In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation.

From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the missing longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called The…

"Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America's best historians; it's fair to say she's one of its best writers too." -Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times

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Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history.

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An extensively illustrated, comprehensive exploration of the architecture and development of Old Cambridge from colonial settlement to bustling intersection of town and gown.