The Giant and How He Humbugged America

5 best books like The Giant and How He Humbugged America (Jim Murphy): Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland, It Can't Happen Here, Baseball Saved Us, Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team, Not Dead Yet: The Memoir

Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland

Author	Sally M. Walker
ISBN	0822571358

Bright white teeth. Straight leg bones. Awkwardly contorted arm bones. On a hot summer day in 2005, Dr. Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution peered into an excavated grave, carefully examining the fragile skeleton that had been buried there for four hundred years. "He was about fifteen years...

It Can't Happen Here

Author

Sinclair Lewis

The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression when...

Baseball Saved Us

Author	Ken Mochizuki
ISBN	1880000199

Shorty and his family, along with thousands of Japanese Americans, are sent to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Fighting the heat and dust of the desert, Shorty and his father decide to build a baseball diamond and form a league in order to boost the spirits of the internees. Shorty...

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

Author	Steve Sheinkin
ISBN	1596439548

Jim Thorpe: super athlete, Olympic gold medalist, Native American.

Pop Warner: indomitable coach, football mastermind, Ivy League grad.

Before these men became legends, they met in 1907 at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, where they forged one of the winningest teams...

Not Dead Yet: The Memoir

Author	Phil Collins
ISBN	1101907479

Phil Collins pulls no punches—about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that’s inspired his music. In his much-awaited memoir, Not Dead Yet, he tells the story of his epic career, with an auspicious debut at age 11 in a crowd shot from the Beatles’ legendary film A Hard Day’s Night....