The answers revealed in this eye-opening book are not only surprising but also illuminate a story of unexpected triumph over a multitude of political and financial obstacles, including fraudulent real estate deals, overextended financiers, ...

"The little known story of perhaps the most productive Congress in US history, the First Federal Congress of 1789-1791.

In this book, Bordewich transports us to the front lines, in the hamlets of the former Confederate States and in the marble corridors of Congress, reviving an unsung generation of grassroots Black leaders and key figures such as crusading ...

Bound for Canaan tells the stories of men and women who risked their lives to build the Underground Railroad.

The spellbinding story behind the longest debate in U.S. Senate history: the Compromise of 1850, which brought together Senate luminaries on the eve of the Civil War in a desperate effort to save the Union.

The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the conflict.

In the face of a new lightly romanticized view of Native Americans, Killing the White Man's Indian bravely confronts the current myths and often contradictory realities of tribal life today.

Complemented by an introduction by Lawrence Hill, the acclaimedauthor of Any Known Blood, Fergus M. Bordewich's masterfulnarrative weaves together the personal stories of men and women with thepolitics of slavery and abolition to show how ...

For Fergus Bordewich, entering the labyrinth that is China and finding vestiges of a rapidly vanishing world was the challenge of a lifetime, and his eye-opening revelations offer a China to tantalize the eye and the imagination.

So begins My Mother's Ghost, veteran reporter Fergus Bordewich's anguished attempt to come to terms with the emotional chaos his life was thrown into with his mother's death. For all practical purposes, Fergus's childhood was over.