The bestselling author of "Washington's Crossing" and "Albion's Seed" offers a strikingly original history of America's founding principles. Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. 400+ illustrations, 250 in full color.

Nariah Boyd, the Bone Witch, has been lured away from her cozy cabin in the woods by her best friend Elidee to attend a Summer Solstice party. She’s not a party person, and she’s feeling less charitable when Elidee sets her up with a rich werewolf Nariah has met once before. This is feeling more like a date and less like a party every minute. But Nariah doesn’t go on dates. And the solstice is about to peak. Would a spirit emergency make this better? Probably not, but Nariah will take any excuse to leave the party early.

Mill predicted that “[t]he Liberty is likely to survive longer than anything else that I have written … because the conjunction of [Harriet Taylor’s] mind with mine has rendered it a kind of philosophic text-book of a single truth, which the changes progressively taking place in modern society tend to bring out in ever greater relief.” Indeed, On Liberty is one of the most influential books ever written, and remains a foundational document for the understanding of vital political, philosophical and social issues. In addition to its many useful appendices, this new edition includes a chronology, bibliography, and a substantial introduction which outlines Mill’s life and works, and sets this central work of 1859 in the context of both his own intellectual development and of the play of ideas and political forces in Victorian society.