The Best Books in History from Free Press New in Hardcover
New in Paperback MY THOUGHTS BE BLOODY
THE NEW DEAL
The Bitter Rivalry That Led to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
A Modern History
By Michael hiltzik
By nora titone
“The best account I have ever read of the complex forces that led John Wilkes Booth to carry a gun into Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865.”
“Detailed and vividly written— destined to be the standard history for decades to come.”
—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals
—The Washington Post
PA PE RBAC K 97814165860 67| $16.0 0
HARDCOVE R 9781439154 489 | $30.0 0
e BOOK 9781416586166 | $9.99
e BOOK 9781439158951 | $14.99
BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE How America Ends Its Wars
eDiteD By Matthew Moten
“Provides insightful, provocative accounts of how America’s wars end, most of them without a bang or a whimper.”
COLUMBUS AND THE QUEST FOR JERUSALEM
—Allan R. Millett, Ambrose Professor of History, University of New Orleans
By carol Delaney
PA PE RBAC K 9781439194621 | $16.0 0
“A new and provocative interpretation of Columbus….[A] remarkable work of history, and one that is utterly accessible.”
e BOOK 9781439194638 | $14.99
A RENEGADE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
—Gordon S. Wood, author of The Idea of America
By thaDDeus russell
H ARDCOVE R 9781439102329 | $26.0 0
“[A] bold, controversial, original view of American history that will amuse, inspire, outrage, and most of all instruct readers.”
e BOOK 97814391099 60 | $12.99
—Alan Brinkley, Allan Nevins Professor of History, Columbia University PA PE RBAC K 9781416576136 | $16.0 0
CONQUERED INTO I LIBERTY
e BOOK 9781416571094 | $9.99
Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War
COLOSSUS
By eliot a. c cohen
The Turbulant, Thrilling Saga of the Building of Hoover Dam
“An insightful and creative new exploration of the distinctively American approach to warfare.”
By Michael hiltzik
“May inspire in readers a longing for something… that will summon up once again America’s famous self-confidence and daring.”
—Henry A. Kissinger
—John Steele Gordon, The Wall Street Journal
HARDCOVE R 97807432499 04 | $30.0 0
PA PE RBAC K 9781416532170 | $17.0 0 e BOOK 9781439181584 | $9.99
Award-Winning Paperbacks THELONIOUS MONK
ABIGAIL ADAMS
By Robin Kelley
Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize for Biography Paperback | 9781416546818 | $18.00 eBook | 9781451607369 | $13.99
The Life and Times of an American Original
Winner of a 2010 PEN Open Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the 2009 Jazz Journalists Association Award for Best Book Paperback | 9781439190463| $18.00 eBook | 9781439190494 | $13.99
RACE REBELS
Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class
By Robin Kelley
ASCAP award for Best Book on Music and Culture Paperback | 9780684826394| $24.95 eBook | 9781439105047 | $14.99
By Woody Holton
THE BITTER ROAD TO FREEDOM
The Human Cost of Allied Victory in World War II Europe
By William I. Hitchcock
Winner of the George Louis Beer Prize and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Paperback | 9781439123300 | $16.00 eBook | 9781416594543 | $12.99
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