In “American Reich,” the former New York Times journalist Eric Lichtblau dissects the culture of hate that led to the death of a gay man in Southern California.
As Katie Rogers writes in “American Woman,” Jill Biden and other recent spouses are still locked in a role unlikely to change until the presidency does.
Taken together, two new books tell the century-long story of the revolutionary ideals that transformed the United States, and the counterrevolutionaries who fought them.