Slicks and Slickers
A question of which crime is worse: an ecological disaster or the responses in the aftermath.
Back in the Day
A collection of 30 issues
That Devil Rum
Recounting a truly bizarre period of American history in “Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.”
When the Dancing Stopped
Platform shoes, pounding beat, and sex—was that disco? Alice Echols reviews the recent past.
That Was Then and Now
An accessible appraisal of de Tocqueville and his magnum opus.
Wind Is Risin’
Historian Hampton Sides meticulously and vividly accounts for the assassination of Martin Luther King.
Uncle Sam’s Birds and Bees
A readable history of the federal government’s attempts at sex education.
There Was a Time
Music once was played on long-playing records and sold at hip and groovy stores.
The Supremes
A new, riveting history of F.D.R.’s epic battle to alter the Supreme Court.
The Souls of White Folk
Nell Irvin Painter unpacks the evanescent notion of race in “The History of White People.”
Dummies’ Guides for U.S.
Take your choice between two annotated guides to the U.S. Constitution.