Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism
10 best books like Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism (Michael Ignatieff): Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, Junky, Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines, 82년생 김지영, The Devil and Sonny Liston, Billy Bathgate, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America, The Last Opium Den, Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
| Author | Firoozeh Dumas |
| ISBN | 0812968379 |
In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. Funny in Farsi...
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0142003166 |
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first novel. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground. Unafraid to portray himself in 1953 as a confirmed...
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
| Author | Nic Sheff |
| ISBN | 1416913629 |
The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.
This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery.
Nic...
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The Devil and Sonny Liston
| Author | Nick Tosches |
| ISBN | 0316897469 |
An interesting book, but not one I'd want to duplicate.
Tosches is clearly a skilled writer, and this book is full of good, muscular prose. The scope of the book is impressive, as is the thoroughness of research. Tosches covers a lot of ground—quite admirably, in fact—and is quite dexterous...
| Author | E.L. Doctorow |
| ISBN | 0452280028 |
In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old highschool dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. The product of an East Bronx upbringing by his half-crazy Irish Catholic mother, after his Jewish father left...
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
| Author | Eddie S. Glaude Jr. |
| ISBN | 0804137412 |
A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society
America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to...
| Author | Dana Milbank |
| ISBN | 0385533888 |
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck.
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”...
Nick Tosches trades civilization and its discontents for the possibility of one moment of pure bliss.
Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, Nick Tosches goes in search of something everyone tells him no longer exists: an opium den. From Europe to Hong Kong to Thailand...
Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall
| Author | Andrew Meier |
| ISBN | 0393326411 |
"A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a virtuosic mix of nuanced history, lyric travelogue, and...
Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism
| Author | Paul Klebnikov |
| ISBN | 0156013304 |
From nuclear superpower to impoverished nation, post-communist Russia has become one of the most corrupt regimes in the world. Paul Klebnikov pieces together the previous decade in Russian history, showing that a major piece of "the decline of Russia' puzzle lies in the meteoric business career...
But He Was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters
| Author | Robert A. Rockaway |
| ISBN | 9652292494 |
A thoroughly compelling book and one of a kind. The apt title was chosen due to a response Rockaway’s mother gave when he was talking about a Jewish gangster – “But he was good to his mother!” What seemed to be common among most Jewish gangsters was the fact that they had strong family ties, and were...
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
| Author | Alec Guinness |
| ISBN | 0140277455 |
Having filled roles in films as varied as "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Star Wars," Guinness is one of the most distinguished and beloved - movie actors of his generation. His charmingly sincere diary entries offer a glimpse of the private side of his often very public life. What makes Guinness a fine and...
| Author | Mario Puzo |
| ISBN | 0451160193 |
"A page-flipping tale of power, brutality and glamour (Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Godfather.
Played out in the underground worlds of high-stakes gambling, publishing, and the film industry, this epic thriller follows two brothers, Merlyn and Arite, as they delve...
| Author | Mario Puzo |
| ISBN | 0345476727 |
Before The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo's classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell's Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant,...
The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler
| Author | David L. Roll |
| ISBN | 0199891958 |
The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration.
In this impressive biography, David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the New Deal's implementation, became the...
| Author | Anya Ulinich |
| ISBN | 0670038199 |
Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she's a chubby, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberian town of Asbestos 2. Her father takes off for the United States, and leaves Sasha to navigate adolescence in a bleak apartment bloc with her overbearing mother. Sasha falls in love with an art school drop-out...
The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano
| Author | Martin A. Gosch |
| ISBN | 0316321400 |
If you are a mafia addict, this is one of the best books to read. Charlie Lacania tells his life story from start to finish. He is likeable, and I have friends who met him in a bar in Sicily when my ship visited Messina. And he was so happy to talk to Americans, they loved him. To read his life story is to read the...
