betrayal, and the real count of monte cristoBy Tom Reiss

Crown | HC | 978-0-307-38246-7 | 432pp.$27.00/$29.95 Can. | exam copy: $13.50



Also by the Author:

Website:www.tomreiss.com

the orientalistsolving the mystery of a strange anddangerous lifeRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-7276-4 | 496pp.$17.00/$21.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-444-9 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.


I’ve always loved exploring history. It’s like an uncharted hemisphere, and when you look at itclosely, it has a tendency to change everything about your own time. I’m also drawn to outsiders, peoplewho have swum against the tide. I often feel like a kind of detective hired to go find people who havebeen lost to history, and discover why they were lost. Whodunnit?

In this case, I found solid evidence that, of all people, Napoleon did it: he buried the memory ofthis great man—Gen. Alexandre Dumas, the son of a black slave who led more than 50,000 men at theheight of the French Revolution and then stood up to the megalomaniacal Corsican in the deserts ofEgypt. (The “famous” Alexandre Dumas is the general’s son—the author of The Three Musketeers.)Letters and eyewitness accounts show that Napoleon came to hate Dumas not only for his stubborndefense of principle but also for his swagger and stature—over six feet tall and handsome as a matineeidol—and for the fact that he was a black man idolized by the white French army. (I found thatNapoleon’s destruction of Dumas coincided with his destruction of one of the greatest accomplishmentsof the French Revolution—racial equality—a legacy he also did his best to bury.)

I first came across Gen. Dumas’s life in the memoir of his son Alexandre, the novelist. And what alife! Alex Dumas, as he preferred to be known, was born in Saint Domingue, later Haiti, the son of ablack slave and a good-for-nothing French aristocrat who came to the islands to make a quick killingand instead barely survived. In fact, to get back to France in order to claim an inheritance, he actually“pawned” his black son into slavery, but then he bought him out, brought him to Paris, and enrolledhim in the royal fencing academy, and then the story begins to get interesting.

What really stuck with me from reading the memoir was the love that shows through from the son,the writer, for his father, the soldier. I could never forget the novelist describing the day his father died.His mother met him on the stairs in their house, lugging his father’s gun over his shoulders, and askedhim what he was doing. Little Alexandre replied: “I’m going to heaven to kill God—for killing daddy.”When he grew up, he took a greater sort of revenge, infusing his father’s life and spirit into fictionalcharacters like Edmond Dantes and D’Artagnan, with shades of Porthos, too. But the image of the angrychild stuck with me and drove me onward to discover every scrap of evidence I could about hisforgotten father.

And recovering the life of the real man behind these stories was the ultimate historical prospectingjourney for me: I learned about Maltese knights and Mameluke warriors, the tricks of eighteenth-century spycraft and glacier warfare, torchlight duels in the trenches and portable guillotines on thefront; I got to know about how Commedia del Arte influenced Voodoo and how a Jacobin sultaninfluenced the “Star-Spangled Banner,” about chocolate cures for poisoning and the still brisk trade inNapoleonic hair clippings. I discovered the amazing forgotten civil rights movement of the eighteenthcentury—and its unraveling—though the most amazing thing about this story of a black man in a whiteworld was how little race stood in his way: how Alex Dumas’s future father-in-law never oncequestioned his daughter marrying a man of color but only asked that he get promoted to sergeant first(later he lovingly referred to his son-in-law simply as “the General”).

Finally, the memoir set me not only on a historical adventure but on an adventure in the presentday that was straight out of a Dumas novel. I began by visiting the gray town in northeast France wherethe general died—where I found a dead museum secretary, a locked safe, and a host of unlikely,inspiring characters to make my journey a far from lonely one.

Tom Reiss


About the Author: Lawrence Scott SheetsLAWRENCE SCOTT SHEETS reported for National Public Radio for seven years and was NPR’s Moscow bureau chief from2001–2005, covering the entire former USSR. He was Caucasus region bureau chief for Reuters from 1992–2000 and a KnightJournalism Fellow at Stanford University from 2000-2001. He also worked for NBC News in Moscow during 1992 and his workhas been published in the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, and heard on the BBC World Service, Public RadioInternational, and other news outlets. Sheets is currently South Caucasus Project Director of the International Crisis Group,focusing on Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.

Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address onChristmas Day, 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its

end. But in the wake of that one deceptively calm moment, conflictand violence soon followed. Some of the emergent new countriesbegan to shed totalitarianism while others sought to revive theirown dead empires or were led by ex-Soviet leaders who builtequally or even more repressive political machines. Since the late1980s, Sheets lived and reported from the former USSR and sawfirsthand the reverberations of the empire’s collapse. Eight Pieces ofEmpire draws readers into the people, politics, and day-to-day life,painting a vivid portrait of a tumultuous time. Sheets’ stories aboutpeople living through these tectonic shifts of fortune—a trio offemale saboteurs in Chechnya, the chaos of newly independentGeorgia in the early 1990s, young hustlers eager to strike it rich inthe post-Soviet economic vacuum—reveal the underreported andsurprising ways in which the ghosts of empire still haunt theselands and the world.“His book is an invaluable eyewitness account of the traumas ofthe Soviet collapse told through the lives of those who were caughtup in it and often buried under it. The book is written with adisarming honesty, sympathy and humility.” —The Economist

“A smoothly written and sensitively drawn personal portrait of thepeople and places Lawrence Sheets meets during the roilingcollapse of the Soviet Union, and the furtive, now two-decade-longstruggle of the resulting fifteen states to construct something new.I have the feeling that people will be reading his account for a longtime to come.”

—Steve LeVine, contributing editor at Foreign Policy and adjunctprofessor, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University

“In an era when the media establishment supports foreignreporting less and less, Lawrence Sheets has lived a life of utterseriousness as a foreign correspondent: concentrating on onebroad area—the former Soviet Union—in order to develop subjectexpertise, and then dedicating himself to indefatigablegroundlevel coverage of that area. Forget the pundits and thescandalmongers, this is a real journalist.”

—Robert D. Kaplan, author ofMonsoon: The Indian Ocean and theFuture of American Power

eiGht Pieces of emPirea 20-Year Journey through the soviet collapseBy Lawrence Scott Sheets

Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-39583-2 | 336pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00




Why IWrote Eight Pieces of Empire

I wrote this book to take you on a very special trip. On this trip, I want you to experiencethe spectacular and unexpected collapse of an empire. This trip took me twenty years tocomplete, virtually my entire adult life. It will take you only as long as it takes read this book.Your journey begins in the late 1980s, in Leningrad. The USSR, the giant monolith weAmericans thought of as eternal and unchanging, is falling apart. You will live in a crumblingbut lively communal apartment. Men from the KGB, mistaking you for a CIA spy, will try torecruit you as a double agent. You will watch a friend’s slide into the dark world of the growingRussian “mafia.” You will meet future billionaires—before they ever had a penny. You will walkthrough a snow-covered Red Square on Christmas night, 1991, just hours after MikhailGorbachev declares the empire dead and the Hammer and Sickle is lowered from atop theKremlin.

You will travel to the land of Joseph Stalin, the beautiful, chaotic, newly independentRepublic of Georgia. You will meet big-canvass artists-turned-paramilitary gurus, you willride in cars with no license plates, attend wine-soaked ritual feasts that last for over twelvehours. Amidst the upheaval, there is even a sexual revolution. Women are challenging thestrict notions of Oriental chastity for the first time. You will experience the sorrows andtragedy of senseless ethnic conflict.

Your trip, often lonely, continues onto other little-known parts of the empire. Azerbaijan,in the days before an oil boom transforms the country, is in the midst of a comic-opera civilwar, and with Armenia, where some dream of restoring an ancient empire of their own,compensation for a tragic history. In Chechnya, you will drink tea with the now-dead terroristShamyl Basayev, watch a city be razed to the ground by carpet bombing, and break bread withfreethinking members of a women’s sabotage brigade who managed to survive it.

You will meet the former head of Russia’s ex-KGB, who claims to have found God after acareer as an enforcer of official atheism for years. You will even go to Afghanistan at the heightof war, post-9/11, which the Soviet Empire—like every other empire—failed to tame. You willmeet reindeer herders who speak an almost extinct language in Siberia. You will go to theeerily deserted area around the crippled Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone in Ukraine, where afew irrepressible residents are determined to stay and live, rather than leaving their homes.

At the end of your trip, you will have experienced all of the breathtaking, inspiring, andsometimes heartbreaking events that accompany the decline of an empire, in this case theSoviet Union. You will see how the monolithic, the permanent, the seemingly unchanging andpredictable can suddenly reveal fragility and ephemerality.

Lawrence Scott Sheets


About the Author:Marci ShoreMARCI SHORE, an associate professor of intellectual history at Yale, has spent much of her adult life in central and EasternEurope. She is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968, which won eightprizes, including a National Jewish Book Award. She is also the translator of Michal Glowinski’s Holocaust memoir The BlackSeasons.

