American History Books
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-t…
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disorder…
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the …
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 No …
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip assemblers, showing how Northern California crea…
The Wright Brothers
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic st…