AMERICAN HISTORY. NEW TITLES for 2016

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1 P e n g u i n P u b l i s h i n g G r o u p w w w. p e n g u i n. c o m / a c a d e m i c AMERICAN HISTORY NEW TITLES for 2016

2 AMY KITTELSTROM The Religion of Democracy Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition Kittelstrom shows how religion and democracy have worked together as universal ideals in American culture and as guides to moral action and the social practice of treating one another as equals who deserve to be free. She recreates the liberal conversation from the eighteenth century to the twentieth by tracing the lived connections among seven thinkers from John Adams to William James to Jane Addams. I found myself moved not only by its intellectual range and the lucidity of Kittelstrom s prose but also by its central theme, the emergence in nineteenth-century America of an ethical commitment to democracy s highest moral and practical possibilities.illuminating. David D. Hall, Harvard University PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER 448 PAGES $32.95 SARAH GRIMKÉ and ANGELINA GRIMKÉ On Slavery and Abolitionism INTRODUCTION BY MARK PERRY This collection of historic writings offers glimpses into the lives of the slave-ownerturned-abolitionist sisters and pioneers of the women s rights movement portrayed in Sue Monk Kidd s novel The Invention of Wings. Their words, greeted with trepidation and threats in their own time, speak to us now as enduring examples of triumph and hope. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 352 PAGES $16.00 ROGER LOWENSTEIN America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve America s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Acclaimed financial journalist and author Lowenstein explains complex financial and political issues with striking clarity, infuses the debates of our past with all the gripping immediacy of today, and paints unforgettable portraits of Gilded Age bankers, presidents, and politicians. Lowenstein tells, vividly and compellingly the remarkable tale of the politics, disagreements, decisions and crises that culminated in the Federal Reserve Act. Robert Rubin, The New York Times Book Review A highly engaging historical account. Ben Bernanke PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER 368 PAGES $29.95 STEVE INSKEEP Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab Inskeep captures a tragic turning point in American history in this dramatic narrative of President Andrew Jackson s determination to expel Native Americans from the east coast and the opposition he faced from Cherokee Chief John Ross, who used the United States own legal system to champion the cause of the Five Civilized Tribes all the way to the Supreme Court. Magnificent...The story of the Cherokee removal has been told many times, but never before has a single book given us such a sense of how it happened and what it meant, not only for Indians, but also for the future and soul of America. The Washington Post Brilliantly illuminates [the] troubling story. Told with pinpoint accuracy, evenhanded sympathy, and sparkling prose, this is truly a tale for our times. Daniel Feller, director of the Papers of Andrew Jackson, University of Tennessee PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER 448 PAGES $29.95

3 CHRISTIAN G. APPY American Reckoning The Vietnam War and Our National Identity Drawing on a vast variety of sources, Appy offers an original and sometimes controversial analysis of the war s realities and myths and its impact on our national identity, conscience, pride, shame, popular culture, and postwar foreign policy. Appy s penetrating and lucid account helps us make sense as few books have of this difficult chapter in the nation s history. Fredrik Logevall, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Embers of War Appy has written a compelling reflection on the Vietnam War and its aftermath of endless war. He argues persuasively that we must remember the war and its consequences if we are to come to a full reckoning with the past and finally dispel the myth of American exceptionalism. Marilyn B. Young, New York University VIKING HARDCOVER 416 PAGES $28.95 PENGUIN PAPERBACK 416 PAGES $18.00 PAPERBACK AVAILABLE JANUARY 2016 BRYAN BURROUGH Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence Benefiting from a wealth of interviews with former underground members and FBI agents, Days of Rage is an explosive account of the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s and the FBI s desperate efforts to combat them. [A] rich and important history [based on] wide-ranging and often revelatory interviews with many Weather alumni. The Washington Post A fascinating portrait of the all-but-forgotten radical underground of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Burrough gives us the first full picture of a secret world where radical dreams often ended in personal and political tragedy. Beverly Gage, Yale University PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER 608 PAGES $29.95 JULIAN E. ZELIZER The Fierce Urgency of Now Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society A majestic big-picture account of the Great Society and the forces that shaped it, from Lyndon Johnson and members of Congress to the civil rights movement and the media. "In his insightful history...zelizer briskly dispels nostalgia for a time when politics were supposedly easier...[an] intelligent, informative book. The Washington Post PENGUIN PAPERBACK 384 PAGES $18.00 JOHN W. DEAN The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It Former White House counsel John W. Dean, one of the last major surviving figures of Watergate, draws on his own transcripts of almost a thousand conversations, a wealth of Nixon s secretly recorded information, and more than 150,000 pages of documents in the National Archives and the Nixon Library to connect the dots between what we ve come to believe about Watergate and what actually happened. Dean, as always the model of precision and doggedness, has performed yeoman service. Bob Woodward, The Washington Post PENGUIN PAPERBACK 784 PAGES $18.00

