American history
“A Great Disorder ” is brisk, bold, and thought-provoking, but the volume’s muddled concept of myth does it in.
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Samuel Adams, a superb political organizer who helped turn the Boston Massacre into a cause célèbre, was more conservative than modern admirers, including biographer Stacy Schiff, want to admit.
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American Radicals is as revealing, riveting, and well-researched as any work of history that I have read in recent years.
Read MoreIn The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, H. L. Mencken comes off as a marvelously mellowed master, his trademark savagery smoothed over, its energy focused on generating a pungently picturesque vision of a vanished America.
Read MoreIn this book, Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson explores the (d)evolution of the Republican Party from its founding in 1854 through the presidency of George W. Bush.
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Author Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on “Democracy Awakening”
“The book in many ways is a defense of liberalism. It’s a defense of the idea that that’s really what the government should do in a democracy. The liberal consensus is what happens when you actually let people vote.”
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