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NEW TITLES • AMERICAN HISTORY NEW TITLES • AMERICAN HISTORY NANCY ISENBERG GORDON S. WOOD White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson “[Isenberg] deftly explores the interplay of mockery and denial in treatments, historical From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a biography of two of America's most fas- and fictional, of hardships and limits in a supposed land of equal and abundant opportu- cinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose falling out changed its nity.”—Alan Taylor, University of Virginia, author of American Colonies course. PAID Presort Std “A magisterial study of the unjustly neglected poor whites who have helped to compose U.S. Postage "[Wood] turns his intellectual honesty and clear-eyed prose to the lives of Jefferson and Permit No. 169 the American identity in crucial fashion....This is breathtaking social history and daz- Staten Island, NY of Adams, giving us a brilliant portrait of their complicated relationship. This is an indis- zling cultural analysis at its best."—Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University pensable account of two men, of the country they built, and of why their legacies matter Penguin Paperback • 496 pages • 978-0-14-312967-7 • $17.00 even now. Bravo!"—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion Penguin Press Hardcover • 512 pages • 978-0-7352-2471-1 • $35.00 BLANCHE WIESEN COOK STEVEN HAHN Eleanor Roosevelt The War Years and After, 1939-1962, Volume 3 A Nation Without Borders “The completion of Blanche Wiesen Cook’s monumental and inspirational life of Elea- The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910 nor Roosevelt is a notable event….Keeping the focus on her actions and reactions, Cook In the latest volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, Pulitzer Prize- skillfully narrates the epic history of the war years.”—The New York Times Book Review AMERICAN winning historian Steven Hahn presents a provocative reinterpretation of the eight de- Penguin Paperback • 688 pages • 978-0-14-310962-4 • $20.00 cades surrounding the Civil War and leading into the twentieth century. “This tour de force bristles with fresh insights gained from often surprising vantage HISTORY points....A must read.”—Sven Beckert, Harvard University, author of Empire of Cotton ROBERT DALLEK • Viking Hardcover • 608 pages • 978-0-670-02468-1 • $35.00 Penguin Paperback • 608 pages • 978-0-14-312178-7 • $20.00 • December 2017 Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life This one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the bestselling biographer of JFK, focuses on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal maker. PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, ELIZABETH BROWN PRYOR “Sparing neither criticism nor admiration, Robert Dallek offers an FDR relevant to our New Titles for sharply divided nation: a master politician who gained the trust of most of his fellow Six Encounters with Lincoln Americans by empathizing eloquently with their problems and working himself to death A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons to solve them.”—Michael Kazin, Georgetown University Courses “Nuanced….Pryor paints a provocative historical portrait while testing common Viking Hardcover • 704 pages • 978-0-525-42790-2 • $40.00 assumptions about an American icon.”—The New Yorker 2017-2018 “Fascinating….The notion that democracy involves compromises resonates today.” —The New York Times Book Review SUSAN QUINN Viking Hardcover • 496 pages • 978-0-670-02590-9 • $35.00 Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady An account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok, which transformed and RON CHERNOW empowered both women to play significant roles in a tumultuous time in American history. “A powerfully moving and vital story that could not have been told in its day, and alters radi- Grant cally what we thought we knew about America’s most influential and best-loved First Lady.” Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one —Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Grant is a grand synthesis Penguin Paperback • 416 pages • 978-0-14-311071-2 • $18.00 PENGUIN of painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of all sides of Grant's life, ex- PENGUIN PENGUIN Courses plaining how this simple Midwesterner could at once be so ordinary and so extraordinary. 2017-2018 PUBLISHING GROUP ADAM COHEN Penguin Press Hardcover • 1104 pages • 978-1-59420-487-6 • $40.00 New Titles for for Titles New HISTORY www.penguin.com/academic PUBLISHING GROUP PUBLISHING Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, www.penguin.com/academic AMERICAN ANDREW CARROLL and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck “The story of an assault upon thousands of defenseless people seen through the lens of My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and a young woman, Carrie Buck, locked away in a Virginia state asylum. In meticulously the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War tracing her ordeal, Cohen provides a superb history of eugenics in America.”