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9 best books like The March (E.L. Doctorow): Tree of Smoke, The Man With the Golden Arm, Cloudsplitter, The Last Crossing, An Unfinished Season, A Flag For Sunrise, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington, Grant and Twain: The Story of an American Friendship, The Pugilist at Rest

Tree of Smoke
AuthorDenis Johnson
ISBN0374279128
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply...
The Man With the Golden Arm
AuthorNelson Algren
ISBN1583220089
Nelson Algren's devastating of that savage, subterranean world go gamblers, junkies, alcoholics, prostitutes, thieves, and degenerates remains unsurpassed as an authentic portrait of human depravity.

Only a master like Algren could create such a passionate and dramatic novel of so...
Cloudsplitter
AuthorRussell Banks
ISBN0060930861
A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with...
The Last Crossing
AuthorGuy Vanderhaeghe
ISBN0349117268
Charles and Addington Gaunt must find their free- spirited brother, Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. They enlist the services of a guide to lead them on their journey across a harsh and unknown landscape. This is the enigmatic Jerry Potts, half Blackfoot, half Scottish,...
An Unfinished Season
AuthorWard Just
The winter of the year my father carried a gun for his own protection was the coldest on record in Chicago.

So begins Ward Just's An Unfinished Season, the winter in question a postwar moment of the 1950s when the modern world lay just over the horizon, a time of rabid anticommunism, worker unrest,...
A Flag For Sunrise
AuthorRobert Stone
ISBN0330370979
An Astonishing Saga of Politics, War, and Americans Out of Place, by a National Book Award Winner! Possessed of astonishing dramatic, emotional, and philosophical resonance, A Flag for Sunrise is a novel in the grand tradition about Americans drawn into the maelstrom of a small Central American country...
Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington
AuthorRichard Brookhiser
ISBN0684822911
In this thought-provoking look at George Washington as soldier and statesman, Richard Brookhiser traces the astonishing achievements of Washington's career and illuminates how his character and his values shaped the beginnings of American politics.

Brookhiser recaptures the real...
Grant and Twain: The Story of an American Friendship
AuthorMark Perry
ISBN0812966139
In the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant or Twain realize that this seemingly straightforward decision would profoundly alter not only both their lives but the course of American literature. Over the next fifteen...
The Pugilist at Rest
AuthorThom Jones
ISBN0316473049
Thom Jones made his literary debut in The New Yorker in 1991. Within six months his stories appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Mirabella, Story, Buzz, and in The New Yorker twice more. "The Pugilist at Rest" - the title story from this stunning collection - took first place in Prize Stories 1993: The O. Henry...
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