Nonfiction

The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles

Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition

The New Wealth of Nations

Readers’ Liberation: The Literary Agenda

The Railroad and the Art of Place

Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906

Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity

Make a List: How A Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts

Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

Something Wonderful: Rogers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Basketball: Great Writing About America’s Game

In Chocolate We Trust: The Hershey Company Town Unwrapped

The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

The Going: A Meditation on Jewish Law

The One-Bottle Cocktail

The Away Game: The Epic Search for Soccer’s Next Superstars

The Presidency of Barack Obama

Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom

The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics

Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early Struggle for the Right to Fly

The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett’s Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox

Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit & the Figural Economy of American Industrialization

Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide