History

Matthew Brzezinski, Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age.

Kevin Cook, The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA’s Challenger Disaster.

Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, 102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers.

Lee Edwards, The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America.

David Fromkin, Kosovo Crossing: American Ideals Meet Reality on the Balkan Battlefields.

James Glanz and Eric Lipton, City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center.

Gordon M. Goldstein, Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam.

Gershom Gorenberg, The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977.

Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic.

Benjamin Carter Hett, The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War.

Stephen Kinzer, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War.

Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.

Stephen Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.

Stephen Kinzer, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire.

James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington.

Brian Lamb, Booknotes: Stories from American History.

James Mann, The Great Rift: Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the Broken Friendship That Defined an Era.

Dennis McAuliffe Jr., The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: An American History.

Karl E. Meyer, The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland.

Giles Milton, Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World.

Charles R. Morris, The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Created the American Supereconomy.

Peter L. W. Osnos, LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail.

Todd S. Purdum, An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Parties, Two Presidents, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson, eds., Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan That Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America.

Brian VanDeMark, Kent State: An American Tragedy.