President Carter: The White House Years by Stuart E. Eizenstat
/A firsthand account and comprehensive history of one of our most underappreciated Presidents.
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A firsthand account and comprehensive history of one of our most underappreciated Presidents.
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Read MoreA deeply detailed panoramic of how fundamentally the war changed the world.
Read MoreA clear, fast-paced history heavily laden with implicit warnings.
Read MoreThe Law of Blood does invigorating work in attempting to explain how such a wildly repulsive ideology could take hold in the hearts and minds of ordinary people.
Read MoreThis lively narrative of religious and political history attempts to chronicle the improbable success story of the last 220 years of the papacy.
Read MoreAn appealingly elastic framework in which to retell the outsized stories of the history of St. Petersburg.
Read MoreThis is the colorful material insanely prolific historical novelist Victoria Holt used for one of her best novels, 1979's My Enemy, the Queen.
Read MoreA brutally sad story, despite the multifaceted affections humans have had for horses over the centuries.
Read MoreThe author closely follows the literary and archeological trail through the long history of the Republic.
Read MoreA readable and stimulating history of London during the final years of King Charles II.
Read MoreA compelling and comprehensive history of the civilization that gave birth to democracy, philosophy, and science.
Read MoreAn insight-filled guide for future presidents on the most important issues facing a new administration in their first year.
Read MoreA picture of what decades of persecution will do to the moral fiber of a nation surrounded by enemies.
Read MoreThe Trump presidency is about Trump. Period. Full stop.
Read MoreTime has a funny way of turning scoundrels into icons.
Read MoreAs Charles Homer Haskins pointed out in his humbly durable masterpiece The Renaissance of the 12th Century, the Dark Ages weren’t dark at all. Fiercely cold most of the time (due to a bout of climate change), but not dark in the sense of shuttered. Beknighted, but not benighted.
The great scholar John Addington Symonds (whose absence from bookstore shelves bloody well qualifies him for honoring here in Absent Friends, somewhere down the line) put it very prettily when he observed that any age without Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael must necessarily seem dark. The ostentatious showboating of the Italian Renaissance is the problem in a nutshell when it comes to thinking about the innocent ages that come before.
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