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»American Culture |
Madeline Blais, In these Girls, Hope is Muscle (Warner Books, 1995). [women's high school basketball] |
Roger Daniels, Coming to America, A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life, 2nd edition (Harper Perennial, 2002). |
John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive, A Family Story from Early America (Alfred A. Knopf, 1994). |
Pamela Grundy, Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). |
William E. Leuchtenburg (Ed.), American Places, Encounters with History (Oxford University Press, 2000). |
David Maraniss, They Marched into Sunlight, War and Peace, America and Vietnam, October 1967 (Simon & Schuster, 2003). |
Gerald W. McFarland, A Scattered People; An American Family Moves West (Ivan R. Dee, Publishers, 1985). |
D. W. Meinig, The Shaping of America, A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, 4 vols. (Yale University Press, 1986, 1993, 1998, & 2004). |
Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis, Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton University Press, 1996). |
Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg, The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster, 1992). |
Jay Winik, April, 1865: The Month that Saved the Union (HarperCollins, 2001). |
Alfred F. Young, Masquerade, The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004). |
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»Biography |
Leonard Baker, Days of Sorrow, Days of Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews (Macmillan, 1978). |
Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (HarperCollins, 2000). |
Jane Howard, Margaret Mead, A Life (Simon & Schuster, 1984). |
Roy Jenkins, Churchill, A Biography (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2001). |
David Maraniss, When Pride Still Mattered, A Life of Vince Lombardi (Simon & Schuster, 1999.) |
Benjamin Platt Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 1952). |
William Taubman, Khrushchev, The Man and His Era (W. W. Norton, 2003). |
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»Fiction and Poetry (* assigned reading when I was a student and remaining with me over the years) |
*Willa Cather, My Ántonia (Hougton Mifflin, 1918). [Mariner Books, 1995] |
*Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859). [Signet Classic, 1997] |
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952). [Vintage, 1989] |
Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War (Vintage Books, 1993). |
*Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native (1878). [W.W. Norton, 1969] |
Primo Levi, If Not Now, When? (Summit, 1985). |
*Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith (Harcourt Brace, 1925). [Signet Classic, 1998] |
*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline (1882). [Pelican, 1999] |
Donald McCaig, Jacob's Ladder, A Novel of Virginia during the Civil War (W. W. Norton & Company, 1998). |
Peter Quinn, Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York (Viking, 1994). |
Ole Edvart Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth, Saga of the Prairie (1927). [HarperCollins, 1998] |
Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991). |
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: A Novel (1943). [Harper Trade, 1999] |
John Steinbeck, East of Eden (Penguin Books, 1952). |
Virginia Swift, Brown-Eyed Girl, A Novel of Suspense (HarperCollins, 2000). |
Junichiro Tanizaki, Makioka Sisters (Random House, 1967). [my colleague Rosemary E. Cowler, regards author as Japan's Henry James] |
*Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome (1912). [Modern Library Classics, 2001] |
*Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1888). [Metrobooks, 2001] |
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»Memoir and Reflection |
Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life (Atlanta Monthly Press, 1989). [author is daughter of Margaret Mead] |
Libby Beaman, The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880, as Presented by her Granddaughter (Houghton Mifflin, 1987). |
Jimmy Carter, An Hour Before Day Light, Memories of a Rural Boyhood (Simon & Schuster, 2001). |
Jung Chang, Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China (Anchor Books, 1991). |
Cathy Davidson, 36 Views of Mount Fuji; On Finding Myself in Japan (New American Library, 1993). |
Linda Greenlaw, The Lobster Chronicles, Life on a Very Small Island (Hyperion, 2002). |
Charlyne Hunter-Gault, In My Place (Vintage Books, 1992). |
Jane Jacobs (Ed.), A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska, The Story of Hannah Breece (Random House, 1995). |
John S. Service (Ed.), Golden Inches, The China Memoir of Grace Service (University of California Press, 1989). |
Stella Suberman, The Jew Store, A Family Memoir (Algonquin Books, 1998). |
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»Titles associated with The New Yorker |
Linda H. Davis, Onward and Upward, A Biography of Katherine S. White (Harper & Row, 1987). |
Isabel Russell, Katherine and E.B. White, An Affectionate Memoir (W.W. Norton & Company, 1988). |
Letters of E. B. White, collected and edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth (Harper & Row, 1976.) |
John McPhee, Coming into the Country (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1967). |
Rogers E. M. Whitaker and Tony Hiss, All Aboard with E. M. Frimbo, World's Great Railroad Buff, greatly expanded edition (Kodashna International, 1996.) |
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