In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s The File, Yale historianand prizewinning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate

understanding to illuminate the afterlife of totalitarianism. TheTaste of Ashes spans from Berlin to Moscow, moving from Viennain Europe’s west through Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Bucharestto Vilnius and Kiev in the post-communist east. The result is ashimmering literary examination of the ghost of communism—nolonger Marx’s “specter to come” but a haunting presence of the past.

Shore builds her history around people she came to know over thecourse of the two decades since communism came to an end inEastern Europe: her colleagues and friends, once-communists andonce-dissidents, the accusers and the accused, the interrogators andthe interrogated, Zionists, Bundists, Stalinists, and their childrenand grandchildren. For them, the post-communist moment has notclosed but rather has summoned up the past: revolution in 1968,Stalinism, the Second World War, the Holocaust. The end ofcommunism had a dark side. As Shore pulls the reader into herjourney of discovery, reading the archival records of people who arethemselves confronting the traumas of former lives, she reveals theintertwining of the personal and the political, of love and cruelty, ofintimacy and betrayal. The result is a lyrical, touching, andsometimes heartbreaking, portrayal of how history moves and whathistory means.“Marci Shore has written a one-of-a-kind book—a personal,intellectual, literary and historical tour of contemporary centralEurope—with something in it for anyone who wants to understandthis fascinating part of the world.”

—Anne Applebaum, author of Iron Curtain and Gulag

“With deep respect for what the historian can and cannot knowand what the witness can and cannot share, Marci Shore hasachieved something rare: a narrative history that is also aphilosophy of history. Her subject is Eastern Europe in theaftermath of the Holocaust and Stalinism, but her stories of peopleand places—tragic, ironic, carnavalesque—have a universalappeal.” —Alice Kaplan, author of Dreaming in French

the taste of ashesthe afterlife of totalitarianism in eastern europeBy Marci Shore

Crown | HC | 978-0-307-88881-5 | 384pp.$27.00/$32.00 Can. | exam copy $13.50




I was at an impressionable age when the revolutions came. This is the short answer I often givewhen asked by Poles or Czechs or Russians why I became interested in their part of the world. In 1989, Iwas seventeen years old and knew nothing about Eastern Europe. Yet growing up in suburbanPennsylvania, it was impossible not to absorb that we were locked in a struggle with the Evil Empirethat might well bring about the end of the world.

And then one day it was over. Soon pieces of the Berlin Wall were for sale at the local mall. For me,the drama of 1989 was the opening of a part of the world that had been seemingly closed forever. I wasseduced by this sudden opening, personified in the fairy tale of the Velvet Revolution inCzechoslovakia, of the imprisoned playwright who became a philosopher-president.

I wanted to go to that place where magical things happen. I wanted to go where there was a happyending. Yet fairy tales inevitably have their darker sides. When I came to live in post-communistEastern Europe, I saw that not everyone was living happily ever after. And this was so not only becauseprices were rising drastically while wages and pensions remained very low. There was much more thatwas tormenting.

For Freud, the unconscious was like a dark psychic closet in which everything too disturbing forour conscious minds was hidden. Freud had no illusions that opening that dark psychic closet would bepleasant. For decades, the communist archives had played the role of the Freudian unconscious.

“A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of communism,” Karl Marx began The CommunistManifesto. Marx, the militant materialist, opened his most famous text by confessing to his ownmetaphysical moment. Now, in Eastern Europe in the 1990s, I came to understand that communism,once a “specter to come,” was far more haunting as a specter from the past.

In researching my dissertation about Polish avant-garde poets who became communists (the shortversion of their story is that it ended very, very badly for all of them), I spent all told several years informer communist Europe. I dug through seventeen archives in five countries. I encountered thefriends and enemies—at times the children and grandchildren—of my protagonists. And I begankeeping a journal with notes on all of the stories that were too personal to go into a strictly scholarlybook.

The book that grew from those notes is about the darker side of the fall of communism. It is a bookabout what we, who did not live there, did not understand. It is a book attesting to Hegel’s insistencethat actions inevitably have consequences that exceed their intentions. The post-communist momenthas illuminated painfully the omnipresence of guilt: after 1989, people had to account for choices theymade, often in extreme moments, in a world in which all the rules had suddenly changed.

This is also a book about what it means to study history. To go into the archives in search of truth isto read letters never meant for you to read. Understanding the past demands an empathy that can neverbe innocent. In this book I try to make the reader feel the ethical dilemmas of the historical process: therisk of moral relativism that comes with the striving for empathy, and the voyeurism of reading pages inthe lives of others.

Marci Shore


About the Author:Hedrick SmithHEDRICK SMITH is a bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, and Emmy Award–winning producer. His booksThe Russians and The Power Game were critically acclaimed bestsellers and are widely used in college courses today. As areporter at The New York Times, Smith shared a Pulitzer for the Pentagon Papers series and won a Pulitzer for his internationalreporting from Russia in 1971–1974. Smith’s prime-time specials for PBS have won several awards for examining systemicproblems in modern America and offering insightful, prescriptive solutions.

Who stole the american dream?By Hedrick Smith




W ho Stole the American Dream? is a book of revelations: theaccidental beginnings of the 401(k) plan, with disastrous

economic consequences for many; the major policy changes thatbegan under Jimmy Carter; how the New Economy disruptedAmerica’s engine of shared prosperity, the “virtuous circle” ofgrowth; and how America lost the title of “Land of Opportunity.”Veteran reporter Hedrick Smith documents the transfer of $6trillion in middle-class wealth from homeowners to banks evenbefore the housing boom went bust, and how the U.S. policy tiltfavoring the rich is stunting America’s economic growth.This book provides the necessary historic context for those whowant to understand the origins of the current crisis facing middle-class Americans.Who Stole the American Dream? is a work ofhistory and reportage filled with the penetrating insights,provocative discoveries, and the great empathy of a masterjournalist. Finally, Smith offers ideas for restoring America’s greatpromise and reclaiming the American Dream.“Hedrick Smith has done it again!Who Stole the American Dream?provides a readable and comprehensive account of how Americanshave been robbed of our dream of a broad middle class over thepast forty years. It is essential reading.”

—JayW. Lorsch, the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations,Harvard Business School

“Smith enlivens his narrative with portraits of the people caughtup in events, humanizing complex subjects often rendered sterilein economic analysis . . . the human face of the story is inseparablefrom the history. —Reuters

“Remarkably comprehensive and coherent analysis of andprescriptions for America’s contemporary economic malaise byPulitzer Prize–winning journalist Smith . . . Smith sets out on amission to trace the history of these strategies and policies, whichtransformed America from a roughly fair society to its currentstatus as a plutocracy. He leaves few stones unturned . . .fascinating detail . . . brilliant analyses.”

—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Hedrick Smith is a clear thinker and a great writer who has done aterrific job chronicling the increasing disarray in the once powerfulsocial compact between America’s middle class and our businessand political leadership. Smith also presents an American“Marshall Plan”which is a solid road map for recovery from theresults of failed business, media, and political leadership of the lastthirty years.”

—Howard Dean, former Governor of Vermont, former DNC Chairman


For years, hundreds of colleges, university, and high school courses have used my books, TheRussians and The Power Game: How Washington Works, in their courses. Professors and teachers havetrusted the quality of my reporting, research, and writing. Students have found my work readable andintellectually engaging.

My new book,Who Stole the American Dream?, is especially well suited for university courses andseminars and high school classrooms. It combines on-the-spot reporting and storytelling withacademic-level research (more than 1,000 footnotes), making it both authoritative and highly readable.My thematic treatment of American political and economic history from the 1970s to the present wouldwork well in interdisciplinary seminars as well as courses in government, economics, political science,public policy, journalism, and modern American history.

In The Russians, I took a generation of students inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, I tooka second generation inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now, I am taking a third generation acrossAmerica to show how seismic changes, sparked by landmark political and economic decisions, havetransformed America over the past four decades. Drawing on fifty years of experience, I have piecedtogether a revealing and fascinating narrative, starting with Lewis Powell’s provocative 1971 memo thattriggered a political rebellion, which permanently altered the landscape of power in Washington.

As The New York Review of Books observed, my book provides an important alternative to theconventional, market-based explanation of America’s transformation from the middle-class power andprosperity and political bipartisanship of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, to the gridlocked politics, starklyunequal democracy, and gaping economic inequalities of today.

“Hedrick Smith has done it again,” says Harvard Business School Professor Jay Lorsch. “Who Stolethe American Dream? provides a readable and comprehensive account of how Americans have beenrobbed of our dream of a broad middle class over the past forty years. . . . It is essential reading.”Essential for students seeking to understand the evolution of contemporary America.

