“If you read only one American history book this summer . . . make it David S. Reynolds’s Two Ships.” —George Will, Washington Post “Brilliant, provocative . . . Essential reading for today’s polarized times.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "A dazzling survey of three centuries of American history." —Maureen Corrigan, NPR “Wonderfully executed. . . . A new and compelling way to explore the infinite complexities of the American story.” —Jon Meacham A revelatory history of American division through the prism of two ships once widely used as symbols in the war of ideas between North and South—a struggle whose echoes remain with us today In the bitterly polarized decades leading up to the American Civil War, it was commonplace to argue that America’s strife could be traced back to the arrival of two ships, less than a year apart— Read more