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1 PAID JOSHUA FREEMAN GORDON S. WOOD American Empire The Idea of America The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home Reflections on the Birth of the United States Staten Island, NY Permit No. 169 Presort Std U.S. Postage In a series of illuminating essays, the preeminent historian explores the ideological origins of the American Revolution from Ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment and the founders attempts to forge a democracy. Academic Marketing Department Freeman has written a supremely intelligent narrative which traces the arc of America s economic growth, social and political conflicts, and recent decline since World War II better than any historian ever has. Michael Kazin, Georgetown University [The] essays in this book take up problems on constitutions and constitutionalism, democracies and republics, political power and human rights, always in Wood s careful and very creative way. The New York Times American Empire delivers far more than its title promises. Though superb on foreign affairs it is equally excellent on cultural, political and economic issues; indeed it s Freeman s ability to interweave national and international perspectives that make this, in my opinion, the best grand synthesis of postwar U.S. history we have. Mike Wallace, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Gotham AMERICAN HISTORY Intellectually expansive and elegantly woven, Wood s writings are the closest thing we have to an elegant mediation between today s readers and the founding generation. Library Journal PENGUIN PAPERBACK 400 PP $17.00 VIKING HARDCOVER 512 PP $36.00 COLIN WOODARD LOUISA THOMAS American Nations Conscience A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family A Test of Will and Faith in World War I In this journey through the history of our fractured continent, Woodard argues that North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, and that subsequent immigrants didn t confront or assimilate into an American or Canadian culture, but rather into one of the eleven distinct regional ones that spread over the continent. [A] triumphant work. Through the prism of the four Thomas brothers, the dramatic years at the turn of the twentieth century are recreated with such vitality that they seem to have happened only yesterday. Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals Daring...The thrust of this enthralling book lies with its title: through the experience of her forebears, Thomas examines how conscience fares when society considers it subversive. A compelling and informative attempt to make sense of the regional divides in North America in general and this country in particular...woodard provides a bracing corrective to an accepted national narrative that too often overlooks regional variations to tell a simpler and more reassuring story. The Washington Post With powerful narrative writing, great historical sensitivity, and a wealth of poignant letters, Louisa Thomas explores the bonds of family and the nature of conscience. Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein PENGUIN PAPERBACK 384 PP $16.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK 336 PP $16.00 NEW S 2013 KEVIN PHILLIPS MICHAEL WILLRICH Pox: 1775: An American History A Good Year for Revolution Historian Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775 Congress s belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England s rage militaire, and the exodus of British troops and expulsion of royal governors up and down the seaboard achieved a sweeping Patriot control of territory and local government that Britain was never able to overcome. The result is a dramatic narrative brimming with original insights that revolutionizes our understanding of America s origins. The untold story of how America s Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century. Important and deeply researched...[willrich] has made a lasting contribution to our understanding of the complex and tangled relationship between the powers and responsibilities of the state and the autonomy of individual men and women. Charles Rosenberg, Harvard University VIKING HARDCOVER 640 PP $36.00 Willrich melds meticulous research with elegant writing to create a richly textured social history about a horrible disease at the charged intersection of science, politics, race, and culture. Hampton Sides, author of Hellhound on His Tail PENGUIN PAPERBACK 432 PP $ OM/AC ADEMIC