Among other things, my book documents the accidental beginnings of the 401(k) plan, withdisastrous economic consequences for millions of Americans; the major policy changes that beganunder Jimmy Carter (before Ronald Reagan); how the New Economy disrupted America’s engine ofshared prosperity, the “virtuous circle” of growth; and how America lost the title of “Land ofOpportunity.” I describe the transfer of $6 trillion in middle-class wealth from homeowners to banksbefore the housing boom went bust, and how the U.S. policy tilt favoring the rich is stunting America’seconomic growth. I show how pivotal policies were altered while the public wasn’t looking, howCongress has often ignored public opinion, how America has lost the vital moderate center in politics,and howWall Street has forged a symbiotic connection with Washington.

In lectures, my goal is to connect with college students. On two- or three-day campus residencies, Ihave enjoyed meeting with classes and student groups, leading discussions, enjoying give-and-take,sharing my reporting and life experience, even answering questions about career advice. These visitsconstitute my most rewarding experiences touring for the book. I look forward to the opportunity tovisit your campus, and to connect with your students.

Hedrick Smith



ANCIENT HISTORY

the hellenistic aGea short historyBy Peter GreenModern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-6740-1 | 240pp.$15.00/$18.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-706-8 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.

a War like no otherhow the athenians and spartans fought thePeloponnesianWarBy Victor HansonRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-6970-2 | 416pp.$17.00/$21.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-490-6 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.

the first clashthe miraculous Greek victory at marathonand its impact onWestern civilizationBy Jim LaceyBantam | HC | 978-0-553-80734-9 | 272pp.$26.00/$30.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00

Do not order paperback before 4/9/2013.Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-38575-5 | 272pp.$17.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-553-90812-1 | $13.99/$15.99 Can.

the roman armYthe GreatestWar machine of the ancientWorldBy Chris McNabOsprey | TR | 978-1-84908-813-8 | 280pp.$18.95/$22.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

PrehistorYthe making of the humanmindBy Colin RenfrewModern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7661-8 | 240pp.$15.00/$17.50 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-808-9 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.

ancient monuments of themississiPPi valleYBy Ephraim SquierSmithsonian Books | TR | 978-1-56098-898-4 | 528pp.$39.95/$47.00 Can. | exam copy: $20.00

the rise and fall of ancient eGYPtBy TobyWilkinsonRandom House | TR | 978-0-553-38490-1 | 656pp.$20.00/$24.00 Can. | exam copy: $10.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60429-7 | $18.99/$21.99 Can.

U.S. HISTORY

american rosea nation laid Bare: the life and times of Gypsy rose leeBy Karen AbbottRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-7851-3 | 448pp.$17.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00


u.s. constitution for BeGinnersBy Steve BachmannIllustrated by Jorge Diaz

For Beginners | TR | 978-1-934389-62-1 | 192pp.$16.99/$18.99 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-934389-66-9 | $16.99/$18.99 Can.

Glockthe rise of america’s GunBy Paul M. BarrettBroadway | TR | 978-0-307-71995-9 | 320pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

Audio: 978-0-449-00989-5 | $20.00/$24.00 Can.

mr. hornadaY’s Warhow a Peculiar victorian zookeeperWaged a lonelycrusade forWildlife that changed theWorldBy Stefan BechtelBeacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-0635-1 | 272pp.$26.95/$32.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.50

e-Book: 978-0-8070-0636-8 | $27.95/$33.00 Can.

PoWer in Wordsthe stories Behind Barack obama’s speeches, from thestate house to theWhite houseBy Mary Frances Berry and Josh GottheimerForeword by Theodore C. Sorensen

Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0169-1 | 304pp.$18.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-0109-7 | $24.95/$27.95 Can.


a Place of rememBranceofficial Book of the national september 11 memorialBy Allison Blais and Lynn RasicForeword by Michael R. Bloomberg

National Geographic | TR | 978-1-4262-0807-2 | 224pp.$19.95/$22.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

me the PeoPle: one man’s selfless Quest torewrite the constitution of the united states of americaBy Kevin BleyerRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6935-4 | 352pp.$26.00/$31.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00


the floor of heavena true tale of the last frontier and the Yukon Gold rushBy Howard BlumBroadway | TR | 978-0-307-46173-5 | 432pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00


thomas Jefferson travelsselectedWritings, 1784–1789Edited by Anthony BrandtNational Geographic | TR | 978-1-4262-0058-8 | 416pp.$15.95/$19.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-4262-0177-6 | $15.95/$19.95 Can.

Gilded lives, fatal voYaGethe Titanic’s first-class Passengers and theirWorldBy Hugh BrewsterCrown | HC | 978-0-307-98470-8 | 352pp.$26.00/$31.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00

Do not order paperback before 3/26/2013.Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-98481-4 | 452pp.$15.00/NCR | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-98471-5 | $13.99/NCR

the time of our livesa conversation about americaBy Tom BrokawRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-7512-3 | 320pp.$17.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-64392-0 | $12.99/$13.99 Can.

madison and JeffersonBy Andrew Burstein and Nancy IsenbergDo not order before 1/29/2013.Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7900-8 | 848pp.$20.00/$24.00 Can. | exam copy: $10.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60410-5 | $20.99/$21.99 Can.

Grant: a novelBy Max ByrdBantam | TR | 978-0-553-38018-7 | 368pp.$13.95/$21.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

Jackson: a novelBy Max ByrdBantam | TR | 978-0-553-37935-8 | 448pp.$14.95/$22.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-345-54428-5 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.

Jefferson: a novelBy Max ByrdBantam | TR | 978-0-553-37937-2 | 432pp.$23.00/$34.00 Can. | exam copy: $11.50

e-Book: 978-0-345-54426-1 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.

the lonG Walk to freedomrunaway slave narrativesEdited by DevonW. Carbado and Donald WeiseBeacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-6912-7 | 288pp.$28.95/$34.00 Can. | exam copy: $14.50

e-Book: 978-0-8070-6913-4 | $28.95/$34.00 Can.

neW York diaries: 1609 to 2009Edited by Teresa CarpenterModern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7425-6 | 512pp.$15.00/$18.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

here is Wherediscovering america’s Great forgotten historyBy Andrew CarrollDo not order before 5/14/2013.Crown Archetype | HC | 978-0-307-46397-5 | 480pp.$25.00/$29.95 Can. | exam copy: $12.50


9-11: Was there an alternative?By Noam ChomskySeven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-343-8 | 176pp.$13.95/$15.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-60980-154-0 | $11.95/$12.95 Can.

unions for BeGinnersBy David CogswellFor Beginners | TR | 978-1-934389-77-5 | 176pp.$16.99/$19.99 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-934389-78-2 | $16.99/$19.99 Can.

the scoutsBy Susan CohenShire | TR | 978-0-7478-1151-0 | 64pp.$12.95/$14.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-7478-1259-3 | $7.95/$7.95 Can.

ten tea PartiesPatriotic Protests that history forgotBy Joseph CumminsQuirk Books | HC | 978-1-59474-560-7 | 224pp.$18.95/$21.50 Can. | exam copy: $9.50

e-Book: 978-1-59474-562-1 | $18.95/$21.50 Can.


noBodY turn me arounda People’s history of the 1963march onWashingtonBy Charles EuchnerBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0155-4 | 248pp.$17.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-9552-2 | $23.95/$26.95 Can.

While america sleePsaWake-up call for the Post-9/11 eraBy Russ FeingoldCrown | HC | 978-0-307-95252-3 | 320pp.$26.00/$31.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00

Do not order paperback before 3/12/2013.Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-95253-0 | 320pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-95254-7 | $13.99/$16.99 Can.

aPPetite for americafred harvey and the Business of civilizing theWildWest—onemeal at a timeBy Stephen FriedBantam | TR | 978-0-553-38348-5 | 544pp.$18.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-553-90732-2 | $12.99/$13.99 Can.

divided We failthe story of an african american community that endedthe era of school desegregationBy Sarah GarlandDo not order before 1/29/2013.Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-0177-6 | 256pp.$26.95/$32.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.50

e-Book: 978-0-8070-0178-3 | $26.95/$31.00 Can.

caPital vieWs: historic Photographs ofWashington, d.c., alexandria and loudon county,virginia, and frederick county, marylandBy James M. GoodeSmithsonian Books | HC | 978-1-58834-331-4 | 192pp.$39.95/$47.00 Can. | exam copy: $20.00

eiGhtY daYs: nellie Bly and elizabeth Bisland’shistory-making race around theWorldBy Matthew GoodmanDo not order before 2/26/2013.Ballantine Books | HC | 978-0-345-52726-4 | 480pp.$28.00/$32.00 Can. | exam copy: $14.00


the death of american virtueclinton vs. starrBy Ken GormleyBroadway | TR | 978-0-307-40945-4 | 800pp.$18.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-45978-7 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.

