"[Yemen Chronicle] focuses on the themes of violence, honor, and hospitality in Arabic tribal society, and cultural misunderstandings and the efforts of a nonnative to be accepted in another culture . . . I highly recommend [Yemen Chronicle] to students of anthropology, Yemen, the Middle East, and anyone who has tried to live in a foreign culture."—David M. Witty, The Journal of Military History

"Thomas Desjardin vividly narrates a powerful tale of endurance, folly, and courage along the wild rivers and through the dense forests of Maine and Quebec. He combines thorough research with a visceral sense of place and season to render powerful images of suffering and triumph in a land of haunting beauty and cruel indifference to human effort. This evocative story plunges readers into the experience of revolutionary war."—Alan Taylor, Professor of History at University of California-Davis and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

"Diski has fascinating—and entertaining—things to say about the differences between the ’60s generation and their parents ('we really didn’t make the distinction between work and recreation that shaped our parents’ daily existence'), drugs (eventually 'getting stoned stopped feeling like I was doing something'), the sexual revolution ('sex was a way of being polite to those who suggested it or who got into your bed'), communes ('sharing the washing-up and each other’s lovers' meant 'a terrible mess and a lot of anger') and the difference between America and her native Britain ('we had only a generational war to fight') . . . A sense of deep disappointment pervades The Sixties. Diski concludes that the decade produced little in the way of transcendent art—'the music, however, was undeniably as great as we thought it was'— and that, contrary to the slogan, frequently 'the personal was the personal.' Although she sees some lasting effects of the '60s, and especially of gay liberation, she concludes that 'wherever you look, over the past 40 years, nationalism and capitalism have triumphed,' and that 'most of us who had the good fortune to be part of the '60s are plain discouraged.' Still, [Diski] leaves you with plenty to think about, and wanting more."—Elsa Dixler, The New York Times Book Review

“Those who think themselves familiar with the civil rights movement in the United States are in for a welcome surprise.  The Good Doctors by prize-winning historian John Dittmer tells the heroic, and previously overlooked, story of an organization that stood at the barricades in every civil rights struggle from Selma to Chicago to Wounded Knee, battling inequality and racism in the medical profession while setting up clinics that today reach hundreds of thousands of underserved patients.  The Good Doctors should be required reading for every American who views quality health care as a basic human right.”—David Oshinsky, author of Polio: An American Story, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History

“Challenging a great deal of modern scholarship, Clash of Extremes promises to be the most talked-about book in years on the origins of the Civil War.”—Daniel W. Crofts, The College of New Jersey

"[Ehrenreich's] history of collective joy . . . is lurid and alluring . . . Combining thorough research with her tart, skeptical eye, Ehrenreich constructs a vivid narrative of early Christianity and 'deliberately nurtured techniques of ecstasy' . . . [Dancing in the Streets] presents a solid and provocative academic overview of its subject."—Mark Coleman, Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Once in a while a book comes along to remind us that history has no gods, that the past is less fossil than textbooks suggest and America more vibrant than a mere list of principles. John Ferling's Ascent of George Washington is just such a book: a fresh, clear-eyed portrait of the full-blooded political animal that was George Washington . . . In John Ferling’s eminently readable, landmark interpretation, we cannot help but marvel at the man.”—Marie Arana, The Washington Post

"The everyday lives of Russians between the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 is the subject of Orlando Figes' illuminating and profoundly moving new book. Filled with the stories of hundreds of survivors, many of which make for desperately painful reading, The Whisperers offers the most thorough account so far of what it meant to live under Soviet totalitarianism."—Douglas Smith, The Seattle Times

"Against the tradition of combat memoirs, [Finkel] chooses to keep himself out of the action, so that The Good Soldiers sometimes reads more like a novel than a reporter’s journal, with Finkel as the omniscient narrator . . . The Good Soldiers is more than a splendid account of men in combat. It will stand as the classic book about an extremely challenging war."—Daniel Ford, Durham, New Hampshire, Michigan War Studies Review

“Here is a book from a leading scholar that cuts through the ignorance, the denial, and the prejudice to explain how we got stuck with a policy that was doomed to fail. Our military and our nation owe Frank a debt of gratitude.”—Dr. Lawrence J. Korb, former Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan