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Once in a Lifetime
by Gavin Newsham“Newsham describes the audacious attempt to create a national sport from scratch in meticulous detail, and the story is fascinating”. This book is a gripping evocation of a glorious but…
Henry Miller
…printing of the celebrated and controversial Tropic of Cancer (1934); the book was banned in the United States at the time Grove Press printed it in 1961, which promptly initiated…
Bananas
by Peter Chapman“United Fruit essentially invented not only ‘the concept and reality of the banana republic,’ but also, as Chapman shows, the concept and reality of the modern banana. [A] witty, energetic…
Triangle
by David Von Drehle“[An] outstanding history. . . . [Von Drehle] has written what is sure to become the definitive account of the fire. . . . Triangle is social history at its…
Among the Dead
by Michael Tolkin“Forceful . . . moves forward relentlessly like a very commercial film or a very hungry shark.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times…
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…
Liberty’s First Crisis
by Charles SlackThe tumultuous early years of the United States are brought to life in this gripping account of the Sedition Act and its victims, including a firebrand congressman, a famous muckraking…
Neither Snow Nor Rain
by Devin LeonardFew institutions are as loved, as loathed, and as historically important as the United States Post Office, the subject of this landmark century-spanning social, political, and economic history.
Halsey’s Typhoon
by Bob Drury“Absorbing . . . A vivid tale of tragedy and gallantry at sea.” —Publishers Weekly…
Palden Gyatso
…the United States to call attention to the plight of the hundreds of political prisoners still behind bars in Tibet. In 1995 he gave evidence at the United Nations Commission…
