Helps understand the present moment in American politics by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear, and presidents and citizens came together to defeat the forces of anger, intolerance, and extremism.

Spending time with Israel’s entrepreneurs and political leaders, soldiers and students, scientists and activists, the writers discover Israel’s greatest innovation is its society itself and provide surprising insights into how we can confront the crisis of community, human connectedness and purpose in modern life.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Rumor of War traces his 2011 road trip from the southernmost to the northernmost points of the United States to experience firsthand the country's vast diversity and political tensions in the face of a historic economic recession.

"Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European colonization. In Whose Ruins tells another story: winding through the US landscape, from Native American earthworks in West Virginia to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico, this history is a tour of sites that were mined for an empire's power. Showing the hidden costs of ruthless economic...

The Farewell Address of America's first president conveys warnings about the forces Washington believed were endangering the nation's democracy and is complemented by text placing the address against a backdrop of the dynamics of its time.