The Velvet Underground & Nico
7 best books like The Velvet Underground & Nico (Joe Harvard): Sacred Time, The Little Locksmith, The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000, Monsieur Proust, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill, New Poems of Emily Dickinson, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
| Author | Ursula Hegi |
| ISBN | 0743255992 |
The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parents' Studebaker, the Paradise...
| Author | Katharine Butler Hathaway |
| ISBN | 1558612394 |
The Little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway's luminous memoir of disability, faith, and transformation, is a critically acclaimed but largely forgotten literary classic brought back into print for the first time in thirty years. The Little Locksmith begins in 1895 when a specialist straps...
Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and...
| Author | Céleste Albaret |
| ISBN | 1590170598 |
Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate...
| Author | Ron Suskind |
| ISBN | 0743255461 |
Updated with a new afterword and including a selection of key documents, this is the explosive account of how the Bush administration makes policy on war, taxes, and politics -- its true agenda exposed by a member of the Bush cabinet.
This vivid, unfolding narrative is like no other book that...
| Author | Emily Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0807844160 |
For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume,...
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
| Author | Barrington Moore Jr. |
| ISBN | 0807050733 |
To quote a professor of mine, the one-sentence version of this book is "Kill your peasants." Kill them early? You'll be a liberal democracy in the 20th century like England. Kill them late? You'll be a communist basket case.
On a more serious note, this book is a masterpiece of comparative politics/comparative...
