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Winner 54

WorkYear
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk2023
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry2022
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles2021
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne2020
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom2019
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart2018
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi2016
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates2015
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos2014
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer2013
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo2012
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt2011
Just Kids by Patti Smith2010
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles2009
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed2008
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner2007
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan2006
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion2005
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle2004
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire2003
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro2002
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon2001
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick2000
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower1999
Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball1998
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis1997
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us by James Carroll1996
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg1995
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland1994
United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal1993
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette1992
Freedom in the Making of Western Culture by Orlando Patterson1991
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow1990
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman1989
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan1988
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes1987
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez1986
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas1985
Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 by Robert V. Remini1984
Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870-81 by Leon Edel1963
Henry James: The Middle Years, 1881-95 by Leon Edel1963
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford1962
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann1960
Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël by J. Christopher Herold1959
The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke by Catherine Drinker Bowen1958
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol 1 by George F. Kennan1957
American in Italy by Herbert Kubly1956
The measure of man: on freedom, human values, survival, and the modern temper by Joseph Wood Krutch1955
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton1954
The Course of Empire by Bernard DeVoto1953
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson1952
Herman Melville by Newton Arvin1951
The life of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph L. Rusk1950

Finalist 357

WorkYear
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk2023
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera-Garza2023
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe2023
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh2023
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant2023
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry2022
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke2022
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen2022
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras2022
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels2022
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles2021
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib2021
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire2021
Tastes Like War: A Memoir by Grace M. Cho2021
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace2021
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne2020
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio2020
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt2020
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland2020
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays) by Jerald Walker2020
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom2019
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom2019
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché2019
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer2019
Solitary by Albert Woodfox2019
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart2018
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway2018
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson2018
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh2018
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler2018
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen2017
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar2017
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann2017
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy Maclean2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi2016
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild2016
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen2016
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez2016
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson2016
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates2015
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann2015
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery2015
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power2015
Ordinary Light: A Memoir by Tracy K. Smith2015
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos2014
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz Chast2014
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes by Anand Gopal2014
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr2014
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson2014
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer2013
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore2013
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower2013
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor2013
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright2013
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo2012
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum2012
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro2012
The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir by Domingo Martinez2012
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid2012
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt2011
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker2011
Love and Capital by Mary Gabriel2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable2011
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss2011
Just Kids by Patti Smith2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick2010
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W. Dower2010
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring2010
Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War by Megan Stack2010
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles2009
Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook by David M. Carroll2009
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Dr. Sean B. Carroll2009
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin2009
The Poison King : The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor2009
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) by Drew Gilpin Faust2008
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer2008
Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives by Jim Sheeler2008
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham2008
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner2007
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat2007
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens2007
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton2007
Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad2007
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch2006
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran2006
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler2006
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright2006
