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The Woman Warrior
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston, published by Vintage Books in 1975. It is semi-autobiographical, incorporating many elements of fiction. The story explores ethnicity and gender roles,...
Edith Wharton: A Biography
Edith Wharton: A Biography is a book by R. W. B. Lewis.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson is a book by Walter Jackson Bate.
Facts of life
Facts of life is a book by Maureen Howard.
Munich
Munich is a book by Telford Taylor.
The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book written by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002). The book is a history and critique of the methods and motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that "the social and economic...
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
Walter Lippmann and the American Century is a book by Ronald Steel.
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power is a book by Robert Caro.
Price of Power
Price of Power is a book by Seymour Hersh.
Weapons and hope
Weapons and hope is a book by Freeman Dyson.
Common Ground
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families is a book by J. Anthony Lukas examining race relations in Boston, Massachusetts through the prism of desegregation busing. It received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non...
War Without Mercy
War Without Mercy is a book by John W. Dower.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, a book written by Richard Rhodes, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. The 900-page book is a narrative of the history of the people and...
Parting the waters
Parting the waters is a book by Taylor Branch.
Broken Cord
Broken Cord is a book by Dorris Cord.
The content of our character
The content of our character is a book by Shelby Steele.
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women is the title of a 1991 nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Faludi, which argues for the existence of a media driven "backlash" against the feminist advances of the 1970s. Faludi argues...
Young Men and Fire
Young Men and Fire is a non-fiction book written by Norman Maclean and edited by his son, John Norman Maclean. It is an account of Norman Maclean's research of the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 and the 13 men who died there. The fire occurred in Mann...
land where the blues began
Land Where the Blues Began is a book by Alan Lomax.
The Rape of Europa
The Rape of Europa is a book by Lynn H. Nicholas.
A civil action
A civil action is a book by Jonathan Harr.
Bad Land
Bad Land: An American Romance is a travelogue of Jonathan Raban's research, over a two year period, into the settlement of southeastern Montana in the early 20th century. The focus of the book is on the least-populated and least-known area of the...
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family and their interactions with the health care...
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda is a 1998 non-fiction book about the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda in 1994, written by The New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch....
Time, love, memory
Time, love, memory is a book by Jonathan Weiner.
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
“Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing” written by Ted Conover, a journalist and university professor, is the recounting of his experience of learning about the New York State correctional system by becoming a correctional officer for nearly a year. Conover...
Double Fold
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper is a non-fiction book by Nicholson Baker that was published in April, 2001. An excerpt appeared in the July 24, 2000 issue of The New Yorker, under the title "Deadline: The Author's Desperate Bid to...
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide is a book by Samantha Power, Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, which explores America's understanding of, response to, and inaction on...
Sons of Mississippi
Sons of Mississippi is a book by Paul Hendrickson.
The Reformation: A History
The Reformation: A History (2003) is a history book by English historian Diarmaid MacCulloch. It is a survey of the European Reformation between 1490 and 1700. It won the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award (US) and the 2003 Wolfson History...
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster is a 2005 book by Svetlana Alexievich. Alexievich was a journalist living in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, at the time of the Chernobyl disaster. She interviewed more than 500...
Rough Crossings
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution is a history book and television series by Simon Schama.
This gives an account of the history of thousands of enslaved African Americans who escaped to the British cause during the...
Medical Apartheid
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present is a 2007 book by Harriet A. Washington. It is a comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. From the era...
The Forever War
The Forever War is a non-fiction book by American journalist Dexter Filkins about his observations on assignment in Afghanistan and Iraq during the Iraq War. The book made the New York Times Book Review list of "10 Best Books of 2008" as chosen by...
