Covering 13.8 billion years in some 100 pages, a concise, wryly intelligent history of everything, from the Big Bang to the advent of human civilization. With w

From the Big Bang and the creation of the stars, through the evolution of plants and animals, the dawn of the dinosaurs, and on toward the first humans, early c

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American ce