Affliction

Author	Richard Ford
ISBN	0099447126

In this second novel of Richard Ford’s Frank Bascombe quartet, I was drawn further into the microcosm life and lifestyle of not only the man, but also the macrocosm of America – the environment and history that parallels the structure of his life.

In this second novel Frank is experiencing...

Author	Jack N. Rakove
ISBN	0679781218

From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so,...

Author	Mark E. Neely Jr.
ISBN	0195080327

If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Indeed, Lincoln's record on the Constitution and individual rights has fueled a century of debate, from charges that Democrats were singled out for harrassment to Gore Vidal's...

Author	William Kennedy
ISBN	0743263065

Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike. He ran away again after accidentally -- and fatally -- dropping his infant son.

Now, in 1938, Francis is back in...

Author	Frederick Exley
ISBN	0679720766

Fredrick Exley (1929-1992) – Photo of the writer as a vulnerable, sensitive young man. In many ways, much too vulnerable and sensitive for mid-20th century American society, a society where a man’s prime virtue is being tough.

A Fan's Notes is the odyssey of one man’s unending...

Author	James Welch
ISBN	0393329380

I will hand my Creative Writing degree track this: it opened me up to a plethora of authors and genres that I would have never previously looked twice at. "The Indian Lawyer" is one such book that I may have never looked at had it not been assigned to me. And the result...is gratitude.

This book gives...

Author

Kevin Powers

Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author of THE YELLOW BIRDS explores the brutal legacy of violence and race in American society.

Spanning over one hundred years, from the antebellum era to the 1980's, A Shout in the Ruins examines the...