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The author of American Nations examines the history of and solutions to the key American question: how best to reconcile individual liberty with the maintenance of a free society The struggle between individual rights and the good of the community as a wh
- A New Republic Best Book of the Year - The Globalist Top Books of the Year - Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction - Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is an endlessly fascinati
For fans of The Lost Kingdom , Black Sails and Crossbones comes a new rip-roaring history of the Golden Age of Piracy. . . In the early eighteenth century a number of the great pirate captains, including Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach and 'Black Sa
An entrancing tale of piracy colored with gold, treachery and double-dealing (Portland Press Herald), Pulitzer Prize-finalist Colin Woodward's The Republic of Pirates is the historical biography of the exploits of infamous Caribbean buccaneers. In the
A Christian Science Monitor best book of 2020 Relentlessly accessible. . . . This is that rare history that tells what influential thinkers failed to think, what famous writers left unwritten. --Jill Leovy, The American Scholar By the bestselling author o
"A world-class intellectual. . . . [Colin Woodard's] research can help Americans rediscover their common identity in spite of all the attempts to divide them." --Garry Kasparov "A powerful paradigm for understanding the defining hot but