Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
8 best books like Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (Garry Wills): Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, 10:04, How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer, Pence, Leaving the Atocha Station, Bob Dylan in America
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
| Author | Eric Schlosser |
| ISBN | 1594202273 |
A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological...
| Author | Rick Perlstein |
| ISBN | 0743243021 |
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixon rose from the political grave to seize & hold the presidency. Perlstein's account begins with the '65 Watts riots, nine months after Johnson's landslide victory over Goldwater appeared...
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
| ISBN | 0393343405 |
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.
Nearly...
| Author | Ben Lerner |
| ISBN | 0865478104 |
In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. In a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and social unrest, he must reckon with his...
How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer
After the Watergate scandal corrupted American democracy, it took a gang of honest politicians to restore honor
Not long after burglars were caught raiding the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, Congressman Tip O'Neill noticed that Democratic fundraising...
| Author | Tom Lobianco |
| ISBN | 0062868802 |
Want to make of clear at the outset that I dislike Mike Pence. Heading into the book, I felt he was a hypocrite who would say anything to become president. The book confirmed this, but is not a hatchet job, nothing about it is "gotcha!" material.
First part was slightly tedious, though necessary...
Leaving the Atocha Station
| Author | Ben Lerner |
| ISBN | 1566892740 |
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential...
| Author | Sean Wilentz |
| ISBN | 0385529880 |
One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.
Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century...
