Machiavelli scholar paints a complex picture of the circumstances that shaped the man whose name became synonymous with political cunning. The term “Machiavellian” has established itself as a synonym for use of cunning and deceit... Read More

More than eighty prints executed over fifty years (from 1956 through 2006) tell the story of engraver Rosemary Kilbourn’s fascination with, and reverence for, both the practice of looking closely and the natural world that mostly... Read More

R. Murray Schafer is a brilliantly talented painter, musician, and writer—and he knows it, his ego exposed in this otherwise wonderfully written memoir. "My Life on Earth and Elsewhere" traces his growth as an artist, beginning with... Read More

George Tazoli is a young, successful floor trader at Forest & Vignes bank, an institution reeling from a portfolio of bad loans. He is also dating billionaire bank president Peter Donovan’s daughter, Sam. Although he is an... Read More

A double biography about two young women coming of age during the turbulent Revolutionary War, neither of whom knew each other, might have presented a disjointed and confusing narrative for the reader. But in this heavily researched... Read More

In this revealing analysis of the legal profession, researcher Susannah Sheffer interviews long-time capital defense attorneys with the goal of answering this question: How does it feel to know that your job is to save a person’s life?... Read More

In the 1930s, General Electric and an architectural magazine sponsored “The House for Modern Living” contest, inviting architects to design a house for “Mr. and Mrs. Bliss,” an imaginary couple with two children. The organizers... Read More

In Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa, Maximilian Forte dissects the purposes, justifications, myths, and consequences of NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011. Publicized for world consumption as a... Read More