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The Stakes of History
On the Use and Abuse of Jewish History for Life
A leading scholar of Jewish history’s bracing and challenging case for the role of the historian today Why do we study history? What is the role of the historian in the contemporary world? These questions...
Digital World War
Islamists, Extremists, and the Fight for Cyber Supremacy
A seasoned diplomat with deep knowledge of Islamist politics and digital innovation draws the first clear picture of the unprecedented impact of online networks Social media has dominated the discourse of...
Whistler
A Life for Art's Sake
A major new biography of James McNeill Whistler, one of most complex, intriguing, and important of America’s artists This engaging personal history dispels the popular notion of James McNeill Whistler (1834...
The Forgotten Americans
An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation
A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation’s economic inequalities One of the country’s leading scholars on economics and social...
Wright and New York
The Making of America’s Architect
A dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the city’s role in establishing the career of America’s most famous architect“Traces the transitive...
Livia
First Lady of Imperial Rome
Livia—wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius— wielded extraordinary power at the center of Roman politics. In this biography of Livia, the first in English, Anthony Barrett sets...
Hazlitt
The Mind of a Critic
Essayist, lecturer, and radical pamphleteer, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was the greatest of English critics and a master of the art of prose. This book is a superb appreciation of the man and his works, at once a...
Politics by Other Means
Higher Education and Group Thinking
Liberal education has been under siege in recent years. Far-right ideologues in journalism and government have pressed for a uniform curriculum that focuses on the achievements of Western culture. Partisans of the academic...
The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled
Imagined Rituals of Sex, Death, and Madness in a Biblical Forgery
In 1958, Bible scholar Morton Smith announced the discovery of a sensational manuscript–a second-century letter written by St. Clement of Alexandria, who quotes an unknown, longer version of the Gospel of Mark. When Smith...
The Land Is Full
Addressing Overpopulation in Israel
An assessment of how Israel’s extraordinary population growth undermines the country’s environment, social equity, and quality of life—and what must be done about it During the past sixty-eight years,...