Penguin Random House: Fascinating Historical Finds
It’s Time for a Look Back in History
Choose your own history adventure with one of these great reads.
White Shoe
By John Oller
The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with Big Business, and Wall Street the center of the financial world.
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Fantasyland
By Kurt Andersen
In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what’s happening in our country today—this post-factual, “fake news” moment we’re all living through—is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character.
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
By Tyler Kepner
From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition
By Bill Bryson
This new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson’s exciting, informative journey into the world of science.
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The Woman’s Hour
By Elaine Weiss
Soon to be a major television event, the nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote.
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Presidents of War
By Michael Beschloss
From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America’s wartime chief executives.
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