The Reading Room
On The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto is the most consequential pamphlet of the modern era after Common Sense, and it belongs on any honest shelf about the political idea, whatever you make of...
On The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto is the most consequential pamphlet of the modern era after Common Sense, and it belongs on any honest shelf about the political idea, whatever you make of...
On Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
It is the best memoir any American president has left, and it was written by a dying man against the clock. Ulysses S.
On Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
It is the best memoir any American president has left, and it was written by a dying man against the clock. Ulysses S.
On The Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural
The republic's purpose stated in 272 words, and then its conscience in 700.
On The Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural
The republic's purpose stated in 272 words, and then its conscience in 700.
On Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin found a fresh way into the most written-about figure in American history by looking at the men around him.
On Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin found a fresh way into the most written-about figure in American history by looking at the men around him.
On The Broken Constitution
Noah Feldman's The Broken Constitution, published in 2021, tells the story of how Abraham Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to save the country, and in doing so remade what...
On The Broken Constitution
Noah Feldman's The Broken Constitution, published in 2021, tells the story of how Abraham Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to save the country, and in doing so remade what...
On Imagined Communities
Why are people willing to die for a nation, a thing they cannot see, made up overwhelmingly of strangers they will never meet? Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, published in 1983,...
On Imagined Communities
Why are people willing to die for a nation, a thing they cannot see, made up overwhelmingly of strangers they will never meet? Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, published in 1983,...