Author’s note: For those of you who may be interested in reading further, let me share with you my favorites. In boldface, I have identified some thirty books that I found particularly stimulating and provocative.
Abulafia, David. The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus. Yale University Press, 2008.
Ackerman, Carl W. George Eastman. Houghton Mifflin, 1930.
Ackerman, Kenneth J. Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield. Carroll & Graf, 2003.
Adams, Charles. For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization. Madison, 1993.
Adams, Samuel B. Mr. Kaiser Goes to Washington. University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Adams, William Howard. Jefferson’s Monticello. Cross River Press, 1983.
Adler, Bill. 500 Great Facts About America. Avon Books, 1992.
Agawa, Hiroyuki. The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1980.
Alden, John R. George Washington. Louisiana State University Press, 1996.
Alexander, Bevin. How America Got It Right. Crown, 2005.
______. How the South Could Have Won the Civil War: The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat. Crown, 2007.
Allison, Robert J. The Boston Tea Party. Commonwealth Editions, 2007.
Alperovitz, Gar. The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. HarperCollins, 1995.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Personal Reflections of an Historian. Simon & Schuster, 2002.
Anderson, Fred, and Andrew Cayton. The Dominion of War. Viking, 2004.
Anderson, Jervis. A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait. University of California Press, 1972.
Andrews, Wayne. The Vanderbilt Legend: The Story of the Vanderbilt Family. Harcourt Brace, 1941.
Anthony, Carl S. Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era. William Morrow, 2005.
Armbruster, Maxim E. The Presidents of the United States. 6th edition. Horizon Press, 1975.
Ashby, LeRoy. With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830. University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
Ayton, Mel. The JFK Assassination: Dispelling the Myths. Woodfield Publishing (UK), 2002.
Bacevich, Andrew J. The New American Militarism. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Bagley, Will. Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows. University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.
Baida, Peter. Poor Richard’s Legacy: American Business Values from Benjamin Franklin to Donald Trump. William Morrow, 1990.
Bailey, Thomas A. A Diplomatic History of the American People. Appleton-Century, 1955.
________. Presidential Greatness. Appleton-Century, 1966.
Ballard, Robert D. The Discovery of the Titanic. Madison Publishing, 1987.
________. Return to Titanic. National Geographic Society, 2004.
Bamford, James. Body of Secrets. Random House/Anchor Books, 2001.
Barnet, Richard J. The Rocket’s Red Glare: When America Goes to War—The Presidents and the People. Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Beattie, Owen, and John Geiger. Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (revised edition). Greystone Books (UK), 2004.
Benford, Timothy B. World War II Flashback. Longmeadow Press, 1991.
Bernier, Olivier. The World in 1800. John Wiley, 2000.
Bernstein, Peter L. Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation. W. W. Norton, 2005.
Bernstein, William J. The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created. McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Best, Joel. More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues. University of California Press, 2004.
Bethell, Tom. The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages. St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998.
Bird, Kai, and Martin J. Sherwin. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Birmingham, Stephen. Our Crowd. Harper & Row, 1967.
_________. America’s Secret Aristocracy. Little, Brown, 1987.
Bishop, Jim. The Day Lincoln Was Shot. Harper & Bros., 1955.
Bloch, Marc. The Historian’s Craft. Random House/Vintage, 1964.
Bodanis, David. The Secret House. Simon & Schuster, 1986.
_________. E = mc2. A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation. Walker & Co., 2000.
Boller, Paul F., Jr. Presidential Anecdotes. Penguin, 1982.
Bordewich, Fergus M. Washington: The Making of the American Capital. HarperCollins/Amistad, 2008.
Borgstrom, Georg. World Food Resources. Intext Educational Publishers, 1973.
Boritt, Gabor S., ed. Why the Confederacy Lost. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Boyle, David. Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and the Race for America. Walker & Co., 2008.
Bragg, Melvyn. The Adventure of English. Hodder & Stoughton (UK), 2003.
Brandt, Clare. The Man in the Mirror: A Life of Benedict Arnold. Random House, 1994.
Brayer, Elizabeth. George Eastman. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Brinkley, David. Washington Goes to War. Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
Brinkley, Douglas. Wheels for the World. Viking, 2003.
Brittain, John A. Inheritance and the Inequality of Material Wealth. Brookings Institution, 1978.
Brown, Dee. The Year of the Century: 1876. Scribner’s, 1966.
Brown, Peter Harry, and Pat A. Broeske. Howard Hughes: The Untold Story. Dutton, 1996.
Brown, Walt. The People vs. Lee Harvey Oswald. Carroll & Graf, 1992.
Buchanan, Patrick J. The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization. St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
Buchanan, Rowley, and Tollison, eds. Deficits. Blackwell, 1987.
Bugliosi, Vincent. Reclaiming History: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy. W. W. Norton, 2007.