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion2005
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion by Alan Burdick2005
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius by Leo Damrosch2005
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer2005
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild2005
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle2004
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks2004
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer2004
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett by Jennifer Gonnerman2004
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt2004
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire2003
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum2003
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt2003
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D’Emilio2003
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson2003
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro2002
When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution by Devra Davis2002
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande2002
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert2002
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins by Steve Olson2002
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon2001
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood by Marie Arana2001
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nina Bernstein2001
My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark by David James Duncan2001
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross2001
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick2000
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life—1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun2000
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan2000
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century by David Levering Lewis2000
Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney2000
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower1999
Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier1999
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden1999
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation by John Phillip Santos1999
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman1999
Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball1998
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom1998
There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok by Yaffa Eliach1998
A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage by Beth Kephart1998
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer1998
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis1997
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer1997
My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid1997
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch1997
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus1997
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us by James Carroll1996
The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene1996
The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War by Paul Hendrickson1996
The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller by Cary Reich1996
Fruitful: A Real Mother by Anne Roiphe1996
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg1995
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia by Dennis Covington1995
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett1995
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr1995
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De La Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South by Maryanne Vollers1995
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland1994
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Putnam Demos1994
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer1994
Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society by John Edgar Wideman1994
In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff1994
United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal1993
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture by William R. Leach1993
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis1993
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Slotkin1993
Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson1993
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette1992
The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction by Edward L. Ayers1992
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick1992
Truman by David McCullough1992
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills1992
Freedom in the Making of Western Culture by Orlando Patterson1991
Why Americans Hate Politics by E. J. Dionne, Jr.1991
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction by Melissa Fay Greene1991
The Jameses: A Family Narrative by R. W. B. Lewis1991
Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Middlebrook1991
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow1990
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School by Samuel G. Freedman1990
Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician by Roger Morris1990
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh1990
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by T. H. Watkins1990
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman1989
Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years by McGeorge Bundy1989
Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century Ends by William Pfaff1989
Mother Country by Marilynne Robinson1989
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan1988
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner1988
The Rise of Modern Paganism by Peter Gay1988
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox1988
Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder by Jack McLaughlin1988
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes1987
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald1987
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick1987
Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics by Claudia Koonz1987
New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars by Robert A. M. Stern1987
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez1986
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower1986
The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune by Richard Kluger1986
The Young Hemingway by Michael S. Reynolds1986
Tombee: Portrait of a cotton planter by Theodore Rosengarten1986
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas1985
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity by Daniel J. Kevles1985
... The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall1985
Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 by Robert V. Remini1984
Becoming William James by Howard M. Feinstein1984
Thomas More: A Biography by Richard Marius1984
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka by Ernst Pawel1984
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty1984
Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870-81 by Leon Edel1963
Henry James: The Middle Years, 1881-95 by Leon Edel1963
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson1963
O'Neill by Arthur Gelb1963
Contemporaries by Alfred Kazin1963
The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait by Frederic Morton1963
Chekhov: A Biography by Ernest Joseph Simmons1963
John Adams by Page Smith1963
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman1963
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War by Edmund Wilson1963
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford1962
African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man by Robert Ardrey1962
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin1962
The will of Zeus; a history of Greece from the origins of Hellenic culture to the death of Alexander by Stringfellow Barr1962
The architecture of America; a social and cultural history by John E. Burchard1962
Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias by Rene Dubos1962
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs1962
Children of Sanchez by Oscar Lewis1962
A matter of life and death by Virgilia Peterson1962
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark Schorer1962
Lafcadio Hearn by Elizabeth Stevenson1962
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White1962
John Bunyan by Ola Elizabeth Winslow1962
Asimov's New Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov1961
The Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright (The Norton Library) by Peter Blake1961
Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813 by George Dangerfield1961
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Herbert Donald1961
My wilderness: the Pacific West by William O. Douglas1961
The Firmament of Time by Loren Eiseley1961
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces by Felix Frankfurter1961
Goodbye to a River: A Narrative by John Graves1961
The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936 by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.1961
Name And Address: An Autobiography by Thomas Stanley Matthews1961
Thomas Wolfe, a biography by Elizabeth Nowell1961
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann1960
The House of Intellect (Perennial Classics) by Jacques Barzun1960
Power without property; a new development in American political economy by Adolf Augustus Berle1960
The curse of the misbegotten: A tale of the house of O'Neill by Croswell Bowen1960
The fourth branch of Government by Douglass Cater1960
Two gentle men : the lives of George Herbert and Robert Herrick by Marchette Chute1960
Asa Gray, 1810-1888 by A. Hunter Dupree1960
A Life in the Theatre by Tyrone Guthrie1960
Life in the crystal palace by Alan Harrington1960
Act One: An Autobiography by Moss Hart1960
Edison: A Biography by Matthew Josephson1960
The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935 by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.1960
Human Nature and the Human Condition by Joseph Wood Krutch1960
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing1960
Alexander Hamilton: portrait in paradox by John Chester Miller1960
John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography by Samuel Eliot Morison1960
The War for the Union, Vol. 1: The Improvised War, 1861-1862 by Allan Nevins1960
The Marauders by Charlton Ogburn1960
Pickett's Charge by George Stewart1960
The Harmless People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas1960
The Years with Ross by James Thurber1960
Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël by J. Christopher Herold1959
The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt1959
Private by Lester Atwell1959
The Americans: The Colonial Experience by Daniel Boorstin1959
The Wall Between by Anne Braden1959
Naked to Mine Enemies: The Life of Cardinal Wolsey by Charles W. Ferguson1959
The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote1959
The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith1959
Only in America by Harry Golden1959
Russia, the atom and the West by George F. Kennan1959
Marlborough's Duchess by Louis Kronenberger1959
Journey to the beginning by Edgar Snow1959
The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke by Catherine Drinker Bowen1958
Mr. Baruch: The Man, the Myth, the Eighty Years by Margaret L. Coit1958
The Reformation by Will Durant1958
Alexander Hamilton in the American tradition by Louis M. Hacker1958
Poets in a Landscape by Gilbert Highet1958
Nuclear weapons and foreign policy by Henry Kissinger1958
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy1958
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard1958
The Twentieth Maine: A Classic Story of Joshua Chamberlain and His Volunteer Regiment by John J. Pullen1958
As France Goes by David Schoenbrun1958
Bridge to the Sun by Gwen Terasaki1958
Citadel: The Story of the U.S. Senate by William Smith White1958
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol 1 by George F. Kennan1957
John Quincy Adams and the Union by Samuel Flagg Bemis1957
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940 by James MacGregor Burns1957
This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton1957
Guides to Straight Thinking, With 13 Common Fallacies. by Stuart Chase1957
Atomic quest, a personal narrative by Arthur Holly Compton1957
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph by Frank Freidel1957
The Crucial Decade–and After by Eric F. Goldman1957
The Nun's Story by Kathryn Hulme1957
Richard the Third by Paul Murray Kendall1957
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy1957
Revolt of the moderates by Samuel Lubell1957
The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene by Perry Miller1957
The Transformations of Man by Lewis Mumford1957
Autumn Across America by Edwin Way Teale1957
Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South by Robert Penn Warren1957
The Organization Man by William H. Whyte1957
American in Italy by Herbert Kubly1956
The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman by Gay Wilson Allen1956
The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson1956
The land they fought for; the story of the South as the Confederacy, 1832-1865 by Clifford Dowdey1956
Inside Africa by John Gunther1956
The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter1956
Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties by Murray Kempton1956
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh1956
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer1956
Notre-Dame of Paris by Allan Temko1956
Memoirs, Volume 1: Year of Decisions by Harry S. Truman1956
The scrolls from the Dead Sea by Edmund Wilson1956
The measure of man: on freedom, human values, survival, and the modern temper by Joseph Wood Krutch1955
Scenes and portraits : memories of childhood and youth by Van Wyck Brooks1955
The Challenge of Man's Future: An Inquiry Concerning the Condition of Man During the Years That Lie Ahead by Harrison Brown1955
But We Were Born Free: by Elmer Holmes Davis1955
The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill by Hermann Hagedorn1955
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History. Vol. 1, Indians and Spain. Vol. 2, Mexico and the United States. 2 vols. in one by Paul Horgan1955
Bent's Fort by David Lavender1955
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years {set of three volumes} by Carl Sandburg1955
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner1955
The Second Tree from the Corner by E. B. White1955
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton1954
The Course of Empire by Bernard DeVoto1953
Ushant: An Essay by Conrad Aiken1953
The Big Change: America Transforms Itself 1900-1950 by Frederick Lewis Allen1953
The confident years: 1885-1915 by Van Wyck Brooks1953
Witness by Whittaker Chambers1953
Rome and a Villa by Eleanor Clark1953
Beyond the high Himalayas by William O. Douglas1953
George Washington Volume 5 Victory with the Help of France by Douglas Southall Freeman1953
Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform by Eric F. Goldman1953
The spirit of liberty; papers and addresses by Learned Hand1953
William Faulkner: A Critical Study (4th Edition) by Irving Howe1953
The Uses of the Past: Profiles of Former Societies by Herbert J. Muller1953
Lincoln the President: Midstream by J. G. Randall1953
Abraham Lincoln by Benjamin P. Thomas1953
Sam Clemens of Hannibal by Dixon Wecter1953
Grant Rises in the West: The First Year, 1861-1862 by Kenneth P. Williams1953
The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties by Edmund Wilson1953
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson1952
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt1952
Life in America by Marshall B. Davidson1952
Henry James by F. W. Dupee1952
Birth of a World: Bolivar in Terms of His People by Waldo David Frank1952
Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman1952
The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths by Erich Fromm1952
The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People by Oscar Handlin1952
A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin1952
Jefferson and the Rights of Man by Dumas Malone1952
White Collar: The American Middle Classes by C. Wright Mills1952
The Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Arthur Mizener1952
The conduct of life by Lewis Mumford1952
Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey1952
Thomas Jefferson : A Biography by Nat Schachner1952
The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (New Directions Paperbook) by William Carlos Williams1952
Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction by C. Vann Woodward1952
Herman Melville by Newton Arvin1951
The life of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph L. Rusk1950
The Universe and Dr. Einstein by Lincoln Barnett1950
The Mature Mind by H. A. Overstreet1950
This I Remember by Eleanor Roosevelt1950
Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith1950
Lincoln finds a general; a military study of the Civil War by Kenneth P. Williams1950

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WorkYear