Black firethe true story of the original tom sawyer—and of the mysterious fires that BaptizedGold rush–era san franciscoBy Robert GraysmithCrown | HC | 978-0-307-72056-6 | 288pp.$26.00/$31.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-72058-0 | $12.99/$14.99 Can.

henrY claY: the essential americanBy David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. HeidlerRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-7895-7 | 624pp.$18.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-995-6 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.

unBrokenaWorldWar ii story of survival, resilience,and redemptionBy Laura HillenbrandFinalist, 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction



let the students sPeak!a history of the fight for free expressionin american schoolsBy David L. HudsonBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-4454-4 | 208pp.$17.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-4458-2 | $17.00/$19.00 Can.

full BodY BurdenGrowing up in the nuclear shadow of rocky flatsBy Kristen IversenCrown | HC | 978-0-307-95563-0 | 416pp.$25.00/$29.95 Can. | exam copy: $12.50



“all laBor has diGnitY”Edited by Michael K. Honey


e-Book: 978-0-8070-8601-8 | $26.95/$31.00 Can.

“in a sinGle Garmentof destinY”a Global vision of JusticeEdited by Lewis V. BaldwinForeword by Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-8605-6 | 272pp.$26.95/$32.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.50

e-Book: 978-0-8070-8606-3 | $26.95/$32.00 Can.

stride toWard freedomthe montgomery storyIntroduction by Clayborne Carson


e-Book: 978-0-8070-0070-0 | $14.00/$14.00 Can.

the trumPet of conscienceBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0170-7 | 96pp.$12.00/$13.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-0072-4 | $22.00/$25.00 Can.

WhY We can’t WaitBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0112-7 | 256pp.$14.00/$16.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-0113-4 | $14.00/$16.00 Can.

siGninG their riGhts aWaYBy Denise Kiernan and Joseph D’AgneseQuirk Books | HC | 978-1-59474-520-1 | 256pp.$19.95/$22.95 Can. | exam copy: $10.00

e-Book: 978-1-59474-531-7 | $19.95/$22.95 Can.

historic route 66By David KnudsonShire | TR | 978-0-7478-1132-9 | 56pp.$9.95/$11.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

notes from the cracked ceilinGWhat itWill take for aWoman toWinBy Anne E. KornblutBroadway | TR | 978-0-307-46426-2 | 304pp.$14.00/$16.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-46427-9 | $9.99/$11.99 Can.

citY of scoundrelsthe 12 days of disaster that Gave Birth to modern chicagoBy Gary KristCrown | HC | 978-0-307-45429-4 | 368pp.$26.00/$31.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00


southern PlantationsBy Robin LattimoreShire | TR | 978-0-7478-1102-2 | 64pp.$9.95/$11.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

reveille in WashinGton: 1860–1865By Margaret LeechIntroduction by James McPherson

NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-59017-446-3 | 624pp.$19.95/$22.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-59017-467-8 | $19.95/$19.95 Can.

tension citY: inside the Presidential debatesBy Jim LehrerRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-8143-8 | 240pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60351-1 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.

the outraGeous Barriers to democracYin americaor,Why a Progressive Presidency is impossibleBy John R. MacArthurMelville House | TR | 978-1-61219-137-9 | 320pp.$16.95/$16.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-61219-138-6 | $16.95/$16.95 Can.

When the World callsthe inside story of the Peace corps and itsfirst fifty YearsBy Stanley MeislerBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-5051-4 | 288pp.$19.00/$22.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-9547-8 | $26.95/$31.00 Can.

Banned in BostontheWatch andWard society’s crusade against Books,Burlesque, and the social evilBy Neil MillerBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-5111-5 | 224pp.$16.00/$18.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-5113-9 | $26.95/$31.00 Can.

the President and the assassinmckinley, terror, and empire at the dawn of theamerican centuryBy Scott MillerRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6752-7 | 432pp.$28.00/$33.00 Can. | exam copy: $14.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60498-3 | $14.99/$16.99 Can.

a new partnership between Beacon Press and theestate of dr. martin luther king, Jr.

“Broadens our perception of King’s vision of social justice.”—Booklist


colonel rooseveltBy EdmundMorrisRandom House | TR | 978-0-375-75707-5 | 784pp.$18.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

Audio: 978-0-307-75040-2 | $50.00/$59.00 Can.e-Book: 978-0-679-60415-0 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.for more titles by edmundmorris, go to: http://tinyurl.com/bqaj6rq

cominG aPartthe state ofWhite america, 1960–2010By Charles MurrayDo not order before 1/29/2013.Crown Forum | TR | 978-0-307-45343-3 | 416pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-45344-0 | $12.99/$16.99 Can.

letters from Black americaintimate Portraits of the african american experienceEdited by Pamela NewkirkBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0115-8 | 400pp.$18.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

roGues and redeemersWhen Politics Was king in irish BostonBy Gerard O’NeillCrown | HC | 978-0-307-40536-4 | 416pp.$26.00/$31.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-95279-0 | $13.99/$16.99 Can.

killinG the messenGera story of radical faith, racism’s Backlash, and theassassination of a JournalistBy Thomas PeeleCrown | HC | 978-0-307-71755-9 | 464pp.$26.00/$31.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-71757-3 | $13.99/$16.99 Can.

a citY so Grandthe rise of an american metropolis, Boston 1850–1900By Stephen PuleoBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0149-3 | 312pp.$16.00/$18.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-5045-3 | $26.95/$32.00 Can.

raceBall: how the major leagues colonizedthe Black and latin GameBy Rob RuckBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-4807-8 | 288pp.$18.00/$21.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-4806-1 | $25.95/$29.00 Can.

the stammerinG centurYBy Gilbert Seldes; Introduction by Greil MarcusNYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-59017-580-4 | 464pp.$18.95/$22.50 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-59017-595-8 | $18.95/$18.95 Can.

eisenhoWer in War and PeaceBy Jean Edward SmithRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6693-3 | 976pp.$40.00/$46.00 Can. | exam copy: $20.00

Do not order paperback before 6/18/2013.Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8288-6 | 976pp.$20.00/$24.00 Can. | exam copy: $10.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-64429-3 | $21.99/$19.99 Can.

shoWdoWnJfk and the integration of theWashington redskinsBy Thomas SmithBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0082-3 | 288pp.$18.00/$21.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

sWeet land of liBertYthe forgotten struggle for civil rights in the northBy Thomas J. SugrueRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-7038-8 | 736pp.$20.00/$24.95 Can. | exam copy: $10.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-756-3 | $15.99/$18.99 Can.

hillBillY nationalists, urBan racereBels, and Black PoWercommunity organizing in radical timesBy Amy Sonnie and James Tracy; Introduction by Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizMelville House | TR | 978-1-935554-66-0 | 256pp.$16.95/$18.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-61219-008-2 | $16.95/$18.95 Can.

hoW the states Got their shaPes toothe People Behind the BorderlinesBy Mark SteinSmithsonian Books | TR | 978-1-58834-350-5 | 352pp.$16.95/$19.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-58834-315-4 | $16.95/$19.95 Can.


the shootinG salvationistJ. frank norris and the murder trial thatcaptivated americaBy David R. StokesForeword by Bob Schieffer

Steerforth | TR | 978-1-58642-200-4 | 384pp.$17.95/$21.50 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-58642-189-2 | $17.95/$21.50 Can.

sarGethe life and times of sargent shriverBy Scott StosselOther Press | TR | 978-1-59051-513-6 | 800pp.$19.95/$22.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-59051-514-3 | $15.99/$22.95 Can.

outlaW marriaGesthe hidden histories of fifteen extraordinarysame-sex couplesBy Rodger StreitmatterBeacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-0334-3 | 224pp.$26.95/$32.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.50

e-Book: 978-0-8070-0335-0 | $26.95/$32.00 Can.

a different mirror for YounG PeoPlea history of multicultural americaBy Ronald TakakiSeven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-416-9 | 384pp.$18.95/$18.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-60980-417-6 | $18.95/$18.95 Can.

Presidential camPaiGn Posterstwo hundred Years of election artBy The Library of CongressQuirk Books | TR | 978-1-59474-554-6 | 208pp.$40.00/$45.00 Can. | exam copy: $20.00

the reBellious life of mrs. rosa ParksBy Jeanne TheoharisDo not order before 1/29/2013.Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-5047-7 | 360pp.$27.95/$33.00 Can. | exam copy: $14.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-5048-4 | $27.95/$33.00 Can.

Born on a mountaintoPon the road with davy crockett and the Ghostsof theWild frontierBy Bob ThompsonDo not order before 3/5/2013.Crown | HC | 978-0-307-72089-4 | 368pp.$27.00/$32.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.50

e-Book: 978-0-307-72091-7 | $13.99/$14.99 Can.

