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Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politicia...
Errol Morris
2020-06-13T09:07:10.000ZAlso recommended by
Sam Freedman
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families
Stories from Rwanda
In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority. Over the next three months, 800,000 Tutsis were murdered in the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Philip Gourevitch's haunting work is an anatomy of the killings in Rwanda, a vivid history o...
Errol Morris
2018-09-06T10:18:22.000ZAlso recommended by
Lisa Ling