The eighth winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize is Daniel Brown's Taking the Occasion. From i...

Despite beautiful landscapes and bountiful harvests, farming is hard work and always has been. Th...

This remarkable, innovative book portrays the American experience in microcosm. Gerald McFarland ...

The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation...

With Hegel, philosophy became very difficult indeed. His dialectical method produced the most gra...

The most gripping of Ibsen's later, brooding self-portraits, The Master Builder explores the natu...

A compact and incisive history of the American economy since 1945, concentrating on the developme...

The poems in William Virgil Davis's Landscape and Journey constitute forays onto actual terrain--...

'Chasing Spies' confirms that professionalism and accountability are part of the FBI's long histo...

Kristie Lindenmeyer shows that the experiences of depression-era children help us understand the ...

These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in e...

Almost a half-century has passed since the brief presidency of John F. Kennedy illuminated the Am...

In this narrative history from Bonaparte and Muhammad Ali to Ben-Gurion and the Mufti, Mr. Idinop...

Drawn from twenty-five years of the magazine, this abundant collection contains a generous sampli...

This novel's heroine of the 1890s must earn her own living in a society whose power and values ar...

This book chronicles American attitudes toward sex in the twentith century.

Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now ap...

In this collection of some thirty essays, Richard Schickel has selected the most provocative and ...

With health care reform a prime objective of the Obama administration, the subject matter of The ...

Lyndon Johnson brought to the presidency a political outlook nurtured by New Deal liberalism and ...

With more than five hundred entries, from A to Z, providing information on the most important pla...

Here is the first winner of the New Criterion poetry prize. Petersen has long been an underapprec...

Sigmund Stein was a Jew and also a German with deep roots in rural Germany. When fellow Jews urge...

Malanga describes an emerging new political dynamic: the contest between those who benefit from a...

Far from being a novelty, this book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work...

By far Strindberg's most aggressive work. The Father is a feverish nightmare of the struggle he s...

'The cold war', Edward Pessen writes, 'was the most unusual war the United States ever fought'. I...

Since the advent of the New Deal, unbalanced budgets have become an almost permanent feature of A...

A new collection of essays on American writing and criticism about the difference between art and...

Bacevich has drawn together a stimulating collection of arguments on a subject of compelling curr...

Written for the general reader 'in plain though not inelegant English', 'A Theatergoer's Guide' e...

Manhattanites have always had a disdain for the rearview mirror. That's where trends begin, and t...

In Extravagant Expectations Paul Hollander investigates how Americans now pursue romantic partner...

Rollyson's work is an informative and entertaining text for those interested in biography. He cov...

Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now ap...

The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation...

In this persuasive reappraisal of Truman 's 1948 victory, Harold Gullan argues that it was neithe...

Prize-winning reporter Robert Shogan draws on the lessons of nine presidential elections to asses...

A remarkable memoir of our age by a public servant, innovative developer, and leader in the world...

The most gripping of Ibsen's later, brooding self-portraits, The Master Builder explores the natu...

A brief and enlightening exploration of Confucius's life and ideas, presented in entertaining and...

A bumptious narrative history of American newspapermen in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, a time wh...

Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now ap...

Everyone knew him then: Bruce Barton was a cultural icon. Two-thirds of American history textbook...

Winner of the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes, this is the standard history of the years between Jef...

Fifteen brilliant essays on the kind of culture created by the magic of the marketplace in 1980s ...

These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in e...

Paul Strathern brings a highly refined appraisal of the writer and his work, authoritative and cl...