Ghost toWnslost cities of the oldWestBy Clint ThomsenShire | TR | 978-0-7478-1085-8 | 64pp.$9.95/$11.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-78200-107-2 | $9.95/$11.95 Can.

memorY remains9/11 artifacts at hangar 17Photographed by Francesc TorresNational Geographic | HC | 978-1-4262-0833-1 | 192pp.$50.00/$57.00 Can. | exam copy: $25.00

enemiesa history of the fBiBy TimWeinerRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6748-0 | 560pp.$30.00/$34.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00

Do not order paperback before 2/26/2013.Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7923-7 | 560pp.$20.00/$24.00 Can. | exam copy: $10.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-64389-0 | $15.99/$17.99 Can.

the odd clausesunderstanding the constitution through tenof its most curious ProvisionsBy JayWexlerBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0089-2 | 240pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-0091-5 | $24.95/$27.95 Can.

Parecomicmichael albert and the story of Participatory economicsBy Sean Michael Wilson and Carl ThompsonIntroduction by Noam Chomsky

Do not order before 3/12/2013.Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-456-5 | 224pp.$18.95/$18.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-60980-457-2 | $18.95/$18.95 Can.

a YounG PeoPle’s historYof the united statescolumbus to theWar on terrorBy Howard ZinnContribution by Rebecca Stefoff

Seven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-58322-869-2 | 464pp.$19.95/$22.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-58322-945-3 | $19.95/$22.95 Can.

teachinG With VOICES OF A PEOPLE’SHISTORY OF THE UNITED STATESby howard zinn and anthony arnoveBy Gayle Olson-RaymerSeven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-58322-934-7 | 304pp.$21.00/$21.00 Can. | exam copy: $10.50


voices of a PeoPle’s historYof the united statesBy Howard Zinn and Anthony ArnoveSeven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-58322-916-3 | 672pp.$22.95/$25.95 Can. | exam copy: $11.50

e-Book: 978-1-58322-947-7 | $22.95/$25.95 Can.

ASIAN HISTORY

china’s WinGsWar, intrigue, romance, and adventure in the middlekingdom during the Golden age of flightBy Gregory CrouchBantam | HC | 978-0-553-80427-0 | 528pp.$30.00/$35.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00

e-Book: 978-0-345-53235-0 | $15.99/$18.99 Can.

nothinG to envY: ordinary lives in north koreaby Barbara DemickWinner, Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction

Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52391-2 | 336pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-385-52961-7 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.to read the author’s message to educators, go to:http://tinyurl.com/66a4fka

the cleanest racehownorth koreans see themselves andWhy it mattersBy B. R. MyersMelville House | TR | 978-1-935554-34-9 | 224pp.$20.00/$24.00 Can. | exam copy: $10.00

e-Book: 978-1-935554-97-4 | $20.00/$20.00 Can.

the eliminationa survivor of the khmer rouge confronts his Past andthe commandant of the killing fieldsBy Rithy Panh and Christophe BatailleTranslated by John Cullen

Do not order before 2/12/2013.Other Press | HC | 978-1-59051-558-7 | 300pp.$24.95/$28.95 Can. | exam copy: $12.50

e-Book: 978-1-59051-559-4 | $16.95/$19.95 Can.

vietnamerica: a family’s JourneyBy GB TranVillard Books | HC | 978-0-345-50872-0 | 288pp.$30.00/$34.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00

the secret historY of themonGol Queenshow the daughters of Genghis khan rescued his empireBy Jack WeatherfordBroadway | TR | 978-0-307-40716-0 | 336pp.$15.00/$17.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00


scorched earthlegacies of chemical Warfare in vietnamBy Fred A. WilcoxIntroduction by Noam Chomsky

Seven Stories Press | HC | 978-1-60980-138-0 | 240pp.$23.95/$26.95 Can. | exam copy: $12.00

e-Book: 978-1-60980-340-7 | $23.95/$26.95 Can.

CANADIAN HISTORY

mafia inc.the long, Bloody reign of canada’s sicilian clanBy André Cédilot and André NoëlVintage Canada | TR | 978-0-307-36041-0 | 544pp.$19.95/$22.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-36042-7 | $14.99/$14.99 Can.

nation makersir John a. macdonald: his life, our timesBy Richard J. GwynVintage Canada | TR | 978-0-307-35645-1 | 736pp.$23.00/$23.00 Can. | exam copy: $11.50

e-Book: 978-0-307-36687-0 | $17.99/$17.99 Can.

imaGininG canadaa century of Photographs PreservedBy The New York TimesByWilliamMorassuttiDoubleday Canada | HC | 978-0-385-67709-7 | 240pp.$40.00/$45.00 Can. | exam copy: $20.00

trudeau transformedthe shaping of a statesman 1944–1965By Max Nemni and Monique NemniMcClelland & Stewart | TR | 978-0-7710-5127-2 | 544pp.$24.99/$24.99 Can. | exam copy: $12.50

e-Book: 978-0-7710-5126-5 | $17.99/$17.99 Can.


EUROPEAN HISTORY

lost Gold of the dark aGesWar, treasure, and the mystery of the saxonsBy Caroline AlexanderIntroduction by Kevin Leahy

National Geographic | HC | 978-1-4262-0814-0 | 256pp.$35.00/$40.00 Can. | exam copy: $17.50

e-Book: 978-1-4262-0884-3 | $35.00/$40.00 Can.

the romantic revolutiona historyBy Tim BlanningModern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-8014-1 | 272pp.$15.00/$18.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60500-3 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.

citY of fortunehowvenice ruled the seasBy Roger CrowleyRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6820-3 | 464pp.$32.00/NCR | exam copy: $16.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-64426-2 | $16.99/NCR

murder in memoriamBy Didier DaeninckxTranslated by Liz Heron

Melville International Crime | TR | 978-1-61219-146-1 | 192pp.$14.95/$14.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-61219-147-8 | $14.95/$14.95 Can.

memoirs of a Breton PeasantBy Jean-Marie DeguignetTranslated by Linda Asher


e-Book: 978-1-60980-259-2 | $19.95/$22.95 Can.

loGavina streetlife and death in a sarajevo neighborhoodBy Barbara DemickSpiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-8129-8276-3 | 272pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-64412-5 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.

the BlitzBy Peter DoyleShire | TR | 978-0-7478-0804-6 | 56pp.$12.95/$14.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

When the World sPoke frenchBy Marc FumaroliTranslated by Richard Howard


mid-victorian BritainBy Christine GarwoodShire | TR | 978-0-7478-0830-5 | 88pp.$15.95/$17.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

thomas BecketWarrior, Priest, rebelBy John GuyRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6907-1 | 448pp.$35.00/$41.00 Can. | exam copy: $17.50

e-Book: 978-0-679-60341-2 | $17.99/$19.99 Can.

the Women’s suffraGe movementBy Molly Housego and Neil R. StoreyShire | TR | 978-0-7478-1089-6 | 64pp.$12.95/$14.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-78200-116-4 | $9.95/$11.95 Can.

catherine the GreatPortrait of aWomanBy Robert K. MassieRandom House | TR | 978-0-345-40877-8 | 672pp.$20.00/$24.00 Can. | exam copy: $10.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-044-1 | $15.99/$17.99 Can.

nicholas and alexandraBy Robert K. MassieModern Library | HC | 978-0-679-64561-0 | 672pp.$25.00/$29.95 Can. | exam copy: $12.50

e-Book: 978-0-307-78847-4 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.

Peter the Greathis life andWorldBy Robert K. MassieModern Library | HC | 978-0-679-64560-3 | 1136pp.$25.00/$29.95 Can. | exam copy: $12.50


e-Book: 978-0-307-81723-5 | $13.99/$15.99 Can.

the romanovsthe final chapterBy Robert K. MassieModern Library | HC | 978-0-679-64563-4 | 352pp.$23.00/$26.95 Can. | exam copy: $11.50

e-Book: 978-0-307-87386-6 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.for more titles by robert k. massie, go to: http://tinyurl.com/9qkmxvt

victorian factorY lifeBy Trevor MayShire | TR | 978-0-7478-0724-7 | 56pp.$12.95/$14.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00


road to valora true story ofWorldWar ii italy, the nazis, and thecyclist Who inspired a nationBy Aili McConnon and Andres McConnonCrown | HC | 978-0-307-59064-0 | 336pp.$25.00/NCR | exam copy: $12.50


e-Book: 978-0-307-59066-4 | $12.99/NCR

When the World callsthe inside story of the Peace corps and its first fifty YearsBy Stanley MeislerBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-5051-4 | 288pp.$19.00/$22.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-9547-8 | $26.95/$31.00 Can.

voltaire in loveBy Nancy MitfordIntroduction by Adam Gopnik

NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-59017-578-1 | 280pp.$16.95/NCR | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-59017-593-4 | $16.95/NCR

the sun kinGBy Nancy MitfordIntroduction by Philip Mansel

NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-59017-491-3 | 272pp.$15.95/NCR | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-59017-506-4 | $15.95/NCR

citizens of londonthe americansWho stood with Britain in its darkest,finest hourBy Lynne OlsonRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-7935-0 | 496pp.$17.00/NCR | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-982-6 | $13.99/NCR

diarY of a man in desPairBy Friedrich ReckTranslated by Paul Rubens; Introduction by Richard J. Evans

Do not order before 2/12/2013.NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-59017-586-6 | 256pp.$15.95/$18.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-59017-599-6 | $15.95/$15.95 Can.

stalin’s General: the life of Georgy zhukovBy Geoffrey RobertsRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6692-6 | 400pp.$30.00/$35.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-64517-7 | $14.99/$15.99 Can.

the essential WritinGs of rousseauBy Jean-Jacques RousseauTranslated by Peter Constantine; Edited by Leo Damrosch

Do not order before 3/26/2013.Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-8038-7 | 576pp.$18.00/$21.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-64539-9 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.

