Alan Taylor, Knopf, $35 (656p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4265-4
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Taylor (William Cooper’s Town) presents the War of 1812 not as the conventionally understood “second war for independence,” but as a civil war waged in the context of a U.S.-Canadian boundary barely separating “kindre
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Alan Taylor, Author Vintage Books USA $20 (576p) ISBN 978-0-679-77300-9
Taylor's account of politician William Cooper and his son, the novelist James Fenimore Cooper, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. (Sept.)
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Alan Taylor, Author Knopf Publishing Group $35 (549p) ISBN 978-0-394-58054-8
Ill-educated wheelright William Cooper (1754-1809), father of the novelist James Fenimore Cooper, rose to power and influence as a judge, land speculator, promoter of frontier settlement, U.S. congressman from upstate New York and owner of the...
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Alan Taylor, Author . Knopf $35 (542p) ISBN 978-0-679-45471-7
The study of borderlands is hot; Pulitzer and Bancroft prize–winning historian Taylor (William Cooper's Town
) offers a rich, sprawling history focusing on the Iroquois Six Nations of New York and Upper Canada during the era of the...
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Alan Taylor, Author, Eric Foner, Editor . Viking $29.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-87282-4
First in Viking's new five-volume series the Penguin History of the United States, edited by noted Columbia historian Eric Foner (Reconstruction), this book by Pulitzer Prize–winner Taylor (William Cooper's Town) challenges...
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Alan Taylor. Norton, $37.50 (736p) ISBN 978-0-393-08281-4
Taylor, professor of history at the University of Virginia and Pulitzer Prize–winner for The Internal Enemy, further cements his reputation with this comprehensive analysis of an American Revolution that was anything but the relatively decorous...
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Alan Taylor. Norton, $35 (592p) ISBN 978-1-324-00579-7
An unstable nation deflected its seething tensions and anxieties into an aggressive expansionism, according to this trenchant history of the fledgling U.S. Pulitzer winner Taylor (American Revolutions) focuses on the growth of American territory and
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Alan Taylor. Norton, $39.99 (560p) ISBN 978-1-324-03528-2
This sweeping account from Pulitzer winner Taylor (American Republics) examines the Civil War in a wider North American context. America’s conflict forms the backbone of Taylor’s narrative—he moves through the war’s epochal events with striking...
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