The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties
10 best books like The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties (Judith Nies): In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution, Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy, Widening Circles: A Memoir, Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House, The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America, Voices from the Second World War: Stories of War as Told to Children of Today, Declaration: The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent, May 1-July 4, 1776, Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches, Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
| Author | Susan Brownmiller |
| ISBN | 0385314868 |
Male-only admissions policies. Back-alley abortions. The pervasive belief that rape was a woman's fault. These were the shocking conditions that stirred students, mothers, businesswomen, and grandmothers to activism in the latter half of the twentieth century. In this stirring memoir, Susan...
| Author | Peter Balakian |
| ISBN | 0767902548 |
The first-born son of his generation, Peter Balakian grew up in a close, extended family, sheltered by 1950s and '60s New Jersey suburbia and immersed in an all-American boyhood defined by rock 'n' roll, adolescent pranks, and a passion for the New York Yankees that he shared with his beloved grandmother....
| Author | Elizabeth R. Varon |
| ISBN | 0195179897 |
Northern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the most remarkable figures in American history, a woman who defied the conventions of the nineteenth-century South. In Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, historian Elizabeth Varon provides...
| Author | Joanna Macy |
| ISBN | 0865714207 |
In this absorbing, and sometimes thrilling memoir, well-known eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, and deep ecology activist /teacher Joanna Macy recounts her adventures in the key social movements of our era. Macy's autobiography reads like a novel as she relates her multi-faceted life experiences...
| Author | Helen Thomas |
| ISBN | 0743202260 |
In a natural follow-up to her national bestseller Front Row at the White House, the dean of the White House press corps presents a vivid and personal chronicle of the American presidency. Currently a columnist for Hearst and a former White House bureau chief for UPI, Helen Thomas has covered an astounding...
| Author | April Ryan |
| ISBN | 1442238410 |
2016 NAACP Image Award Nominee, Essence Top 10 books of 2015, African American Literary Show Inc. 2015 Best Non Fiction Award In The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan gives readers a compelling and personal behind-the-scenes look at race relations in contemporary America from...
| Author | Candlewick Press |
| ISBN | 0763694924 |
In an intergenerational keepsake volume, witnesses to World War II share their memories with young interviewers so that their experiences will never be forgotten.
The Second World War was the most devastating war in history. Up to eighty million people died, and the map of the world was redrawn....
| Author | William Hogeland |
| ISBN | 1416584099 |
I think most people, when they think of the pre-Revolutionary days, are aware of two groups--those that supported independence and those that did not. But Hogeland shows how much more complex the real story was. There were those that wanted war with England leading to independence. There were those...
| Author | Ernie Pyle |
| ISBN | 0671644521 |
I was given a copy of this book to aid in my research on WWII for one of my Lash novels. I thought that it was simply going to be transcripts of Ernie’s dispatches sent in from the front lines of WWII that later were published in America. I hoped to get some eyewitness accounts and maybe some interesting anecdotes....
| Author | Patrick K. O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 0743214811 |
In his award-winning book Beyond Valor, Patrick O'Donnell reveals the true nature of the European Theater in World War II, as told by those who survived. Now, with Into the Rising Sun, O'Donnell tells the story of the brutal Pacific War, based on hundreds of interviews spanning a decade. The men who fought...
| Author | Marla R. Miller |
| ISBN | 0805082972 |
A richly woven biography of the beloved patriot Betsy Ross, and an enthralling portrait of everyday life in Revolutionary War-era Philadelphia
Betsy Ross and the Making of America is the first comprehensively researched and elegantly written biography of one of America's most captivating figures...
"Her book's catchy title belies its substantial content: this is an honest, perceptive memoir from a feisty survivor who's willing to discuss every detail, like getting sick in cabs during chemo treatments, baldness and sex. " - Publishers Weekly
Having recently graduated from Columbia...
A decade after America pulled out of Vietnam, the seeds of the often heart- wrenching oral history, A Piece of My Heart, were sown when writer and filmmaker Keith Walker met a woman who had been an emergency room nurse in Cu Chi and Da Nang. She and 25 others recount the time they spent "in country" as part...
| Author | Nelson Mandela |
| ISBN | 1631491180 |
Arrested in 1962 as South Africa’s apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration,...
| Author | Pauline Bartel |
| ISBN | 1589798201 |
A Must-Have for Gone With the Wind Fans! From Margaret Mitchell s tattered manuscript to the film s seventy-fifth anniversary, this book is a behind-the-scenes chronicle of Gone With the Wind the book, the movie, and the phenomenon that continues today. Related in loving detail are inside stories...
| Author | Robert Gildea |
| ISBN | 0312423594 |
In France, the German occupation is called simply the "dark years." There were only the "good French" who resisted and the "bad French" who collaborated. Marianne in Chains, a broad and provocative history drawing on previously unseen archives, firsthand interviews, diaries, and eyewitness accounts,...
| Author | Angela P. Dodson |
| ISBN | 1455570931 |
2017 begins the centennial celebrations of women first winning the right to vote, culminating in national suffrage three years later. This book documents the milestones in that hard won struggle and reflects on women's impact on politics since.
From the birth of our nation to...
| Author | Tom Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0965079929 |
The Unspoken Thing; Kesey's role and the whole direction the Pranksters were taking-all the pranksters were conscious of it, but none of them put it into words, as I say. They made a point of not putting it into words. that in itself was one of the unspoken rules. If you label it this, then it can't be that....Kesey...
| Author | Anthony Sampson |
| ISBN | 0006388450 |
The author has known Mandela since the 1950s, and has been given complete access to all his personal papers, to Mandela himself, and to his friends and political associates, to write the full story of Mandela's life. In addition to covering his years before, during and after his incarceration, the author...
| Author | Beverley Jackson |
| ISBN | 0898159571 |
Excellent exploration of the cultural phenomenon of footbinding, along with beautiful photographs. To be honest, I hadn't really thought much about it until reading Lisa See's "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan." Not only does Jackson explore the horrific pain of footbinding, she puts it in good context,...
| Author | Erica Heller |
| ISBN | 1439197687 |
THROUGHOUT ERICA HELLER’S LIFE, when people learned that Joseph Heller was her father, they often remarked, “How terrific!” But was there a catch? Like his most famous work, her father was a study in contradictions: eccentric, brilliant, and voracious, but also mercurial, competitive, and...
| Author | Jeff Guinn |
| ISBN | 1585426695 |
All three of Jeff Guinn’s beloved Christmas Chronicles novels in one elegant edition.
The Autobiography of Santa Claus
“A book that deserves classic status.”
—The Dallas Morning News
This enchanting classic combines solid historical fact with glorious...
| Author | Ann Kramer |
| ISBN | 1844680584 |
From Mata Hari through to Noor Inyat Khan, women spies have rarely received the recognition they deserve. They have often been trivialized and, in cinema and popular fiction, stereotyped as vamps or dupes. The reality is very different. As spies, women have played a critical role during wartime, receiving...
| Author | Willie Nelson |
| ISBN | 0815410808 |
Willie Nelson is more than just a singer whose albums have captures this country's imagination for more than thirty years: he is the nearest thing we have to the poet laureate of America's heart and the heartland. Told with frankness, warmth and earthy humor, here is Willie's story: his depression ere...
| Author | Walter Cronkite |
| ISBN | 0394578791 |
"IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING . . . [A] SPLENDID MEMOIR".
--The Wall Street Journal
"Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to the most heartwarming, nostalgia-producing book you will have read in many a year".
--Ann Landers
"Entertaining . . . The story of a modest...