1970s Britain: 1970–1979By Janet Shepherd and John ShepherdShire | TR | 978-0-7478-1097-1 | 80pp. | $15.95/$17.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

Graven With diamondsthe many lives of thomasWyatt: Poet, lover, statesman,and spy in the court of henry viiiBy Nicola ShulmanDo not order before 2/5/2013.Steerforth | TR | 978-1-58642-207-3 | 368pp.$19.99/$23.99 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-58642-208-0 | $19.99/$23.99 Can.

an honouraBle enGlishmanthe life of hugh trevor-roperBy Adam SismanRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6976-7 | 672pp.$40.00/$45.00 Can. | exam copy: $20.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60473-0 | $21.99/$21.99 Can.

elizaBeth the Queenthe life of a modern monarchBy Sally Bedell SmithRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-7979-4 | 720pp.$20.00/$24.00 Can. | exam copy: $10.00


the PhilosoPhical Breakfast cluBfour remarkable friendsWho transformed scienceand changed theWorldBy Laura J. SnyderBroadway | TR | 978-0-7679-3049-9 | 448pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-71617-0 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.


Winston churchillBy Kevin TheakstonShire | TR | 978-0-7478-1045-2 | 56pp.$12.95/$14.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

the Golden emPirespain, charles v, and the creation of americaBy Hugh ThomasRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6125-9 | 672pp.$35.00/NCR | exam copy: $17.50

e-Book: 978-1-58836-904-8 | $18.99/NCR

MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY

Warriors of Godinside hezbollah’s thirty-Year struggle against israelBy Nicholas BlanfordRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6836-4 | 544pp.$30.00/$34.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00


hamasfrom resistance to GovernmentBy Paola CaridiTranslated by Andrea Teti


e-Book: 978-1-60980-083-3 | $24.95/$24.95 Can.

Brokers of deceithow the u.s. has undermined Peace in the middle eastBy Rashid KhalidiDo not order before 3/12/2013.Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-4475-9 | 208pp.$25.95/$29.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-4476-6 | $25.95/$29.00 Can.

the Balfour declarationthe origins of the arab-israeli conflictBy Jonathan SchneerRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-7603-8 | 480pp.$17.00/NCR | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60362-7 | $13.99/NCR

Guerrilla leadert. e. lawrence and the arab revoltBy James SchneiderBantam | HC | 978-0-553-80764-6 | 368pp.$28.00/$33.00 Can. | exam copy: $14.00

e-Book: 978-0-345-53020-2 | $14.99/$17.99 Can.

our man in tehranthe truth Behind the secret mission to savesix americans during the iran hostage crisisand the ambassadorWhoWorked with the ciato Bring themhomeBy Robert WrightOther Press | HC | 978-1-59051-413-9 | 432pp.$25.95/NCR | exam copy: $13.00

e-Book: 978-1-59051-414-6 | $19.99/NCR

MILITARY HISTORY

manhuntthe ten-Year search for Bin laden—from 9/11 to abbottabadBy Peter L. BergenCrown | HC | 978-0-307-95557-9 | 384pp.$26.00/NCR | exam copy: $13.00


Audio: 978-0-307-96954-5 | $40.00/$46.00 Can.e-Book: 978-0-307-95558-6 | $12.99/NCR

tWelve desPerate milesthe epicWorldWar ii voyage of the ss ContessaBy Tim BradyCrown | HC | 978-0-307-59037-4 | 352pp.$26.00/$31.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-59039-8 | $12.99/$16.99 Can.

isaac’s armYa story of courage and survival in nazi-occupied PolandBy Matthew BrzezinskiRandom House | HC | 978-0-553-80727-1 | 496pp.$30.00/$35.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-64530-6 | $14.99/$16.99 Can.

decision PointsBy GeorgeW. BushBroadway | TR | 978-0-307-59063-3 | 512pp.$18.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00


the color of Warhow one Battle Broke Japan and anotherchanged americaBy James CampbellCrown | HC | 978-0-307-46121-6 | 512pp.$30.00/$35.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-46123-0 | $14.99/$18.99 Can.


the korean Wara historyBy Bruce CumingsModern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7896-4 | 320pp.$16.00/$18.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60378-8 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.

Joshua l. chamBerlainthe life in letters of a Great leader of theamerican civil WarEdited by Thomas Desjardin and The National Civil War MuseumOsprey | HC | 978-1-84908-559-5 | 336pp.$25.95/$30.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00

e-Book: 978-1-78096-426-3 | $12.99/$12.99 Can.

incomParaBlenapoleon’s 9th light infantry regimentBy Terry CrowdyOsprey | HC | 978-1-84908-332-4 | 400pp.$29.95/$34.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00

e-Book: 978-1-78200-184-3 | $9.95/$9.95 Can.

first World War Britain1914–1919By Peter DoyleShire | TR | 978-0-7478-1098-8 | 80pp.$15.95/$17.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-78200-121-8 | $10.95/$12.95 Can.

a soldier’s sketchBookfrom the front lines ofWorldWar iiBy Joseph FarrisNational Geographic | HC | 978-1-4262-0817-1 | 304pp.$30.00/$34.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00

overlordthe illustrated history of the d-day landingsBy Ken Ford and Steven J. ZalogaOsprey | TR | 978-1-84908-478-9 | 368pp.$18.95/$22.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

from rocks to rocketsarms and armies through the agesByWilliam GilkersonOsprey | HC | 978-1-84603-423-7 | 64pp.$14.95/$15.95 Can. | exam copy: $7.50

state vs. defensethe Battle to define america’s empireBy Stephen GlainBroadway | TR | 978-0-307-40842-6 | 496pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-88898-3 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.

shiloh, 1862ByWinston GroomNational Geographic | HC | 978-1-4262-0874-4 | 448pp.$30.00/$34.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00

e-Book: 978-1-4262-0879-9 | $30.00/$34.00 Can.

freedom’s forGehow american Business Produced victory inWorldWar iiBy Arthur HermanRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6964-4 | 432pp.$28.00/$34.00 Can. | exam copy: $14.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60463-1 | $12.99/$17.99 Can.

hearts touched BY firethe Best of Battles and leaders of the civil WarEdited by Harold HolzerModern Library | HC | 978-0-679-64364-7 | 1264pp.$38.00/$44.00 Can. | exam copy: $19.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60430-3 | $19.99/$21.99 Can.

the War of 1812 and the rise ofthe u.s. navYBy Mark Collins Jenkins and David TaylorForeword by Douglas Brinkley


kniGhttheWarrior andWorld of chivalryBy Robert JonesOsprey | HC | 978-1-84908-312-6 | 240pp.$29.95/$34.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00

enGineers of victorYthe Problem solversWho turned the tidein the secondWorldWarBy Paul KennedyDo not order before 1/29/2013.Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6761-9 | 464pp.$30.00/NCR | exam copy: $15.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-898-0 | $14.99/NCR


u.s. small arms in World War iiBy Tom Laemlein and Dale DyeOsprey Publishing | HC | 978-1-84908-494-9 | 240pp.$35.00/$40.00 Can. | exam copy: $17.50

douBle crossthe true story of the d-day spiesBy Ben MacintyreCrown | HC | 978-0-307-88875-4 | 416pp.$26.00/$31.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00


oPeration mincemeathow a deadman and a Bizarre Plan fooled the nazisand assured an allied victoryBy Ben MacintyreBroadway | TR | 978-0-307-45328-0 | 432pp.$15.00/$17.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00


driftthe unmooring of american military PowerBy Rachel MaddowDo not order before 3/12/2013.Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-46099-8 | 304pp.$15.00/$18.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00


Battlefield anGelssaving lives under enemy fire from valley forge toafghanistanBy Scott McGaughOsprey | HC | 978-1-84908-515-1 | 304pp.$24.95/$27.95 Can. | exam copy: $12.50

e-Book: 978-1-84908-867-1 | $9.95/$9.95 Can.

the Ghosts of cannaehannibal and the darkest hour of the roman republicBy Robert L. O’ConnellRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-7867-4 | 336pp.$17.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60379-5 | $12.99/$13.99 Can.

those anGrY daYsroosevelt, lindbergh, and america’s fight overWorldWar ii, 1939–1941By Lynne OlsonDo not order before 3/26/2013.Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6974-3 | 576pp.$30.00/$35.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60471-6 | $14.99/$15.99 Can.

the road to victorYfrom Pearl harbor to okinawaEdited by Professor Robert O’NeillOsprey | HC | 978-1-84908-716-2 | 256pp.$27.95/$33.00 Can. | exam copy $14.00

e-Book: 978-1-84908-887-9 | $12.99/$12.99 Can.