—David Carroll draws on a trove of little-known letters and diaries to create a vivid account of the Oshinksy, The New York Times Book Review (cover review) American experience in World War I, with General Pershing featured in the foreground. Penguin Paperback • 416 pages • 978-0-14-310999-0 • $18.00 “Carroll has produced an engaging and informative introduction to a war that has been largely relegated to the shadows by the subsequent global conflagration.”—Publishers Weekly Penguin Press Hardcover • 416 pages • 978-1-59420-648-1 • $30.00 NEW TITLES • AMERICAN HISTORY NEW TITLES • AMERICAN HISTORY NANCY ISENBERG GORDON S. WOOD White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson “[Isenberg] deftly explores the interplay of mockery and denial in treatments, historical From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a biography of two of America's most fas- and fictional, of hardships and limits in a supposed land of equal and abundant opportu- cinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose falling out changed its nity.”—Alan Taylor, University of Virginia, author of American Colonies course. PAID Presort Std “A magisterial study of the unjustly neglected poor whites who have helped to compose U.S. Postage "[Wood] turns his intellectual honesty and clear-eyed prose to the lives of Jefferson and Permit No. 169 the American identity in crucial fashion....This is breathtaking social history and daz- Staten Island, NY of Adams, giving us a brilliant portrait of their complicated relationship. This is an indis- zling cultural analysis at its best."—Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University pensable account of two men, of the country they built, and of why their legacies matter Penguin Paperback • 496 pages • 978-0-14-312967-7 • $17.00 even now. Bravo!"—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion Penguin Press Hardcover • 512 pages • 978-0-7352-2471-1 • $35.00 BLANCHE WIESEN COOK STEVEN HAHN Eleanor Roosevelt The War Years and After, 1939-1962, Volume 3 A Nation Without Borders “The completion of Blanche Wiesen Cook’s monumental and inspirational life of Elea- The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910 nor Roosevelt is a notable event….Keeping the focus on her actions and reactions, Cook In the latest volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, Pulitzer Prize- skillfully narrates the epic history of the war years.”—The New York Times Book Review AMERICAN winning historian Steven Hahn presents a provocative reinterpretation of the eight de- Penguin Paperback • 688 pages • 978-0-14-310962-4 • $20.00 cades surrounding the Civil War and leading into the twentieth century. “This tour de force bristles with fresh insights gained from often surprising vantage HISTORY points....A must read.”—Sven Beckert, Harvard University, author of Empire of Cotton ROBERT DALLEK • Viking Hardcover • 608 pages • 978-0-670-02468-1 • $35.00 Penguin Paperback • 608 pages • 978-0-14-312178-7 • $20.00 • December 2017 Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life This one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the bestselling biographer of JFK, focuses on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal maker. PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, ELIZABETH BROWN PRYOR “Sparing neither criticism nor admiration, Robert Dallek offers an FDR relevant to our New Titles for sharply divided nation: a master politician who gained the trust of most of his fellow Six Encounters with Lincoln Americans by empathizing eloquently with their problems and working himself to death A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons to solve them.”—Michael Kazin, Georgetown University Courses “Nuanced….Pryor paints a provocative historical portrait while testing common Viking Hardcover • 704 pages • 978-0-525-42790-2 • $40.00 assumptions about an American icon.”—The New Yorker 2017-2018 “Fascinating….The notion that democracy involves compromises resonates today.” —The New York Times Book Review SUSAN QUINN Viking Hardcover • 496 pages • 978-0-670-02590-9 • $35.00 Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady An account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok, which transformed and RON CHERNOW empowered both women to play significant roles in a tumultuous time in American history. “A powerfully moving and vital story that could not have been told in its day, and alters radi- Grant cally what we thought we knew about America’s most influential and best-loved First Lady.” Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one —Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S.