4 SARAH VOWELL Lafayette in the Somewhat United States In this insightful, irreverent, and unconventional account of George Washington s trusted officer and friend, the French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette, Sarah Vowell chronicles the general s years on both sides of the Atlantic, from the high-minded debates of Independence Hall to the frozen wasteland of Valley Forge, from bloody battlefields to the Palace of Versailles, accompanied by encounters with figures like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Cornwallis, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Antoinette and various kings, Quakers and redcoats. At once light-footed and light-hearted, [Vowell's] histories are dare I say it fun. And Lafayette is no different. Even amid defeats at Brandywine and despair at Valley Forge Vowell emerges from the Revolutionary War with an unabashed smile on her face. I'd be surprised if her reader doesn't, too. NPR.org Informative, funny and insightful. TIME RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER 288 PAGES $27.95 JOHN SEDGWICK War of Two Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting Vice President into a fugitive. BERKLEY HARDCOVER 480 PAGES $27.95 FRANÇOIS FURSTENBERG When the United States Spoke French Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation Offers a fresh perspective on the tumultuous first years of America as a young nation, exploring this formative period through the eyes of five distinguished Frenchmen who took refuge in America. Their stories show some of the most famous events of early American history in a new light from the battles with Native Americans on the western frontier to the Haitian Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion to the Louisiana Purchase in [A] fascinating account of French involvement in the economic and cultural life of the young American Republic.Furstenberg has the vision to encompass a broad pageant in this splendid book, which combines erudition and great flair. The Wall Street Journal PENGUIN PAPERBACK 512 PAGES $20.00 THOMAS PAINE Common Sense and The American Crisis I INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD BEEMAN This expanded new edition of the writings that inspired the American Revolution features Paine s The American Crisis I, the first in a series of pamphlets aimed at bolstering American morale during the Revolution, and an introduction by preeminent constitutional expert Richard Beeman tracing Paine s origins and illuminating the significance of these writings. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 128 PAGES $12.00

5 NEW TITLES AMERICAN HISTORY NIALL FERGUSON Kissinger: : The Idealist Drawing not only on Kissinger s hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives around the world, Niall Ferguson reveals that the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding. This essential account of an extraordinary life sheds dazzling new light on an entire era and recasts our understanding of the Cold War world. Always thorough, often surprising, at times deeply moving, this is an extraordinary biography of the most significant scholar-statesman-strategist of our time, by one of our most accomplished historians. Not to be missed. John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER 1,008 PAGES $39.95 ALSO AVAILABLE: WORLD ORDER BY HENRY KISSINGER, ADAM TOOZE The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, Yale historian Adam Tooze offers a bold new interpretation of the First World War and the birth of the American Century, focusing on the closing years of the conflict and its aftermath up to the Great Depression. All-embracing, powerfully argued, and deeply instructive, The Deluge is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the roots of America s fraught relationship with the world. Epic in scope, boldly argumentative, deftly interweaving military and economic narratives, The Deluge is a splendid interpretive history. The New York Times Book Review PENGUIN PAPERBACK 672 PAGES $20.00 JAMES M. McPHERSON Embattled Rebel Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Civil War From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy. McPherson reveals how Davis exercised a tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy, and that his close relationship with Robert E. Lee was one of the most effective military-civilian partnerships in history. The best concise book we have on the subject.mcpherson is our most distinguished scholar of the Civil War era. The New York Times Book Review Provocative.Quietly persuasive.there is an economical grace to [McPherson s] prose that makes the book a lightning-quick but lingering read that will appeal not only to Civil War buffs but also to those curious about the Southern presidency and government. The Wall Street Journal PENGUIN PAPERBACK 320 PAGES $17.00 ERWIN CHEMERINSKY The Case Against the Supreme Court In this devastating book, Chemerinsky, who has studied, taught, and practiced constitutional law for thirty years, shows how, case by case, the hallowed Court has been far more likely to uphold government abuses of power than to stop them. Drawing on a wealth of rulings, he reviews the Supreme Court s historic failures in key areas, including the refusal to protect minorities, the upholding of gender discrimination, and the neglect of the Constitution in times of crisis, from World War I through 9/11. "[Chemerinsky is] one of the shining lights of legal academia." The New York Times PENGUIN PAPERBACK 400 PAGES $18.00

6 PETER NABOKOV How the World Moves The Odyssey of an American Indian Family Peter Nabokov narrates the fascinating story of Edward Proctor Hunt, a member of New Mexico s Acoma Pueblo born in 1861, who narrated his version of the tribe s origin myth to Smithsonian Institution scholars. Placing the story of Hunt and his family within a multicultural and historical context, Nabokov chronicles Anglo/Indian relations over the last century and a half. [A] dazzling biography of a man whose life both spanned and exemplified extraordinary cultural changes. The Boston Globe VIKING HARDCOVER 608 PAGES $32.95 EDWARD PROCTOR HUNT The Origin Myth of Acoma Pueblo TRANSLATED BY HENRY WAYNE WOLF ROBE HUNT AND WILBERT BLUE SKY EAGLE HUNT INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY PETER NABOKOV A masterpiece of Pueblo Indian mythology, Hunt s version of his tribe's story of creation, migration, and ultimate residence, which he recited to Smithsonian Institution scholars in 1928, offers a unique window into Pueblo Indian cosmology and ancient history, revealing how a premodern society answered key existential questions and formed its customs. In this new, restored edition, Peter Nabokov renders this important document into a clear sequence, adds excerpted material from the original storytelling sessions, and explores the creation and roles of such myths in Pueblo Indian cultures. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 240 PAGES $16.00 ANDY BULL Speed Kings The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World The thrilling story of the four men who comprised the 1932 American bobsledding team and their race to win the gold medal in the most dangerous competition in Olympic history. The best kind of sports writing: a vibrant tapestry of personalities that also provides an intimate picture of major historical events. In this compelling tale of winter athletes competing on the world stage, we also glimpse the threads that pulled Europe and America inexorably toward a catastrophic war. A fine piece of narrative storytelling with great characters and excellent reportage. McKay Jenkins, University of Delaware AVERY HARDCOVER 304 PAGES $26.95 BEN YAGODA The B Side The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song Acclaimed cultural critic Ben Yagoda draws on previously untapped archival sources and scores of interviews to create a narrative and social history of the Great American Songwriting era, illuminating broad trends through a series of intertwined stories. "Highly original and shrewdly argued.anecdotal, illuminating, and persuasive." Gary Giddins, author of Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams and Visions of Jazz RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK 336 PAGES $16.00

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