War in the Pacific 1941–1945By Richard Overy and Dale DyeOsprey Publishing | HC | 978-1-84908-394-2 | 64pp.$24.95/NCR | exam copy: $12.50

out of noWherea history of the military sniper, from the sharpshooterto afghanistanBy Martin PeglerOsprey | TR | 978-1-84908-645-5 | 296pp.$14.95/$16.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-84908-875-6 | $7.95/$7.95 Can.

the untold civil Warexploring the human side ofWarBy James RobertsonEdited by Neil Kagan


War on the runthe epic story of robert rogers and the conquest ofamerica’s first frontierBy John F. RossBantam | TR | 978-0-553-38457-4 | 576pp.$18.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-553-90665-3 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.

countinG the daYsPoWs, internees, and stragglers ofWorldWar iiin the PacificBy Craig B. SmithSmithsonian Books | HC | 978-1-58834-355-0 | 288pp.$27.95/$33.00 Can. | exam copy: $14.00

e-Book: 978-1-58834-356-7 | $27.95/$33.00 Can.

the last full measurehow soldiers die in BattleBy Michael StephensonCrown | HC | 978-0-307-39584-9 | 480pp.$28.00/$34.00 Can. | exam copy: $14.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-95277-6 | $13.99/$17.99 Can.

the Women’s land armYBy Neil StoreyShire | TR | 978-0-7478-1163-3 | 56pp.$12.95/$14.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00


BridGe of sPiesBy Giles WhittellBroadway | TR | 978-0-7679-3108-3 | 312pp.$15.00/NCR | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-71998-0 | $11.99/NCR

iraQ full circle: from shock and awe to the lastcombat Patrol in Baghdad and BeyondBy Col. Darron L. WrightOsprey | HC | 978-1-84908-812-1 | 392pp.$25.95/$30.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00

e-Book: 978-1-78200-291-8 | $9.95/$9.95 Can.

the White rose of stalinGradthe real-life adventure of lidiya vladimirovna litvyak,the highest scoring female air ace of all timeBy Bill YenneDo not order before 2/19/2013.Osprey | HC | 978-1-84908-810-7 | 328pp.$27.95/$33.00 Can. | exam copy: $14.00

WORLD HISTORY

duels and duellinGBy Stephen BanksShire | TR | 978-0-7478-1143-5 | 64pp.$12.95/$14.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-7478-1261-6 | $7.95/$7.95 Can.

Pirate hunter of the cariBBeanthe adventurous life of captainWoodes rogersBy David CordinglyRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-8017-2 | 320pp.$18.00/$21.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-64421-7 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC historY Bookan interactive JourneyBy Marcus CowperNational Geographic | HC | 978-1-4262-0679-5 | 184pp.$40.00/$48.00 Can. | exam copy: $20.00

the autoBioGraPhY of a suPer-tramPByW. H. Davies; Preface by George Bernard ShawMelville House | TR | 978-1-61219-022-8 | 336pp.$15.00/$17.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-61219-024-2 | $15.00/$17.00 Can.

to the ends of the earthscotland’s Global diaspora, 1750–2010By T. M. DevineSmithsonian Books | HC | 978-1-58834-317-8 | 416pp.$32.95/NCR | exam copy: $16.50

e-Book: 978-1-58834-318-5 | $32.95/NCR

the rise of romethe making of theWorld’s Greatest empireBy Anthony EverittRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6663-6 | 512pp.$30.00/$35.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-64516-0 | $14.99/$16.99 Can.

runninG With the kenYansPassion, adventure, and the secrets of the fastestPeople on earthBy Adharanand FinnBallantine | HC | 978-0-345-52879-7 | 288pp.$26.00/NCR | exam copy: $13.00

Audio: 978-0-307-98973-4 | $20.00/NCRe-Book: 978-0-345-53352-4 | $13.99/NCR

the oBamasthe untold story of an african familyBy Peter FirstbrookBroadway | TR | 978-0-307-59141-8 | 360pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00


a World on fireBritain’s crucial role in the american civil WarBy Amanda ForemanRandom House | TR | 978-0-375-75696-2 | 1008pp.$20.00/$24.00 Can. | exam copy: $10.00


the niGht Wanderersuganda’s children and the lord’s resistance armyByWojciech JagielskiTranslated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones


e-Book: 978-1-60980-361-2 | $18.95/$18.95 Can.


river of darknessfrancisco orellana’s legendary voyage of death anddiscovery down the amazonBy Buddy LevyBantam | HC | 978-0-553-80750-9 | 352pp.$27.00/$31.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.50

e-Book: 978-0-553-90810-7 | $13.99/$16.99 Can.

Great emPiresan illustrated atlasBy National GeographicNational Geographic | HC | 978-1-4262-0829-4 | 368pp.$40.00/$45.00 Can. | exam copy: $20.00

an honouraBle enGlishmanthe life of hugh trevor-roperBy Adam SismanRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6976-7 | 672pp.$40.00/$45.00 Can. | exam copy: $20.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60473-0 | $21.99/$21.99 Can.

the artist, the PhilosoPher,and the Warriorda vinci, machiavelli, and Borgia and theWorld they shapedBy Paul StrathernBantam | TR | 978-0-553-38614-1 | 480pp.$18.00/NCR | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-553-90689-9 | $13.99/NCR

GENERAL HISTORY

a historY of marriaGeBy Elizabeth AbbottSeven Stories Press | HC | 978-1-60980-088-8 | 464pp.$24.95/NCR | exam copy: $12.50

e-Book: 978-1-60980-085-7 | $24.95/$27.95 Can.

WhY nations failthe origins of Power, Prosperity, and PovertyBy Daron Acemoglu and James RobinsonCrown Business | HC | 978-0-307-71921-8 | 544pp.$30.00/$35.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00


chasinG the sunthe epic story of the star that Gives us lifeBy Richard CohenRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-8092-9 | 608pp.$20.00/$23.00 Can. | exam copy: $10.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-934-5 | $11.99/$17.99 Can.

aPollo’s anGelsa history of BalletBy Jennifer HomansRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-6874-3 | 672pp.$20.00/$23.00 Can. | exam copy: $10.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60390-0 | $17.99/$17.99 Can.

on assiGnment WithNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICthe inside story of legendary explorers,Photographers, and adventurersBy Mark Collins JenkinsNational Geographic | TR | 978-1-4262-1013-6 | 136pp.$9.95/$11.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

the aGe of insiGhtthe Quest to understand the unconscious in art,mind, and Brain, from vienna 1900 to the PresentBy Eric KandelRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6871-5 | 656pp.$40.00/$46.00 Can. | exam copy: $20.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-930-7 | $17.99/$19.99 Can.

the revenGe of GeoGraPhYWhat the map tells us about coming conflictsand the Battle against fateBy Robert D. KaplanRandom House | HC | 978-1-4000-6983-5 | 432pp.$28.00/$34.00 Can. | exam copy: $14.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60483-9 | $14.99/$15.99 Can.

this livinG handand other essaysBy EdmundMorrisRandom House | HC | 978-0-8129-9312-7 | 528pp.$32.00/$38.00 Can. | exam copy: $16.00


the ninthBeethoven and theWorld in 1824By Harvey SachsRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-6907-8 | 240pp.$15.00/$17.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00


THE NEW YORK REVIEW aBroadfifty Years of international reportageEdited by Robert B. SilversIntroduction by Ian Buruma

Do not order before 2/26/2013.NewYork Review Books | HC | 978-1-59017-631-3 | 432pp.$33.00/$35.00 Can. | exam copy: $16.50

e-Book: 978-1-59017-632-0 | $27.95/$27.95 Can.


the immortal life of henrietta lacksBy Rebecca SklootBroadway | TR | 978-1-4000-5218-9 | 400pp.$16.00/$18.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00


hoWard zinn on WarBy Howard Zinn; Introduction by Marilyn B. YoungSeven Stories Press | TR | 978-1-60980-133-5 | 272pp.$16.95/$18.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-60980-235-6 | $16.95/$18.95 Can.

hoWard zinn on raceBy Howard ZinnIntroduction by Cornel West


e-Book: 978-1-60980-334-6 | $14.95/$16.95 Can.

hoWard zinn on historYBy Howard ZinnIntroduction by Staughton Lynd


e-Book: 978-1-60980-234-9 | $16.95/$18.95 Can.

