Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties is the book you pick up when the official story of the Manson murders stops making sense. After … Read more
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann is more than a survival epic; it’s a razor-edged inquiry into how power and people manufacture truth, from … Read more
The History of Rome, Vol. V solves a single, urgent problem: how a five-hundred-year republican system collapsed into a military monarchy and what social, military, and cultural forces made that … Read more
Rome didn’t just conquer; it standardized a continent. If you’ve ever wondered how one city turned agrarian inequality, foreign wars, and legal procedure into a machine that outlived its founders, … Read more
So much of early Rome is fogged by legend; Mommsen’s Volume 1 shows how geography, institutions, and law—not miracles—built a city that became a state. He answers the core problem: … Read more
The Lady in Red peels back Georgian England’s gilded curtain to show a marriage, a courtroom and a culture built on property, gender and spectacle — and solves the puzzle … Read more