Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone

An ambitious and stylish history of human civilization told through hundreds of unheard and forgotten voices, by the acclaimed author of The Open Veins of Latin America

“Nothing less than a capsule history of the human race....Brutally, precisely documented.” —New York Times Book Review

The old adage says that history is written by the victors. Mirrors is an unofficial history of the world seen through history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten. Told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, G...