Nicholas Guyatt: 3 books
Have a Nice Doomsday
Why Millions of Americans are Looking
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In Have a Nice Doomsday, Nicholas Guyatt searches for the truth behind a startling statistic: 50 million Americans have come to believe that the apocalypse will take place in their lifetime. They're convinced that, any day now, Jesus will snatch up his followers and spirit them to heaven. The rest...
Bind Us Apart
How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from the Revolution through...
Angry Nation
Turkey since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Since its re-emergence as nation-state in 1923, Turkey has often looked like an odd appendix to the West situated in the borderlands of Europe and the Middle East, economically backward, inward looking, marred by political violence, yet a staunch NATO ally, it has been eyed with suspicion by both...