Burns, Christopher. Deadly Decisions: How False Knowledge Sank the Titanic, Blew Up the Shuttle, and Led America into War. Prometheus Books, 2008.
Burns, Ric, and James Sanders. New York: An Illustrated History. Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
Butler, Daniel Allen. The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost. Casemate, 2009.
Canto, Christophe, and Odile Faliu. The History of the Future. Flammarion (France), 1993.
Caroli, Betty Boyd. The Roosevelt Women. Basic Books, 1998.
Cassidy, James H. Demography in Early America: Beginnings of the Statistical Mind. Harvard University Press, 1969.
Catton, Bruce. The War Lords of Washington. Harcourt Brace, 1948.
Cerf, Christopher, and Victor Navasky. The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation. Pantheon Books, 1984.
Cheney, Margaret. Tesla: Man Out of Time. Dorset Press, 1981.
Chernow, Ron. House of Morgan. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.
Childs, William R. The Texas Railroad Commission. Texas A&M University Press, 2005.
Chirnside, Mark. The Olympic-Class Ships: Olympic-Titanic-Britannic. Tempus Publishing (UK), 2004.
Choate, Pat. Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Churchill, Winston. The Second World War. 5 vols. Houghton Mifflin, 1951.
Cliff, Nigel. The Shakespeare Riots. Random House, 2007.
Collins, Ace. Tragedies of American History: 13 Stories of Human Error and Natural Disaster. Plume Penguin, 2003.
Collins, L. M. The Sinking of the Titanic: The Mystery Solved. Souvenir Press Ltd. (UK), 2004.
Connelly, Thomas L. The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
Conway, J. North. American Literacy: Fifty Books That Define Our Culture and Ourselves. William Morrow, 1993.
Conwell, Russell H. Acres of Diamonds. Harper & Bros., 1915.
Cook, Blanche Wiesen. Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. I: 1884–1933. Viking Penguin, 1992.
Cook, Don. The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760–1785. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.
Cooper, John M. The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. Harvard University Press, 1983.
Cords, Nicholas, and Patrick Gerster. Myth and the American Experience. Glencoe Press, 1973.
Costello, John. Days of Infamy: MacArthur, Roosevelt, Churchill—The Shocking Truth Revealed. Pocket Books, 1994.
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. A Social History of American Technology. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Cowley, Robert, ed. What If?: The World’s Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been. Berkley Books, 2000.
Craft, David. The Negro Leagues. Crescent Books, 1993.
Crapol, Edward J. John Tyler. University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Crawford, Alan Pell. Unwise Passions. Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Creamer, Robert W. Babe: The Legend Comes to Life. Penguin, 1974.
Crichton, Judy. America 1900. Henry Holt, 1998.
Cristol, A. Jay. The Liberty Incident. Potomac Books, 2002.
Croffut, W. A. The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune. Bedford, Clarke & Co., 1886. Cunliffe, Marcus. George Washington. New American Library, 1982.
Curtis, James C. The Fox at Bay: Martin Van Buren and the Presidency, 1837–1841. University Press of Kentucky, 1970.
Daalder, Ivo H., and James M. Lindsay. America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy. Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
Dalton, Kathleen. Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Davie, Michael. Titanic: The Death and Life of a Legend. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
Davies, Norman. Europe at War: 1939–1945. Macmillan (UK), 2006.
Davis, Kenneth C. Don’t Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History But Never Learned. Avon Books, 1990.
de Luigi, Ludovico. Viaggiatore dell’Arte. Edizioni Galleria Ravagnan (Italy), 2002.
Deford, Frank. Big Bill Tilden: The Triumphs and the Tragedy. Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Denton, Sally. American Massacre. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
DiLorenzo, Thomas J. How Capitalism Saved America. Crown Forum, 2004.
Dobbs, Michael. Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America. Random House/Vintage Books, 2005.
Dobell, Byron, ed. A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage. American Heritage, 1985.
Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Donaldson, Gary A. America at War Since 1945. Praeger, 1996.
Dos Passos, John. Mr. Wilson’s War. Hamish Hamilton (London), 1963.
Dower, John. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. W. W. Norton, 1999.
Drucker, Peter F. Adventures of a Bystander. Harper & Row, 1979.
Dwyer, Jim, and Kevin Flynn. 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers. Times Books, 2005.
Edsel, Robert M., The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. Center Street (Hachette), 2009.
________. Rescuing Da Vinci, Laurel Publishing, 2006.
Egan, Timothy. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Suffered the Great American Dust Bowl. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Eicher, David J. Robert E. Lee: A Life Portrait. Taylor Publishing, 1997.
__________. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. Simon & Schuster, 2001.
___________. Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War. Little, Brown, 2006.
Elias, Stephen N. Alexander T. Stewart: The Forgotten Merchant Prince. Praeger, 1992.
Elphick, Peter. Liberty: The Ships That Won the War. Chatham Publishing (London), 2001.
