The Making of Modern Britain
by Andrew Marr | 
The Making of America
by W. Cleon Skousen | 
Last Call
by Daniel Okrent | 
Indian Summer
by Alex von Tunzelmann | 
A History of the World
by Andrew Marr | 
Haiti
by Laurent Dubois | 
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
by Lawrence James |
Vanished Kingdoms
by Norman Davies |
The Famine Plot
by Tim Pat Coogan |
The House of Government
by Yuri Slezkine | 
The Graves Are Walking
by John Kelly |
A Treasury of Great American Scandals
by Michael Farquhar |
The Second Coming of the KKK
by Linda Gordon | 
Freedom Summer
by Bruce Watson |
Midnight in Chernobyl
by Adam Higginbotham |
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
by Giles Milton |
The War That Ended Peace
by Margaret MacMillan | 
Auschwitz
by Laurence Rees | 
The Quartet
by Joseph J. Ellis | 
The First American
by H. W. Brands |
Presents the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. This book follows various political and economic stories, and deals with topics which include comedy, cars, Sixties anarchists, oil-men and punks.