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk2023
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera-Garza2023
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe2023
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh2023
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant2023
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig2023
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen2023
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer2023
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey2023
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams2023
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry2022
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke2022
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen2022
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras2022
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels2022
Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays by Anna Badkhen2022
Ted Kennedy: A Life by John A. Farrell2022
Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time by Natalie Hodges2022
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernandez2022
Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz2022
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles2021
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib2021
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire2021
Tastes Like War: A Memoir by Grace M. Cho2021
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace2021
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth2021
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee2021
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand2021
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America by Clint Smith2021
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis2021
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne2020
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio2020
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt2020
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland2020
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays) by Jerald Walker2020
Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto by Michelle Bowdler2020
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore2020
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl by Jonathan C. Slaght2020
Afropessimism by Frank B. III Wilderson2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson2020
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom2019
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom2019
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché2019
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer2019
Solitary by Albert Woodfox2019
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib2019
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin2019
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe2019
Burn the Place: A Memoir by Iliana Regan2019
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics) by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor2019
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart2018
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway2018
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson2018
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh2018
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler2018
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson2018
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll2018
Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War by Marwan Hisham2018
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen2018
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit2018
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen2017
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar2017
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann2017
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy Maclean2017
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.2017
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein2017
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein2017
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson2017
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi2016
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild2016
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen2016
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez2016
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson2016
America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History by Andrew Bacevich2016
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott2016
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen2016
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil2016
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha2016
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates2015
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann2015
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery2015
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power2015
Ordinary Light: A Memoir by Tracy K. Smith2015
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett2015
Mourning Lincoln by Martha Hodes2015
Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii by Susanna Moore2015
Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays by Michael Paterniti2015
Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir by Michael White2015
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos2014
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz Chast2014
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes by Anand Gopal2014
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr2014
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson2014
The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic by John Demos2014
The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942 by Nigel Hamilton2014
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson2014
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 by Ronald C. Rosbottom2014
Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic by Matthew Stewart2014
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer2013
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore2013
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower2013
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor2013
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright2013
Finding Florida by T. D. Allman2013
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami by Gretel Ehrlich2013
The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA by Scott C. Johnson2013
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 by James Oakes2013
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout2013
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo2012
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum2012
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro2012
The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir by Domingo Martinez2012
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid2012
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt2011
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker2011
Love and Capital by Mary Gabriel2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable2011
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss2011
Just Kids by Patti Smith2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick2010
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W. Dower2010
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring2010
Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War by Megan Stack2010
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles2009
Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook by David M. Carroll2009
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Dr. Sean B. Carroll2009
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin2009
The Poison King : The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor2009
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) by Drew Gilpin Faust2008
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer2008
Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives by Jim Sheeler2008
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham2008
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner2007
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat2007
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens2007
Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad2007
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch2006
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran2006
