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New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
A varied book that will appeal to armchair travelers and others curious about New York. Highly recommended for public libraries as well as large academic libraries the world over.
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Philip Roth: The Biography
For an author like Roth, who put so much of his own life into his books, this biography is an essential companion to his novels, enabling readers to discover the true-life inspirations for many of his memorable characters and scenes. Recommended for readers who have read and enjoyed Philip Roth’s fiction.
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The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Author of The Yearling
A comprehensive, well-researched portrait of the life of Rawlings and her creative struggles that will engage a variety of readers.
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
An absorbing, thoughtful, and balanced look at a master of his medium.
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
This important, absorbing work shows that the full story of the Cuban Missile Crisis must be told from its global perspective. See Martin Sherwin’s Gambling with Armageddon for another account that places the Crisis in its Cold War context.
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
At a time when definitions of citizenship and civil rights are again under assault, Masur’s careful accounting of the ways Americans came to understand such terms provides an informed perspective to appreciate that such concepts never were, and thus never are, self-evident. They require due diligence and vigilance to secure and sustain at all levels of government. An essential book.
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Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob
This thoughtful and thought-provoking memoir of family secrets and family lore, like Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost, will appeal to readers of family histories.Shorto, Russell
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
Highly recommended for fans of historical biography, especially as it intersects with the Civil War.
The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene
Greene’s life story is both interesting and fascinating, and this balanced account offers the best reading of how his personal life infused and enriched his work.
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