This is how he built and dominated New York—before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done.

This is how he built and dominated New York—before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done.

In this spellbinding book, renowned religious scholar Elaine Pagels elucidates the mysteries and meanings of these sacred texts both in the world of the first Christians and in the context of Christianity today.

Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own.

Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has meant different things at different times to different groups of Americans.

An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War.

Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own.

Moses is pictured as idealist reformer and political manipulator as his rise to power and eventual domination of New York State politics is documented This is the first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man-an ...

The book Nietzsche called "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.

A work of immense and richly nuanced learning, The Refinement of America newly illuminates every facet of both our artifacts and our values.