The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate: Vol. 1, 1764–1772
10 best books like The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate: Vol. 1, 1764–1772 (John H. Rhodehamel): Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Another Day of Life, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, The Great Silence 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War, Julian, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
| Author | Roz Chast |
| ISBN | 1608198065 |
#1 New York Times Bestseller
2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0451457994 |
On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.
So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.
But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...
One of the greatest-selling...
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate....
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
| Author | Margaret MacMillan |
| ISBN | 0375760520 |
'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever written about those fateful months after World War I when the maps of Europe were redrawn. Brimming with lucid analysis, elegant character sketches, and geopolitical pathos, it is essential reading.'
Between...
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
| Author | Kay Redfield Jamison |
| ISBN | 0679763309 |
i was reading some reviews of the book written by people that disliked this.
i just want to say, that for a person suffering from mental illness, the fact that you know jamieson's full CV and her academic struggles is important. it's more of a - look, she was wildly successful, and dealing with...
| Author | Ryszard Kapuściński |
'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy,...
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
| Author | Sarah Vowell |
| ISBN | 0743243803 |
Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell—widely hailed for her inimitable stories on public radio's This American Life—ponders a number of curious...
| Author | Juliet Nicolson |
| ISBN | 0719562562 |
I had high hopes for this book, and was looking forward to finding out more about the two years immediately after the end of World War 1 which presaged a period of enormous social change. The book takes a chronological approach, and gives almost every chapter a one word title (e.g. Wound, Hopelessness,...
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.
Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest...
1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
| Author | Charles Emmerson |
| ISBN | 1610392566 |
Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features—last...
| Author | Dashiell Hammett |
| ISBN | 1931082006 |
In scores of stories written for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett used the vernacular adventure tale to register the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern America. His stories opened up crime fiction to the realities of American streets and American...
| Author | Dana Milbank |
| ISBN | 0385533888 |
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck.
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”...
Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York
| Author | Roz Chast |
| ISBN | 1620403218 |
From the #1 NYT bestselling author of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast's new graphic memoir--a hilarious illustrated ode/guide/ thank-you note to Manhattan.
A native Brooklynite-turned-suburban commuter deemed the quintessential New Yorker, Roz Chast has always...
The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War
| Author | Peter Hart |
| ISBN | 0199976279 |
Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2013 by
The Economist
World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared....
The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began
| Author | Jack Beatty |
| ISBN | 0802778119 |
In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty offers a highly original view of World War I, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. "Most books set in 1914 map the path leading to war," Beatty writes. "This one maps the multiple paths that led away from it."
Chronicling...
