Few historians are as accomplished or as consistent as Bernard Bailyn, the Adams University professor emeritus at Harvard University and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for American history. READ MORE >>
The Paragon
Washington: A Life By Ron Chernow (Penguin, 904 pp., $40) READ MORE >>
The Other Founding
The Jamestown Project By Karen Ordahl Kupperman(Harvard University Press, 380 pp., $29.95) Captain John Smith: Writings, With Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of America Edited by James Horn (Library of America, 1,329 pp., $45) Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America By Benjamin Woolley (HarperCollins, 469 pp., $27.50) READ MORE >>
Blood and Soil
Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 By Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University Press, 411 pp. $45) READ MORE >>
