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Penguin BooksWe challenged historians @natphilbrick and @catherinegracekatz to connect their new books: THE RUSH and SHADOW BEFORE THE FLAME 📚 In THE RUSH, @nytimes bestselling author, National Book Award winner, and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States — and how California’s rise helped push a fractured nation toward war. The result is a clear, human story of how a scramble for wealth reshaped ideas of freedom, labor, and belonging. In SHADOW BEFORE THE FLAME, acclaimed historian Catherine Grace Katz unites groundbreaking research with thrilling narrative that situates the famous Hindenburg disaster squarely on the collision course between the decade’s two prevailing currents. Above all, it is a story of humanity and of lives forever changed by a moment that served as a harbinger for the global conflagration yet to come. Pick up your copies of THE RUSH and SHADOW BEFORE THE FLAME today!
On the profile · Oct 19, 2026