2 PAID JOSHUA FREEMAN GORDON S. WOOD American Empire The Idea of America The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home Reflections on the Birth of the United States Staten Island, NY Permit No. 169 Presort Std U.S. Postage In a series of illuminating essays, the preeminent historian explores the ideological origins of the American Revolution from Ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment and the founders attempts to forge a democracy. Academic Marketing Department Freeman has written a supremely intelligent narrative which traces the arc of America s economic growth, social and political conflicts, and recent decline since World War II better than any historian ever has. Michael Kazin, Georgetown University [The] essays in this book take up problems on constitutions and constitutionalism, democracies and republics, political power and human rights, always in Wood s careful and very creative way. The New York Times American Empire delivers far more than its title promises. Though superb on foreign affairs it is equally excellent on cultural, political and economic issues; indeed it s Freeman s ability to interweave national and international perspectives that make this, in my opinion, the best grand synthesis of postwar U.S. history we have. Mike Wallace, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Gotham AMERICAN HISTORY Intellectually expansive and elegantly woven, Wood s writings are the closest thing we have to an elegant mediation between today s readers and the founding generation. Library Journal PENGUIN PAPERBACK 400 PP $17.00 VIKING HARDCOVER 512 PP $36.00 COLIN WOODARD LOUISA THOMAS American Nations Conscience A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family A Test of Will and Faith in World War I In this journey through the history of our fractured continent, Woodard argues that North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, and that subsequent immigrants didn t confront or assimilate into an American or Canadian culture, but rather into one of the eleven distinct regional ones that spread over the continent. [A] triumphant work. Through the prism of the four Thomas brothers, the dramatic years at the turn of the twentieth century are recreated with such vitality that they seem to have happened only yesterday. Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals Daring...The thrust of this enthralling book lies with its title: through the experience of her forebears, Thomas examines how conscience fares when society considers it subversive. A compelling and informative attempt to make sense of the regional divides in North America in general and this country in particular...woodard provides a bracing corrective to an accepted national narrative that too often overlooks regional variations to tell a simpler and more reassuring story. The Washington Post With powerful narrative writing, great historical sensitivity, and a wealth of poignant letters, Louisa Thomas explores the bonds of family and the nature of conscience. Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein PENGUIN PAPERBACK 384 PP $16.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK 336 PP $16.00 NEW S 2013 KEVIN PHILLIPS MICHAEL WILLRICH Pox: 1775: An American History A Good Year for Revolution Historian Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775 Congress s belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England s rage militaire, and the exodus of British troops and expulsion of royal governors up and down the seaboard achieved a sweeping Patriot control of territory and local government that Britain was never able to overcome. The result is a dramatic narrative brimming with original insights that revolutionizes our understanding of America s origins. The untold story of how America s Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century. Important and deeply researched...[willrich] has made a lasting contribution to our understanding of the complex and tangled relationship between the powers and responsibilities of the state and the autonomy of individual men and women. Charles Rosenberg, Harvard University VIKING HARDCOVER 640 PP $36.00 Willrich melds meticulous research with elegant writing to create a richly textured social history about a horrible disease at the charged intersection of science, politics, race, and culture. Hampton Sides, author of Hellhound on His Tail PENGUIN PAPERBACK 432 PP $ OM/AC ADEMIC

3 PAID JOSHUA FREEMAN GORDON S. WOOD American Empire The Idea of America The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home Reflections on the Birth of the United States Staten Island, NY Permit No. 169 Presort Std U.S. Postage In a series of illuminating essays, the preeminent historian explores the ideological origins of the American Revolution from Ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment and the founders attempts to forge a democracy. Academic Marketing Department Freeman has written a supremely intelligent narrative which traces the arc of America s economic growth, social and political conflicts, and recent decline since World War II better than any historian ever has. Michael Kazin, Georgetown University [The] essays in this book take up problems on constitutions and constitutionalism, democracies and republics, political power and human rights, always in Wood s careful and very creative way. The New York Times American Empire delivers far more than its title promises. Though superb on foreign affairs it is equally excellent on cultural, political and economic issues; indeed it s Freeman s ability to interweave national and international perspectives that make this, in my opinion, the best grand synthesis of postwar U.S. history we have. Mike Wallace, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Gotham AMERICAN HISTORY Intellectually expansive and elegantly woven, Wood s writings are the closest thing we have to an elegant mediation between today s readers and the founding generation. Library Journal PENGUIN PAPERBACK 400 PP $17.00 VIKING HARDCOVER 512 PP $36.00 COLIN WOODARD LOUISA THOMAS American Nations Conscience A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family A Test of Will and Faith in World War I In this journey through the history of our fractured continent, Woodard argues that North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, and that subsequent immigrants didn t confront or assimilate into an American or Canadian culture, but rather into one of the eleven distinct regional ones that spread over the continent. [A] triumphant work. Through the prism of the four Thomas brothers, the dramatic years at the turn of the twentieth century are recreated with such vitality that they seem to have happened only yesterday. Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals Daring...The thrust of this enthralling book lies with its title: through the experience of her forebears, Thomas examines how conscience fares when society considers it subversive. A compelling and informative attempt to make sense of the regional divides in North America in general and this country in particular...woodard provides a bracing corrective to an accepted national narrative that too often overlooks regional variations to tell a simpler and more reassuring story. The Washington Post With powerful narrative writing, great historical sensitivity, and a wealth of poignant letters, Louisa Thomas explores the bonds of family and the nature of conscience. Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein PENGUIN PAPERBACK 384 PP $16.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK 336 PP $16.00 NEW S 2013 KEVIN PHILLIPS MICHAEL WILLRICH Pox: 1775: An American History A Good Year for Revolution Historian Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775 Congress s belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England s rage militaire, and the exodus of British troops and expulsion of royal governors up and down the seaboard achieved a sweeping Patriot control of territory and local government that Britain was never able to overcome. The result is a dramatic narrative brimming with original insights that revolutionizes our understanding of America s origins. The untold story of how America s Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century. Important and deeply researched...[willrich] has made a lasting contribution to our understanding of the complex and tangled relationship between the powers and responsibilities of the state and the autonomy of individual men and women. Charles Rosenberg, Harvard University VIKING HARDCOVER 640 PP $36.00 Willrich melds meticulous research with elegant writing to create a richly textured social history about a horrible disease at the charged intersection of science, politics, race, and culture. Hampton Sides, author of Hellhound on His Tail PENGUIN PAPERBACK 432 PP $ OM/AC ADEMIC

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