On the eve of World War I, a band of Indian immigrants living in the United States hatched an audacious plan to liberate their homeland from British colonial rule. Founded by a group of student radicals at UC Berkeley, the Ghadar movement recruited thousands of supporters via its underground newspaper and sent hundreds of freedom fighters across the Pacific in an attempt to smuggle guns and seditious literature into India. With the world descending into global war, the movement quickly became a geopolitical flash point.

Part of a larger narrative of immigration, Let My Country Awake tells a story of a nation filled with contemporary resonance as it explores the question: What does it mean to be an American?

In November 1942, American spymaster Allen Dulles slipped into Switzerland just before Nazi forces sealed the border. His mission: to report on the inner workings of the Third Reich. Code-named Agent 110 by the OSS, he was astounded to find a network of Germans—industrialists, students, diplomats and generals—conspiring to overthrow Hitler and negotiate a surrender to end World War II.

On back roads, in bedrooms, and high in the Alps, Dulles plotted with his ring of renegades who were risking and losing their lives. Yet Dulles was much more than a spy. At a time when the Soviet Union was an American ally, he was driven by the conviction that Moscow aimed to dominate postwar Europe and saw in the underground a chance to thwart communist ambitions.

Agent 110, An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII brings this dangerous, dark period alive with chilling tales of spies, idealists and traitors matching wits in a vicious world. Dulles himself would eventually lead the CIA during the Cold War, driven by his wartime distrust of the Soviets.

In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered the nation’s confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging new world order of what would come to be known as the American Century.

The President and the Assassin is the story of the momentous years leading up to that event, and of the very different paths that brought together two of the most compelling figures of the era: President William McKinley and Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who murdered him.