Zachary Karabell Books
The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
"It was the last presidential campaign in which Americans truly had a choice across the ideological spectrum, from the far Right to the far Left. And the winner, according to pundits and pollsters...
Read MoreParting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal
By Zachary Karabell, Name Missing
Tells the story of the creation of the Suez Canal--heralded as a symbol of progress that would unite nations--and the part played by its driving force, French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Les...
Read MoreParting the Desert
Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world.The dre...
Read MoreA visionary nation
"America is a nation based on an idea. For nearly four centuries, Americans have shared the conviction that a perfect world is within reach. Running through our history is the presumption that we c...
Read MoreKennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes
By Zachary Karabell, Jonathan Rosenberg
"In this book, Jonathan Rosenberg and Zachary Karabell present the story of desegregation at Ole Miss; the effort by Martin Luther King, Jr. to dismantle Jim Crow in Birmingham, Alabama; the March...
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