The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
10 best books like The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela (Nelson Mandela): Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel, Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World, The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties, 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
Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora
| Author | Emily Raboteau |
| ISBN | 0802120032 |
A decade in the making, Emily Raboteau’s Searching for Zion takes readers around the world on an unexpected adventure of faith. Both one woman’s quest for a place to call “home” and an investigation into a people’s search for the Promised Land, this landmark work of creative nonfiction is...
Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
| Author | John Scott |
| ISBN | 0253205360 |
Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly incredible enthusiasm with which many of them worked." --Ronald Grigor Suny
A genuine grassroots account of Soviet life--a type of book of which...
Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World
There is a quiet revolution that is radically reshaping the Muslim world: 50 million women have entered the workforce and are upending their countries' economies and societies.
Longlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Across the Muslim world, ever...
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department...
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir
| Author | Telford Taylor |
| ISBN | 0316834009 |
Telford Taylor was a member of the American prosecution team at Nuremburg during 1945-46, so this book gives us a very personal view of the court proceedings. There were four prosecuting teams, from the U.S., Britain, the Soviet Union and France. I list them in that order because the U.S. team had many...
The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis
| Author | Ira Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1586489364 |
Journalists have called the U.S. Senate an empty chamber; politicians have lamented that the institution is broken--yet the Senate was once capable of greatness. Senators of the 1960s and '70s overcame southern opposition to civil rights, passed Great Society legislation, and battled the executive...
First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women
| Author | Susan Swain |
| ISBN | 1610395662 |
A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians
C-SPAN's yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image, featured interviews with more than fifty preeminent historians and biographers. In this informative...
The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy
| Author | John Cannon |
| ISBN | 0198227868 |
The rich pageant of Britain's history emerges nowhere more colorfully than in the story of its kings and queens. This spectacular book offers the most authoritative account of the British monarchy ever published for the general reader. With over 400 illustrations--a third of them in color--it traces...
America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story
| Author | Bruce Feiler |
| ISBN | 0060574887 |
Bruce Feiler’s New York Times bestsellers Abraham, Walking the Bible, and Where God Was Born brilliantly explored the roots of faith. With America’s Prophet, Feiler looks at Moses and the essential role the prophet has played in our nation’s history and development. Bruce Feiler’s most...
Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns
| Author | Pauline Kiernan |
| ISBN | 1592403271 |
Celebrating the Bard in all his bawdy glory, a hilarious and insightful look into the down-and-dirty sexual puns lurking in Shakespeare’s body of work
London’s Elizabethan theaters were located in the seedy part of town, close to whorehouses but never far from Puritanical scorn. In...
Some Wore Blue & Some Wore Gray
With the 150th Anniversary of the Battle at Gettysburg and the Siege of Vicksburg, New York Times Best Selling Author, Heather Graham, is revisiting one of her favorite time periods - The American Civil War. This time, however, she has compiled biographies of some of her favorite real-life characters...
Party Animals: Growing Up Communist
| Author | David Aaronovitch |
| ISBN | 0224074717 |
In July 1961, just before David Aaronovitch's seventh birthday, Yuri Gagarin came to London. The Russian cosmonaut was everything the Aaronovitch family wished for - a popular and handsome embodiment of modern communism.
But who were they, these ever hopeful, defiant and (had they but known...
The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush
A groundbreaking look at the lives of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the most consequential father-son pair in American history, often in their own words.
In this endearing, illuminating work, presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove tracks the two Bush presidents from their formative years...
