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In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during,and after the Civil War, prize-winning historian Jacqueline Jonestransports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that fabledSouthern port city. Here is a subtle and rich social history thatweaves together stories of the everyday lives of blacks and whites,rich and poor, men and women from all walks of life confronting thetransformations that would alter their city forever. Deeplyresearched and vividly written, Saving Savannah is aninvaluable contribution to our understanding of the Civil Waryears.

In this thrilling narrative history of the Civil War’s moststrategically important campaign, Winston Groom describes thebloody two-year grind that started when Ulysses S. Grant begantaking a series of Confederate strongholds in 1861, climaxing withthe siege of Vicksburg two years later. For Grant and the Union itwas a crucial success that captured the Mississippi River, dividedthe South in half, and set the stage for eventual victory. Vicksburg, 1863 brings the battles and the protagonists ofthis struggle to life: we see Grant in all his grim determination,Sherman with his feistiness and talent for war, and Confederateleaders from Jefferson Davis to Joe Johnston to John Pemberton. Itis an epic account by a masterful writer and historian.

From the esteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisivevolume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates LatinAmerica’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the mosthighly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complexthreads of Colombia’s cocaine wars or assess the combination ofdespotism, charm, and political jiu-jitsu that has kept FidelCastro in power for more than 40 years. And no one else can writewith such acumen and sympathy about statesmen and campesinos,leftist revolutionaries and right-wing militias, and politicalfigures from Evita Peron to Mexico’s irrepressible president,Vicente Fox. Whether she is following the historic papal visit to Havana orstaying awake for a pre-dawn interview with an insomniacSubcomandante Marcos, Guillermoprieto displays both the passion andknowledge of an insider and the perspective of a seasoned analyst.Looking for History is journalism in the finest traditions of JoanDidion, V. S. Naipaul, and Ryszard Kapucinski: observant,