Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath

8 best books like Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath (Rick Wartzman): The Moon Is Down, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power, American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World, L'étranger, James Penney's New Identity, 1861: The Civil War Awakening

The Moon Is Down

Author	John Steinbeck
ISBN	0141185538

Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The town is important because it is a port that serves a large coal mine. Colonel Lanser, the head of the invading battalion, along with his staff establishes his HQ in the house of the democratically elected...

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Author

Lawrence Wright

A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews...

Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

Author

Laurence Bergreen

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage

“Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York...

Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power

Author	Seth Rosenfeld
ISBN	0374257000

Subversives traces the FBI’s secret involvement with three iconic figures who clashed at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile radical Mario Savio, and the liberal university president Clark Kerr. Through these converging narratives,...

American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

Author	David Baron
ISBN	1631490168

In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another—an adventuresome female astronomer—fought to prove that science was...

L'étranger

Author

Jacques Ferrandez

Le jour où sa mère est morte, Meursault a remarqué qu'il faisait très chaud dans l'autobus qui le menait d'Alger à l'asile de vieillards, et il s'est assoupi. Plus tard, dans la chambre mortuaire, il a apprécié le café que lui offrait le concierge, a eu envie de fumer, a été gêné par la violente...

James Penney's New Identity

Author

Lee Child

Experience a heart-pumping and thrilling tale of suspense!

Originally published in THRILLER (2006),

edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.



Before Jack Reacher became the seminal, nomadic hero he is today and #1 New York Times bestselling...

1861: The Civil War Awakening

Author	Adam Goodheart
ISBN	1400040159

As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began.

1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring...