The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World PB_Gift_Guide Hailed as one of the

Hailed as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time (Time Magazine) and as a classic of New Journalism

it becomes clear that in order to emerge from erasure

only to meet again under the shadow of the Third Reich—and then again at the Nuremburg trials—they find themselves divided by war and differing ideals

Straddling Ivy’s contemporary suburban town and her mother’s magic-drenched 1990s Chicago

Her only friend is Stig

The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World PB_Gift_Guide Hailed as one of theLonglisted for the Cundill History Prize Profiled in The New Yorker New York Times Book Review * Editors' Choice Vivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions. A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying