by Taylor Branch (1988)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning first volume of Taylor Branch’s landmark trilogy on the civil rights movement, charting Martin Luther King Jr.’s rise from a young Atlanta preacher to the moral epicenter of a nation.
Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson
Compiled from King’s own extensive autobiographical writings, speeches, and correspondence by historian Clayborne Carson, capturing his journey from Montgomery bus boycott to Nobel Peace Prize and his ultimate martyrdom.
S.C. Gwynne
S.C. Gwynne’s Pulitzer finalist epic chronicles the four-decade war between the Comanches—the most formidable horse warriors in history—and Spanish, Mexican, and American settlers for control of the Great Plains.
Adrian Goldsworthy
Adrian Goldsworthy’s definitive biography places Caesar in the full context of the Roman aristocracy, charting his brilliant military campaigns in Gaul, civil war against Pompey, and fateful assassination in the Senate.
David E. Hoffman
The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of how Reagan, Gorbachev, and secret Soviet scientists grappled with biological warfare labs, automated doomsday retaliation systems, and the nightmare of loose nuclear weapons.