Covering the first four decades of America, contains alphabetical entries on people, places, organizations, events, movements, laws, works of literature, and ot

“Audacious . . . offers a fierce critique of democracy’s most dangerous adversary: the abuse of democratic power by democratically elected chief executives.

The subject of Michael Warner's book is the rise of a nation. America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of reading public, where one becomes a

America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowle

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil