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A wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of “one of the most sensational trials in American history” (New York Times Book Review).On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she’d had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon ... Read More about Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal

“An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one.” —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post“The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a sequel in mind. The bar is set very high.” —David Oshinsky, The New Yor... Read More about The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History.A national bestseller and "hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant" (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation of modern American thought.The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massach... Read More about The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book—named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal  “Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Ox... Read More about The New Yale Book of Quotations

Over the past 25 years, New York-based artist Neil Goldberg (born 1963) has created videos, photographs, mixed-media works and performance pieces on the subjects of embodiment, sensing, mortality and the everyday--or, as the New York Times has noted, "the extraordinary, glimpsed in the ordinary." ... Read More about Neil Goldberg: Other People's Prescriptions

At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons for the remarkable commercial successes of Wil... Read More about American Studies