Washington Goes to War
9 best books like Washington Goes to War (David Brinkley): The Art of Fielding, Caleb's Crossing, Prey, Alas, Babylon, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, It Can't Happen Here, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People
| Author | Chad Harbach |
| ISBN | 0316126691 |
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.
Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future....
| Author | Geraldine Brooks |
| ISBN | 0670021040 |
A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book.
Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard...
| Author | Michael Crichton |
| ISBN | 0061015725 |
In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.
It has been...
| Author | Pat Frank |
| ISBN | 0060741872 |
"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just...
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen...
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...
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
| Author | William Styron |
| ISBN | 0679736395 |
This very small volume was not an easy read. Mr. Styron eases us into his own story by relating stories of other writers and artists who experienced deep depression. Some made it through but most did not. His stories are liberally laced with a depth of understanding that he acknowledged could only come...
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
| Author | Sarah Vowell |
| ISBN | 1594631743 |
From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous and insightful account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette--the one Frenchman we could all agree on--and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality.
On August 16,...
American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People
| Author | T.H. Breen |
| ISBN | 0809075881 |
Before there could be a revolution, there was a rebellion; before patriots, there were insurgents. Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom, T. H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans, most of them members of farm families living in small communities,...
