American Gangster: And Other Tales of New York

8 best books like American Gangster: And Other Tales of New York (Mark Jacobson): Motherless Brooklyn, Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border, The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea, Books, The United States of Absurdity: Untold Stories from American History, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon, A Song From Dead Lips

Motherless Brooklyn

Author	Jonathan Lethem
ISBN	0375724834

Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster...

Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border

Author	Porter Fox
ISBN	0393357090

America’s northern border is the world’s longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America’s primary border for centuries—much of the early history of the United States took place there—and to the tens of millions who live and work...

The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

Author	Charles Robert Jenkins
ISBN	0520253337

In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him...

Books

Author	Larry McMurtry
ISBN	1416583343

This is another book that I wanted to love, but it disappointed me. It started off promising enough, with McMurtry waxing nostalgic about the books he read as a kid in the 1940s and 50s, but it quickly devolved into bland stories of name-dropping in the bookseller business and listing how many thousands...

The United States of Absurdity: Untold Stories from American History

Author	Dave Anthony
ISBN	0399578757

Discover illustrated profiles of the weird, outrageous (and true!) tales from American history that don't appear in school textbooks.

From the creators of the comedy/history podcast "The Dollop," "The United States of Absurdity" presents short, informative, and hilarious stories of...

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Author

Tom O'Neill

”Manson himself had a fondness for the same phrase: ‘I am the man in the mirror,’ he said. ‘Anything you see in me is in you, I am you, and when you can admit that you will be free.”


Who is Charles Manson?

This book began as a 5000 word piece for Premiere Magazine with the...

One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

Author	Charles Fishman
ISBN	1501106295

The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.

President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more...

A Song From Dead Lips

Author	William Shaw
ISBN	1782064192

London, 1968.

The Runaway. A young woman is found naked and strangled in an alley in well-to-do St John’s Wood.

The African. The neighbours would love to pin it on the enigmatic black stranger who has just moved in.

The Pariah. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen is convinced...