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“Dreams of El Dorado is in a sense the culmination of Brands’ love affair with the history of the American West.”

The main title of this massive tome comes from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.

“George Weigel is the most interesting and authoritative American scholar and analyst of the Roman Catholic Church.”

“The West needs to overcome its amnesia with respect to Maoism’s global ambitions. Lovell’s study of Maoism as a global history could not be more timely.”

A year before the more famous “bridge too far” at Arnhem in The Netherlands, the “Red Devils” of the British Parachute Regiment traded blows with the “Green Devils” of the German Fallschirmjaeg

“If people read An Impossible Dream: Reagan, Gorbachev, and a World Without the Bomb and gather its deeper lessons, perhaps the race to Armageddon can be slowed if not stopped and

"Ghost Ships grabs the reader with action from the beginning and keeps the adventure going throughout."

"Einstein's War is a parallel biography of the great thinker and Arthur Stanley Eddington who used Einstein's work to heal the world scientific co

“Had Harper Lee completed The Reverend, would it have become the unparalleled great American true crime book? We’ll never know.

“There could not be a better subject for a work of graphic nonfiction (to use the author’s term) than the great Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.”

"In Sea People, Pacific historian Christina Thompson tells of the European discovery of the Polynesians and the island people's opening to the wor