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The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
by Christopher Benfey
When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective.
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Random House, hardcover, 352 pages / May 2003 / 25.95 /
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Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg
by James McPherson James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and arguably the best Civil War historian in the world, walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans.
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Crown Publishers, hardcover / May 2003 / 16.00 /
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