Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, "The Great Rent Wars" tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords a

The problems with wealthy landowners and the rent they charged the tenant farmers were brought to a climax stage with the killing of the undersheriff of Delawar

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil

A major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th century to today.