Mary Chesnut's Civil War

10 best books like Mary Chesnut's Civil War (C. Vann Woodward): The Making of the President 1960, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, The Sun in the Morning: My Early Years in India and England, Mary Chesnut: A Diary From Dixie, From Ritual to Romance, Searching for Stonewall Jackson: A Quest for Legacy in a Divided America

The Making of the President 1960
AuthorTheodore H. White
ISBN0760762899
What is a presidential election? "The most awesome transfer of power in the world—, the power to marshal & mobilize, the power to send men to kill or be killed, the power to tax & destroy, the power to create & the responsibility to do so, the power to guide & the responsibility to heal...
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
AuthorDouglas A. Blackmon
ISBN0385506252
In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.

Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate...
Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
AuthorBrian Jay Jones
The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss.

Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
AuthorRobert A. Caro
ISBN0525656340
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books

For the first time in his long career, Robert...
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
AuthorChristina Thompson
ISBN0062060872
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.

For more than...
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
AuthorTimothy Egan
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying...
AuthorM.M. Kaye
ISBN0312049994
M.M. Kaye’s memories are as beautiful as her descriptive prose in this colorful and wistfully evocative memoir of her youth in India, which to her was always home. The reader will come away with a different view of India during the time of the Raj, and before the Great War. Anything but a political book,...
Mary Chesnut: A Diary From Dixie
AuthorMary Boykin Chesnut
ISBN0517182661
This original diary of the wife of Confederate General James Chestnut, Jr., who was also an aide to President Jefferson Davis, provides an eyewitness narrative of all the years of the war. Period photographs illustrate this you-are-there account of the daily lives and tribulations of all who suffered...
AuthorJessie Laidlay Weston
ISBN0486296806
Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as one of the chief sources for his great poem "The Waste Land," Jessie L. Weston's From Ritual to Romance remains a landmark of anthropological and mythological scholarship. In this book she explores the origins of the Grail legend, arguing that it dates back to a primitive...
Searching for Stonewall Jackson: A Quest for Legacy in a Divided America
AuthorBen Cleary
Historian Ben Cleary takes readers beyond the legend of Stonewall Jackson and directly onto the Civil War battlefields on which he fought, and where a country once again finds itself at a crossroads.

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was the embodiment of Southern contradictions. He...
In the Full Light of the Sun
AuthorClare Clark
Based on a true story, this gorgeous new novel follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in an art scandal—involving newly discovered van Goghs—that rocks Germany amidst the Nazis’ rise to power.

Hedonistic and politically turbulent, Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy...
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
AuthorThomas Lockley
Warrior. Samurai. Legend.

“A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life.” —The Washington Post

The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.

When...
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