The United States
Readers looking for clues as to how the Obama administration might seek to reposition U.S. foreign policy could can consult this book for a wide-ranging and candid presentation of some of the principal themes in American political thought at this critical moment.
Charles Mathewes and Christopher McKnight Nichols, eds.
Under the brilliant editorship of Mathewes and Nichols, this chronologically arranged and thematically linked collection of essays looks at a tradition that extends from Puritan jeremiads to modern-day prophecies of doom, resulting an illuminating tour of American intellectual history that startles, provokes, and engages.
Trudeau brings an encyclopedic knowledge of the copious controversial literature on this subject to this book and takes readers in Sherman's footsteps on a day-by-day account of the march, using journals, newspapers, and other sources to re-create everything from the weather to the conflicting guesses among the Confederates and the Yankees about where, exactly, Sherman was headed.
In a brilliant account of one of the oddest literary friendships in American history, Wineapple recounts the extraordinary story of two very different American writers: the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and the fiery abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
This memoir provides an illuminating picture of how embassies work to manage demanding and tense negotiations at pivotal points in history and is also a gripping account of a refugee's escape and an engaging peek at the social and cultural aspects of ambassadorial life.
