Watergate
8 best books like Watergate (Thomas Mallon): What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown, Rumpole's Last Case, This Storm, Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
Author | Nathan Englander |
ISBN | 0307958701 |
These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.
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Author | Rick Perlstein |
ISBN | 0743243021 |
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixon rose from the political grave to seize & hold the presidency. Perlstein's account begins with the '65 Watts riots, nine months after Johnson's landslide victory over Goldwater appeared...
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Author | Rick Atkinson |
ISBN | 1627790438 |
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental...
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Author | Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
ISBN | 0525559531 |
The New York Times bestseller.
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American...
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
ISBN | 0525426760 |
The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition.
Here is the story of the remarkable year leading up to the siege of Yorktown. It sets Washington against his traitorous nemesis Benedict Arnold and...
Author | John Mortimer |
ISBN | 0140126953 |
Rumpole is on the job again, with his taste for claret, his penchant for poetry, and his reputation of a good story. This time, several interesting cases of murder and suspicious doings pass through chambers.
Contents:
“Rumpole and the Blind Tasting”;
“Rumpole and the Old,...
Author | James Ellroy |
ISBN | 0307957004 |
From "one of the great American writers of our time" (Los Angeles Times Book Review)--a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake in Pearl Harbor.
New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese...
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
Author | David Talbot |
ISBN | 1439108218 |
In a kaleidoscopic narrative, bestselling David Talbot recounts the gripping story of San Francisco in the turbulent years between 1967 & 1982—& of the extraordinary persons who led to the city’s ultimate rebirth & triumph.
Season of the Witch is the first book to fully...