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The story you are about to read began as a lunchtime lecture to the staff at one of the world’s great residential design firms. It grew into a lavishly illustrated, highly readable chronicle of the classic American style variously known as Craftsman, Mission, or Arts & Crafts. The visionaries behind the Craftsman movement generated a whole new sense of what a home should look and feel like. They created sanctuaries from the hurly-burly of urban life, democratized beauty, and ushered in the crucial elements of what we now consider desirable in domestic life. Meet the people, ideas, and ...

This imaginative re-creation tells the lost true story of three brothers who turned America against human bondage. During the Jacksonian era when our politics were harshly partisan, ferociously personal, and often gridlocked, the Tappan brothers pioneered new ways of solving national problems—through philanthropic gifts, mass-persuasion campaigns, courtroom battles, religious appeals, and skillful culture reform. Set in an emerging New York City, amidst grave social tumult and the Erie Canal economic boom, the story churns through the making of vast fortunes, frontier explorations, grand ...

A vivid sketch of White House work in an age of resistance. Perfectly timed to the unfolding of the most consequential Presidential administration in decades, this narrative by a former West Wing aide provides a brisk portrayal of the professional demands and personal pressures of service in the White House. The story is told in three quite different and intertwined styles: There is the absorbing transcript of an intimate conversation in which two historians quiz the author about his experiences in Washington. A string of lucid documentary chapters chronicle events at the highest levels of ...

Russia invades Ukraine and threatens other nations hoping to escape its orbit. China spends a trillion dollars on its Belt & Road program that manipulates poor countries all across the globe. Other autocracies like Iran and North Korea devote large resources to military intimidation, cyberattacks, and disinformation campaigns. How can the U.S. respond? Via costly military interventions? Dubiously effective nation-building by our government? Are there other options? In this short, fascinating book, an experienced embedded reporter sojourns through Serbia, the Caucasus, Kurdistan, and other ...

Middle America is in rebellion today. Ordinary people are objecting to bureaucratic coercion, manipulations of speech, redefinitions of sex and family, racial nostrums, strictures on economic freedom, and pressure to conform with new progressive narratives and dictates. Similar revolts are taking place in other developed nations. But America has a special tradition of popular backlash against heavy-handed grandees. This book pulls together rich arguments and evidence from 1994 to 2024 to show that the uprising which returned Donald Trump to the White House has been building for three ...