GENDER STUDIES

straiGhtthe surprisingly short history of hetrosexualityBy Hanne BlankBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-4459-9 |264pp.$18.00/$21.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-4444-5 | $26.95/$32.00 Can.

a Queer historY of the united statesBy Michael BronskiBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-4465-0 | 312pp.$17.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-4466-7 | $27.95/$32.00 Can.

mY mother’s WarsBy Lillian FadermanDo not order before 3/5/2013.Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-5052-1 | 288pp.$25.95/$29.95 Can. | exam copy: $13.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-5053-8 | $25.95/$29.95 Can.

Women’s historY for BeGinnersBy Bonnie MorrisIllustrated by Phillip Evans

For Beginners | TR | 978-1-934389-60-7 | 208pp.$16.99/$18.99 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-934389-64-5 | $16.99/$18.99 Can.

the first ladY of fleet streetthe life of rachel Beer: crusading heiress andnewspaper PioneerBy Eilat Negev and Yehuda KorenBantam | HC | 978-0-553-80743-1 | 368pp.$30.00/$35.00 Can. | exam copy: $15.00

e-Book: 978-0-345-53238-1 | $15.99/$18.99 Can.

the feminist Promise1792 to the PresentBy Christine StansellModern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7202-3 | 528pp.$18.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-58836-916-1 | $13.99/$13.99 Can.

alice James: a BiographyBy Jean StrousePreface by Colm Tóibín


e-Book: 978-1-59017-472-2 | $17.95/$17.95 Can.

HISTORY OF RELIGION

no God But Godthe origins, evolution, and future of islamBy Reza AslanRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-8244-2 | 384pp.$17.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-64377-7 | $11.99/$13.99 Can.

render unto romethe secret life of money in the catholic churchBy Jason BerryCrown | HC | 978-0-385-53132-0 | 432pp.$25.00/$28.95 Can. | exam copy: $12.50

Broadway | TR | 978-0-385-53134-4 | 432pp.$16.00/$19.00 | exam copy: $3.00



the mormon PeoPlethe making of an american faithBy Matthew BowmanRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-8336-4 | 368pp.$17.00/$20.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-64491-0 | $12.99/$13.99 Can.

immortalitYthe Quest to live forever and how it drives civilizationBy Stephen CaveCrown | HC | 978-0-307-88491-6 | 336pp.$25.00/$29.95 Can. | exam copy: $12.50

e-Book: 978-0-307-88493-0 | $12.99/$15.99 Can.

the Jefferson BiBle,SMITHSONIAN editionthe life andmorals of Jesus of nazarethBy Thomas JeffersonIntroduction by Harry Rubenstein and Barbara Clark Smith

Smithsonian Books | HC | 978-1-58834-312-3 | 200pp.$35.00/$40.00 Can. | exam copy: $17.50

the saint and the sultanthe crusades, islam, and francis of assisi’s mission of PeaceBy Paul MosesDoubleday Religion | HC | 978-0-385-52370-7 | 320pp.$26.00/$32.00 Can. | exam copy: $13.00

e-Book: 978-0-307-58951-4 | $14.99/$16.99 Can.

ProPhetic encountersreligion and the american radical traditionBy Dan McKananBeacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-1317-5 | 336pp.$24.00/$28.00 Can. | exam copy: $12.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-1316-8 | $34.95/$40.00 Can.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC concise historYof World reliGionsan illustrated time lineBy National GeographicEdited by Tim Cooke


aBsolute monarchsa history of the PapacyBy John Julius NorwichRandom House | TR | 978-0-8129-7884-1 | 528pp.$20.00/$24.00 Can. | exam copy: $10.00

e-Book: 978-0-679-60499-0 | $15.99/$17.99 Can.

the PoPe Who Quita true medieval tale of mystery, death, and salvationBy Jon M. SweeneyImage | TR | 978-0-385-53189-4 | 304pp.$14.00/$17.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-385-53188-7 | $9.99/$12.99 Can.

HOLOCAUST STUDIES

man’s search for meaninGBy Viktor FranklForeword by Harold S. KushnerAfterword byWilliam J. Winslade


Beacon Press | MM | 978-0-8070-1429-5 | 184pp.$7.99/$9.99 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-0-8070-1428-8 | $14.00/$17.00 Can.

dead funnYtelling Jokes in hitler’s GermanyBy Rudolph HerzogTranslated by Jefferson Chase

Melville House | TR | 978-1-61219-130-0 | 256pp.$16.95/$16.95 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-935554-93-6 | $26.00/$26.00 Can.

in the Garden of Beastslove, terror, and an american family in hitler’s BerlinBy Erik LarsonBroadway | TR | 978-0-307-40885-3 | 480pp.$16.00/$19.00 Can. | exam copy: $3.00


crossinG the Borders of timea true love story ofWar, exile, and love reclaimedBy Leslie MaitlandOther Press | TR | 978-1-59051-570-9 | 512pp.$17.95/$21.50 Can. | exam copy: $3.00

e-Book: 978-1-59051-497-9 | $19.99/$22.95 Can.

a centurY of Wisdomlessons from the life of alice herz-sommer,theWorld’s oldest living holocaust survivorBy Caroline StoessingerForeword by Václav Havel

Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-8129-9281-6 | 256pp.$23.00/$26.95 Can. | exam copy: $11.50


48

o

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Sign up for our e-newsletters:o African American Studies o Asian Studies o Gender Studies o Latin American Studies o Literatureo Middle Eastern Studies o Military History o Political Science o Religion o Sociology

MAIL WITH PAYMENT* TO:Examination Copy Department, Random House, Inc., Customer Service, 400 Hahn Road, Westminster, MD 21157

*Orders received without payment cannot be filled.Queries: [email protected]

To order Examination Copies using a credit card, go to:www.randomhouse.com/academic/examcopy

historY adoPtion titles, 2013 examination coPY order formExamination copies are available to college professors, instructors, or First-Year administrators seeking titles to review for adoption consideration.

The exam copy prices are as follows: $3.00 for each paperback priced under $20.00, and 50% off the retail price for all hardcovers and paperbacks pricedat or over $20.00. Examination copies are limited to ten per teacher per school year and can only be mailed to valid U.S. addresses.

To order, use the order form on the back of this catalog. Examination copies must be prepaid with a check or money order made payable to Random House,Inc. Offer only valid in the United States. All requests are subject to approval and availability. Please allow 2–4 weeks for delivery.

TOTAL COST OF ALL BOOKS ORDERED (enclose payment*): ____________

SHIP TO: School/College/University address only (books cannot be shipped to home addresses).Please print clearly or attach business card here.

E-mail address ____________________________________________________________________________

Name __________________________________________________________________________________________

Title ____________________________________________________________________________________________

School/College/University ________________________________________________________________________

Department ______________________________________________________________________________________

Address ________________________________________________________________________________________

City/State/ZIP ____________________________________________________________________________________

ISBN Author/Title Exam Price*see individual titles for costs

DESK COPIES: We are pleased to provide complimentary desk copies of adopted required reading books for instructors at accredited colleges and universities. One desk copy isavailable for every twenty copies ordered. All requests are subject to availability and approval.

NOTE: Due to the high volume of requests, desk copy requests are now accepted only via our online form. An order for student copies must be on filewith your campus bookstore before the desk copy can be shipped. Visit our website at www.randomhouse.com/academic for more information.

SOURCE KEY HIS13

o History

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

__________________________ ______________________________________________ ____________

__________________________ ______________________________________________ ____________

__________________________ ______________________________________________ ____________

__________________________ ______________________________________________ ____________

__________________________ ______________________________________________ ____________

__________________________ ______________________________________________ ____________

__________________________ ______________________________________________ ____________

__________________________ ______________________________________________ ____________

__________________________ ______________________________________________ ____________

__________________________ ______________________________________________ ____________

Come Visit Our Academic Website:www.randomhouse.com/academic

Request desk copies of ourbooks directly online. It isthe fastest, easiest, andmost accurate way to getyour desk copies.

Sign up for one ormore of our monthlyemail newsletters foradvance informationabout new andforthcoming titlesfor all imprints ofRandom House, Inc.

Print out freeTeacher’s/Reader’sGuides, which aredesigned to framediscussions throughquestions that explorereading themes andcomprehension.

View ourAcademicConferenceExhibit Scheduleor print out a listof our Titles onDisplay fromprevious andcurrent exhibits.

Search allacademic titlesby title, authorname, ISBN, orkeyword.

Browse ouracademic titlesby discipline(e.g., General,African, AmericanHistory, AfricanAmerican, NativeAmerican,Women's History).

View our list ofrecommendedtitles broken downby sub-disciplines.

Click on title line for a more detailedbook description.

ACADEMIC DEPT.1745 BROADWAY, 3-1

NEW YORK, NY 10019

PRSRT STDU.S. POSTAGE

PAIDRIPON, WI

PERMIT NO. 100

random house 2013-2014 history catalog

Documents