Search Results for: American
Wrestling with Zion
by Tony Kushner“What is so very, very valuable about Wrestling With Zion is that it has given [the writers] a forum to say all of these things where they need not be…
Wagons West
by Frank McLynn“Fascinating. . . . McLynn, an Englishman, is new to the West, but he turns this seeming liability into a strength. . . . McLynn does a fine job, too,…
Thunder Run
by David Zucchino“Zucchino paints a vivid picture of the battle by stiching together the narratives of soldiers, officers, generals and Iraqis whom he interviewed during and after the war. . . ….
A Call to Heroism
by Peter H. Gibbon“This book is a delightful Grand Tour, taking us from war to sports to great literature. You will enjoy it.” —Jay Mathews, Education reporter for The Washington Post…
Badger Games
by Jon A. Jackson“It’s great fun to watch characters who began in another series take on a life of their own. . . . There is plenty of action, lots of low-key black…
Flight of the WASP
by Michael GrossFifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America’s history.
The Comeback
by Daniel de ViséFame. Fall. Redemption. The dramatic life story of America’s greatest cyclist, three-time winner of the Tour de France…
Late City
by Robert Olen ButlerA 115-year-old man lies on his deathbed as the 2016 election results arrive, and revisits his life in this moving story of love, fatherhood, and the American century from Pulitzer…
Bruce Jay Friedman
Bruce Jay Friedman (1930-2020) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Friedman had three children with his first wife, actress and teacher Ginger Howard, with whom he split in…
The Wonder Garden
by Lauren AcamporaA keen and brilliant observer of the strangeness that is American suburbia. Acampora joins the ranks of writers like John Cheever and Tom Perrotta in her incisive portrait of lives…
