Clay Risen, Author John Wiley & Sons $25.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-470-17710-5
Writer and editor Risen accounts for the lead-up to Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, and the waves of violence that swept the nation in its wake. Risen's work is eye-opening, emphasizing cagey analysis as well as a recreation of the...
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Clay Risen. Sterling Epicure, $24.95 (298p) ISBN 978-1-4027-9840-5
New York Times editor Risen (A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination) turns his attention to domestic whiskey and its many incarnations in this accessible and useful reference. Opening with an overview of the spirit and its...
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Clay Risen. Bloomsbury, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60819-824-5
On the 50th anniversary of the passing of the landmark Civil Rights Act, New York Times staff editor Risen (A Nation on Fire) takes an approach comparable to other similarly timed books on the subject: President Kennedy proposed the drafting of the...
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Clay Risen. Quercus, $29.99 (318p) ISBN 978-1-68144-107-8
Similar in tone and approach to his 2013 American Whiskey, Bourbon & Rye, New York Times deputy op-ed editor Risen covers everything in this entertaining and immersive guide to one of the world’s favorite liquors. The volume is organized...
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Clay Risen. Scribner, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4399-1
In this well-constructed account of future president Theodore Roosevelt and his “Rough Riders,” officially known as the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, journalist Risen argues that the “American Century” began not in 1900, but two years...
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Clay Risen. Scribner, $31 (480p) ISBN 978-1-9821-4180-6
Aiming to understand how Americans got to “where we are today,” journalist Risen (The Crowded Hour) dissects the history of anti-communist hysteria in this incisive account. The Red Scare was, in Risen’s telling, a backlash to President Roosevelt’s...
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