Morning Edition cohost Steve Inskeep presents a riveting account of a single harrowing day in December 2009 that sheds light on the constant tensions in Karachi, Pakistan when a bomb blast ripped through a Shia religious procession, followed by the torching of hundreds of businesses in Karachi s commercial district. Through interviews with a broad cross section of Karachi residents, Inskeep peels back the layers of that terrible day. It is the beginning, and a constant touchstone, in a journey across the city s epic history and its troubled present Thrilling and deeply...

The story of the Cherokee removal has been told many times, but never before has a single book given us such a sense of how it happened and what it meant, not only for Indians, but also for the future and soul of America. "The Washington Post"
Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy.
One man we recognize: Andrew Jackson war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South whose first major initiative as...