Edith Wharton
7 best books like Edith Wharton (R.W.B. Lewis): De Kooning: An American Master, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963, The Mis-Education of the Negro, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market, W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
De Kooning: An American Master
| Author | Mark Stevens |
| ISBN | 0375711163 |
Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement...
| Author | David Levering Lewis |
| ISBN | 0805068139 |
I checked the second volume of Lewis' DuBois biography out of the library right after finishing the first volume which I think is a testament to the excellence of the author's work. Volume II was much harder to make my way through, which is not due to any fault of Lewis. In the second volume you could feel...
The Mis-Education of the Negro
| Author | Carter G. Woodson |
| ISBN | 1564110419 |
The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American history and culture. This system mis-educates the African American student, failing to prepare...
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
| Author | George C. Herring |
| ISBN | 0195078225 |
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume...
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
| Author | Eric Schlosser |
| ISBN | 0618446702 |
America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kid's nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his exacting eye on the underbelly of the American marketplace and...
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
| Author | David Levering Lewis |
| ISBN | 0613630866 |
This is a biography that actually merits the “magisterial” among its blurbs, the kind of book that shows biography second only to the novel for difficulty of organization and effect. As epigraph to the first of the five volumes he would devote to the life of Henry James, Leon Edel quoted a line from...
| Author | Debby Applegate |
| ISBN | 0385513976 |
No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings—especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century’s bestselling book Uncle...