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler2006
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright2006
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion2005
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius by Leo Damrosch2005
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer2005
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild2005
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle2004
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks2004
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer2004
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett by Jennifer Gonnerman2004
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt2004
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire2003
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum2003
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt2003
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D’Emilio2003
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson2003
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro2002
When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution by Devra Davis2002
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande2002
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert2002
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins by Steve Olson2002
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon2001
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood by Marie Arana2001
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nina Bernstein2001
My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark by David James Duncan2001
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross2001
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick2000
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life—1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun2000
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan2000
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century by David Levering Lewis2000
Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney2000
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower1999
Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier1999
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden1999
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation by John Phillip Santos1999
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman1999
Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball1998
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom1998
There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok by Yaffa Eliach1998
A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage by Beth Kephart1998
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer1998
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis1997
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer1997
My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid1997
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch1997
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus1997
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us by James Carroll1996
The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene1996
The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War by Paul Hendrickson1996
The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller by Cary Reich1996
Fruitful: A Real Mother by Anne Roiphe1996
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg1995
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia by Dennis Covington1995
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett1995
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr1995
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De La Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South by Maryanne Vollers1995
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland1994
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Putnam Demos1994
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer1994
Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society by John Edgar Wideman1994
In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff1994
United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal1993
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture by William R. Leach1993
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis1993
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Slotkin1993
Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson1993
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette1992
The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction by Edward L. Ayers1992
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick1992
Truman by David McCullough1992
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills1992
Freedom in the Making of Western Culture by Orlando Patterson1991
Why Americans Hate Politics by E. J. Dionne, Jr.1991
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction by Melissa Fay Greene1991
The Jameses: A Family Narrative by R. W. B. Lewis1991
Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Middlebrook1991
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow1990
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School by Samuel G. Freedman1990
Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician by Roger Morris1990
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh1990
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by T. H. Watkins1990
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman1989
Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years by McGeorge Bundy1989
Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century Ends by William Pfaff1989
Mother Country by Marilynne Robinson1989
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan1988
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner1988
The Rise of Modern Paganism by Peter Gay1988
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox1988
Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder by Jack McLaughlin1988
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes1987
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald1987
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick1987
Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics by Claudia Koonz1987
New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars by Robert A. M. Stern1987
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez1986
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower1986
The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune by Richard Kluger1986
The Young Hemingway by Michael S. Reynolds1986
Tombee: Portrait of a cotton planter by Theodore Rosengarten1986
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas1985
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity by Daniel J. Kevles1985
... The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall1985
Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 by Robert V. Remini1984
Becoming William James by Howard M. Feinstein1984
Thomas More: A Biography by Richard Marius1984
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka by Ernst Pawel1984
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty1984
Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870-81 by Leon Edel1963
Henry James: The Middle Years, 1881-95 by Leon Edel1963
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson1963
O'Neill by Arthur Gelb1963
Contemporaries by Alfred Kazin1963
The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait by Frederic Morton1963
Chekhov: A Biography by Ernest Joseph Simmons1963
John Adams by Page Smith1963
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman1963
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War by Edmund Wilson1963
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford1962
African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man by Robert Ardrey1962
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin1962
The will of Zeus; a history of Greece from the origins of Hellenic culture to the death of Alexander by Stringfellow Barr1962
The architecture of America; a social and cultural history by John E. Burchard1962
Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias by Rene Dubos1962
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs1962
Children of Sanchez by Oscar Lewis1962
A matter of life and death by Virgilia Peterson1962
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark Schorer1962
Lafcadio Hearn by Elizabeth Stevenson1962
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White1962
John Bunyan by Ola Elizabeth Winslow1962
Asimov's New Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov1961
The Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright (The Norton Library) by Peter Blake1961
Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813 by George Dangerfield1961
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Herbert Donald1961
My wilderness: the Pacific West by William O. Douglas1961
The Firmament of Time by Loren Eiseley1961
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces by Felix Frankfurter1961
Goodbye to a River: A Narrative by John Graves1961
The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936 by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.1961
Name And Address: An Autobiography by Thomas Stanley Matthews1961
Thomas Wolfe, a biography by Elizabeth Nowell1961
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann1960
The House of Intellect (Perennial Classics) by Jacques Barzun1960
Power without property; a new development in American political economy by Adolf Augustus Berle1960
The curse of the misbegotten: A tale of the house of O'Neill by Croswell Bowen1960
The fourth branch of Government by Douglass Cater1960
Two gentle men : the lives of George Herbert and Robert Herrick by Marchette Chute1960
Asa Gray, 1810-1888 by A. Hunter Dupree1960
A Life in the Theatre by Tyrone Guthrie1960
Life in the crystal palace by Alan Harrington1960
Act One: An Autobiography by Moss Hart1960
Edison: A Biography by Matthew Josephson1960
The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935 by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.1960
Human Nature and the Human Condition by Joseph Wood Krutch1960
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing1960
Alexander Hamilton: portrait in paradox by John Chester Miller1960
John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography by Samuel Eliot Morison1960
The War for the Union, Vol. 1: The Improvised War, 1861-1862 by Allan Nevins1960
The Marauders by Charlton Ogburn1960
Pickett's Charge by George Stewart1960
The Harmless People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas1960
The Years with Ross by James Thurber1960
Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël by J. Christopher Herold1959
The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt1959
Private by Lester Atwell1959
The Americans: The Colonial Experience by Daniel Boorstin1959
The Wall Between by Anne Braden1959
Naked to Mine Enemies: The Life of Cardinal Wolsey by Charles W. Ferguson1959
The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote1959
The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith1959
Only in America by Harry Golden1959
Russia, the atom and the West by George F. Kennan1959
Marlborough's Duchess by Louis Kronenberger1959
Journey to the beginning by Edgar Snow1959
The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke by Catherine Drinker Bowen1958
Mr. Baruch: The Man, the Myth, the Eighty Years by Margaret L. Coit1958
The Reformation by Will Durant1958
Alexander Hamilton in the American tradition by Louis M. Hacker1958
Poets in a Landscape by Gilbert Highet1958
Nuclear weapons and foreign policy by Henry Kissinger1958
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy1958
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard1958
The Twentieth Maine: A Classic Story of Joshua Chamberlain and His Volunteer Regiment by John J. Pullen1958
As France Goes by David Schoenbrun1958
Bridge to the Sun by Gwen Terasaki1958
Citadel: The Story of the U.S. Senate by William Smith White1958
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol 1 by George F. Kennan1957
John Quincy Adams and the Union by Samuel Flagg Bemis1957
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940 by James MacGregor Burns1957
This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton1957
Guides to Straight Thinking, With 13 Common Fallacies. by Stuart Chase1957
Atomic quest, a personal narrative by Arthur Holly Compton1957
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph by Frank Freidel1957
The Crucial Decade–and After by Eric F. Goldman1957
The Nun's Story by Kathryn Hulme1957
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy1957
Revolt of the moderates by Samuel Lubell1957
The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene by Perry Miller1957
The Transformations of Man by Lewis Mumford1957
Autumn Across America by Edwin Way Teale1957
Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South by Robert Penn Warren1957
The Organization Man by William H. Whyte1957
American in Italy by Herbert Kubly1956
The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman by Gay Wilson Allen1956
The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson1956
The land they fought for; the story of the South as the Confederacy, 1832-1865 by Clifford Dowdey1956
Inside Africa by John Gunther1956
The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter1956
Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties by Murray Kempton1956
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh1956
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer1956
Notre-Dame of Paris by Allan Temko1956
Memoirs, Volume 1: Year of Decisions by Harry S. Truman1956
The scrolls from the Dead Sea by Edmund Wilson1956
The measure of man: on freedom, human values, survival, and the modern temper by Joseph Wood Krutch1955
Scenes and portraits : memories of childhood and youth by Van Wyck Brooks1955
The Challenge of Man's Future: An Inquiry Concerning the Condition of Man During the Years That Lie Ahead by Harrison Brown1955
But We Were Born Free: by Elmer Holmes Davis1955
The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill by Hermann Hagedorn1955
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History. Vol. 1, Indians and Spain. Vol. 2, Mexico and the United States. 2 vols. in one by Paul Horgan1955
Bent's Fort by David Lavender1955
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years {set of three volumes} by Carl Sandburg1955
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner1955
The Second Tree from the Corner by E. B. White1955
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton1954
The Course of Empire by Bernard DeVoto1953
Ushant: An Essay by Conrad Aiken1953
The Big Change: America Transforms Itself 1900-1950 by Frederick Lewis Allen1953
The confident years: 1885-1915 by Van Wyck Brooks1953
Witness by Whittaker Chambers1953
Rome and a Villa by Eleanor Clark1953
Beyond the high Himalayas by William O. Douglas1953
George Washington Volume 5 Victory with the Help of France by Douglas Southall Freeman1953
Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform by Eric F. Goldman1953
The spirit of liberty; papers and addresses by Learned Hand1953
William Faulkner: A Critical Study (4th Edition) by Irving Howe1953
The Uses of the Past: Profiles of Former Societies by Herbert J. Muller1953
Lincoln the President: Midstream by J. G. Randall1953
Abraham Lincoln by Benjamin P. Thomas1953
Sam Clemens of Hannibal by Dixon Wecter1953
Grant Rises in the West: The First Year, 1861-1862 by Kenneth P. Williams1953
The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties by Edmund Wilson1953
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson1952
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt1952
Life in America by Marshall B. Davidson1952
Henry James by F. W. Dupee1952
Birth of a World: Bolivar in Terms of His People by Waldo David Frank1952
Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman1952
The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths by Erich Fromm1952
The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People by Oscar Handlin1952
A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin1952
Jefferson and the Rights of Man by Dumas Malone1952
White Collar: The American Middle Classes by C. Wright Mills1952
The Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Arthur Mizener1952
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Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey1952
Thomas Jefferson : A Biography by Nat Schachner1952
The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (New Directions Paperbook) by William Carlos Williams1952
Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction by C. Vann Woodward1952
Herman Melville by Newton Arvin1951
The life of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph L. Rusk1950
The Universe and Dr. Einstein by Lincoln Barnett1950
The Mature Mind by H. A. Overstreet1950
This I Remember by Eleanor Roosevelt1950
Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith1950
Lincoln finds a general; a military study of the Civil War by Kenneth P. Williams1950

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