Collier, Peter
The Rockefellers : an American dynasty
A history of four generations of the members of one of America’s most famous families, their lives, their great works, and their fortunes.
Commager, Henry Steele
The American mind
A broad survey of American ideas, economics, art, philosophy, religion, and society from the 1880’s until 1950, when it was written.
Cooke, Alistair
Alistair Cooke’s America
The author was a correspondent for the London Times, covering America both for newspapers and BBC radio. This richly illustrated book is filled with his unique and fresh insight into American culture and history.
Coontz, Stephanie
The way we never were : American families and the nostalgia trap
A historian takes a myth-busting look at the past two hundred years of American family life, examining statistics to show that the “good old days” were not always as we remember them.
Daniels, Roger
Guarding the golden door : American immigration policy and immigrants since 1882 Daniels provides a readable overview of the important but often inconsistent policies the U.S. has used to welcome or restrict immigrants, often with unintended consequences.
Donald, David
Lincoln reconsidered : essays on the Civil War era
A collection of essays that challenge some of the conventional wisdom of the causes and effects of the Civil War.
Drury, Allen
Advise and consent : a novel of Washinton politics
FICTION This novel was a bestseller in its day and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. It is a fictional account of the sensational Alger Hiss / Whittaker Chambers Communist spying case.
Ellis, Joseph J.
American sphinx : the character of Thomas Jefferson
This winner of the National Book Award examines the illustrious and often contradictory nature of one of our most revered presidents.
Fischer, David Hackett
Washington’s crossing
Fischer, a historian at Brandeis University, won the Pulitzer for this account of General Washington’s 1776 crossing of the Delaware River and subsequent victory over British troops and Hessian mercenaries in New Jersey.
Friedman, Thomas L.
Longitudes and attitudes : exploring the world after September 11
A collection of essays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist on how people around the world reacted to the tragedy of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Galbraith, John Kenneth
The affluent society
First published in 1958, this treatise by a well-known economist discusses the upheavals that have changed the global economy, as well as the production and distribution of wealth.
Garland, Joseph E.
Boston’s North Shore : being an account of life among the noteworthy, fashionable, wealthy, eccentric, and ordinary, 1823-1890
Boston’s Gold Coast : the North Shore, 1890-1929
These two books by a local historian examine the social history of the communities on the North Shore where the wealthy and ordinary came to relax and escape during the 19th century and the gilded age.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Lyndon Johnson and the American dream
Well-known and popular historian Goodwin writes a compelling account of the Johnson years showing his human side as well as the politics and policy of his administration.
Greene, Bob
Duty : a father, his son, and the man who won the war
Greene, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, writes a very personal memoir of his father, one of “the greatest generation,” and his hero, Paul Tibbets, who piloted the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The Rockefellers : an American dynasty
A history of four generations of the members of one of America’s most famous families, their lives, their great works, and their fortunes.
Commager, Henry Steele
The American mind
A broad survey of American ideas, economics, art, philosophy, religion, and society from the 1880’s until 1950, when it was written.
Cooke, Alistair
Alistair Cooke’s America
The author was a correspondent for the London Times, covering America both for newspapers and BBC radio. This richly illustrated book is filled with his unique and fresh insight into American culture and history.
Coontz, Stephanie
The way we never were : American families and the nostalgia trap
A historian takes a myth-busting look at the past two hundred years of American family life, examining statistics to show that the “good old days” were not always as we remember them.
Daniels, Roger
Guarding the golden door : American immigration policy and immigrants since 1882 Daniels provides a readable overview of the important but often inconsistent policies the U.S. has used to welcome or restrict immigrants, often with unintended consequences.
Donald, David
Lincoln reconsidered : essays on the Civil War era
A collection of essays that challenge some of the conventional wisdom of the causes and effects of the Civil War.
Drury, Allen
Advise and consent : a novel of Washinton politics
FICTION This novel was a bestseller in its day and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. It is a fictional account of the sensational Alger Hiss / Whittaker Chambers Communist spying case.
Ellis, Joseph J.
American sphinx : the character of Thomas Jefferson
This winner of the National Book Award examines the illustrious and often contradictory nature of one of our most revered presidents.
Fischer, David Hackett
Washington’s crossing
Fischer, a historian at Brandeis University, won the Pulitzer for this account of General Washington’s 1776 crossing of the Delaware River and subsequent victory over British troops and Hessian mercenaries in New Jersey.
Friedman, Thomas L.
Longitudes and attitudes : exploring the world after September 11
A collection of essays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist on how people around the world reacted to the tragedy of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Galbraith, John Kenneth
The affluent society
First published in 1958, this treatise by a well-known economist discusses the upheavals that have changed the global economy, as well as the production and distribution of wealth.
Garland, Joseph E.
Boston’s North Shore : being an account of life among the noteworthy, fashionable, wealthy, eccentric, and ordinary, 1823-1890
Boston’s Gold Coast : the North Shore, 1890-1929
These two books by a local historian examine the social history of the communities on the North Shore where the wealthy and ordinary came to relax and escape during the 19th century and the gilded age.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Lyndon Johnson and the American dream
Well-known and popular historian Goodwin writes a compelling account of the Johnson years showing his human side as well as the politics and policy of his administration.
Greene, Bob
Duty : a father, his son, and the man who won the war
Greene, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, writes a very personal memoir of his father, one of “the greatest generation,” and his hero, Paul Tibbets, who piloted the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima