Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam
7 best books like Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam (David Farber): The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, London Journal, 1762-1763, Manuscript Found in Accra, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933, Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985, Take the Path of Most Resistance: How the Appalachian Trail Saved Me from the Sixties and Taught Me Everything You Need to Know
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
| Author | Isabel Wilkerson |
| ISBN | 0679444327 |
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
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Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination
| Author | Jack Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0674416597 |
By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become "white"? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay...
| Author | James Boswell |
| ISBN | 0300093012 |
In 1762 James Boswell, then twenty-two years old, left Edinburgh for London. The famous Journal he kept during the next nine months is an intimate account of his encounters with the high-life and the low-life in London. Frank and confessional as a personal portrait of the young Boswell, the Journal...
Manuscript Found in Accra
| Author | Paulo Coelho |
| ISBN | 0385349831 |
The latest novel from the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Alchemist.
There is nothing wrong with anxiety.
Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible.
Or to drive away whatever...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
| Author | Anne Applebaum |
| ISBN | 0771009305 |
The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented...
Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985
This book presents a masterful, introductory overview (or a neat refresher) of modern Chinese political history. A good primer or quick reference work for anyone studying the history and political transmutations of modern China at degree level, written by a very distinguished historian of the subject...
Take the Path of Most Resistance: How the Appalachian Trail Saved Me from the Sixties and Taught Me Everything You Need to Know
| Author | David Hiscoe |
| ISBN | 1941713718 |
Some of Hiscoe's memories of his 1973 hike from Maine to Georgia are funny, some are wistful and romantic, and some unsettling. Taken together, they give a vivid picture of what the iconic Appalachian Trail adventure was like back when the country was falling apart and hiking alone down the mountainous...
