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A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey’s role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America   Hubert Humphrey was liberalism’s most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrifice. As a young politician in 1948, he defied segregationists and forced the Democratic Party to commit itself to civil rights. As a senator in 1964, he made good on that commitment by helping pass the Civil Rights Act. But as Lyndon B. Johnson’s v...

Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884) was a United States Senator from Louisiana, the first Jewish member of the Senate, and the Attorney General of the Confederacy. This biography grapples with the difficult truth that Benjamin, one of the greatest legal minds in the United States, was a slave-owner who defended slave-owners.

Penetrating, detailed, and very readable. . . . A splendid biography." -- Wall Street Journal Few figures in American history have held as many roles in public life as John Quincy Adams. The son of John Adams, he was a brilliant ambassador and secretary of state, a frustrated president, and a dedicated congressman who staunchly opposed slavery. In John Quincy Adams, scholar and journalist James Traub draws on Adams's diaries, letters, and writ...

An award-winning journalist and author examines the history of liberalism, from the American and French revolutions through the writings of John Stuart Mill and early 20th-century American progressives to its uncertain future.

As Times Square turns 100, New York Times Magazine contributing writer James Traub tells the story of how this mercurial district became one of the most famous and exciting places in the world. The Devil's Playground is classic and colorful American history, from the first years of the twentieth century through the Runyonesque heyday of nightclubs and theaters in the 1920s and '30s, to the district's decline in the 1960s and its glittering cor...

A compilation of essays by academics, policy experts, United Nations experts, and journalists on the most important geopolitical issues in the world today, this edition is aimed at academics and the foreign affairs community.

Traub recounts the dramatically entwined history of Kofi Annan and the U.N. from 1992 to the present. In Annan he sees a conscientious idealist given too little credit for advancing causes like humanitarian intervention, an honest broker crushed between American conservatives and Third World opponents, and a U.N. careerist who has absorbed that culture and cannot, in the end, escape its limitations.

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Traub, a journalist for "The New York Times Magazine, " traces the history of America's democratic evangelizing and describes the rise and fall of the Freedom Agenda during the Bush years.