Ennes, James M., Jr. Assault on the Liberty. Ballantine Books, 1987.
Ephron, Nora. Wallflower at the Orgy. Bantam, 1987.
Evans, Harold. The American Century. Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
___________. They Made America. Little, Brown, 2004.
Everett, Marshall. Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic. L. H. Walter (UK), 1912.
Faber, Doris. The Life of Lorena Hickok: E.R.’s Friend. William Morrow, 1980.
Fast, Howard. Haym Salomon: Son of Liberty. Julian Messner, 1941.
Faulkner, William. Go Down Moses. Random House Modern Library, 1955.
Fay, Paul B. The Pleasure of His Company. Harper & Row, 1966.
Ferrell, Robert H., ed. Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S Truman. Harper & Row, 1980.
___________. Harry S. Truman: His Life on the Family Farms. High Plains Publishing, 1991.
__________. Harry S. Truman: A Life. University of Missouri Press, 1994.
__________. Truman, A Centenary Remembrance. Viking Press, 1994.
Fiennes, Ranulph. Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott’s Antarctic Quest. Hyperion, 2004.
Fineman, Howard. The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country. Random House, 2008.
Fite, Emerson David. The Presidential Campaign of 1860. Kennikat Press, 1967 (reprint of 1911 edition).
Fleming, Thomas. 1776: Year of Illusions. W. W. Norton, 1975.
___________. The New Dealers’ War: The War Within World War II. Basic Books, 2001.
___________. The Louisiana Purchase. John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
___________. Washington’s Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge. Smithsonian, 2005.
Flink, James J. The Automobile Age. MIT Press, 1988.
Flood, Charles Bracelen. 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History. Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Fogelman, Edwin. The Decision to Use the Bomb. Scribner’s, 1964.
Fradin, Dennis Brindell. The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence. Walker & Co., 2002.
Frank, Richard B. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. Random House, 1999.
Friedenberg, Daniel M. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land: The Plunder of Early America. Prometheus Books, 1992.
Friedman, John S. The Secret Histories. Picador, 2005.
Friedman, Milton. A Program for Monetary Stability. Fordham University Press, 1960.
Fromkin, David. In the Time of the Americans. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
________. The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners. Penguin, 2008.
Gallagher, Gary W., and Alan T. Nolan, eds. The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History. Indiana University Press, 2000.
Gardiner, A. G. Leaves in the Wind. J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. (UK), 1920.
Gardiner, Juliet. Wartime: Britain 1939–1945. Headline (UK), 2004.
Gardner, Gerald. All the Presidents’ Wits: The Power of Presidential Humor. Beech Tree Books, 1986.
Gayley, Charles Mills. Shakespeare and the Founders of Liberty in America. Macmillan, 1917.
Gee, H. L. American England. Methuen & Co. (London), 1943.
Gibson, James William. The Perfect War: The War We Couldn’t Lose and How We Did. Random House Vintage, 1988.
Gifford, Don. The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception 1798–1984. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1984.
Goff, John. Robert Todd Lincoln: A Man in His Own Right. University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.
Goldstein, Joshua S. The Real Price of War: How You Pay for the War on Terror. New York University Press, 2004.
Goldstein, Rhoda L., ed. Black Life and Culture in the United States. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1971.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Gordon, John Steele. The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
___________. An Empire of Wealth: The Epic Story of American Economic Power. HarperCollins, 2004.
Gosset, Thomas F. Race: The History of an Idea in America. Southern Methodist University Press, 1963; Schocken, 1977.
Gould, Stephen J. Bully for Brontosaurus. W. W. Norton, 1992.
Goulden, Joseph C. The Best Years: 1945–1950. Atheneum, 1976.
Graber, Doris A. Public Opinion, the President, and Foreign Policy. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968.
Grant, George. Forgotten Presidents: America’s Leaders Before George Washington. Cumberland House, 2001.
Greenfield, Jeff. “Oh Waiter! One Order of Crow!”: Inside the Strangest Presidential Election Finish in American History. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001.
Grondahl, Paul. I Rose Like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt. Free Press, 2004.
Groves, Leslie. Now It Can Be Told. Da Capo Press, 1982.
Gullan, Harold I. First Fathers: The Men Who Inspired Our Presidents. John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
Gunderson, Gerald. The Wealth Creators: An Entrepreneurial History of the United States. Truman Talley Books, 1989.
Gunther, Max. The Very, Very Rich and How They Got That Way. Playboy Press, 1973.
Haber, Louis. Black Pioneers of Science and Invention. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
Hagood, Wesley O. Presidential Sex: From the Founding Fathers to Bill Clinton. Birch Lane Press (Carol Publishing Group), 1993.
Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. Random House, 1969.
_________. The Fifties. Random House, 1993.
_________, ed. Defining a Nation: Our America and the Sources of Its Strength. Tehabi Books (National Geographic), 2003.
Hamilton-Patterson, James. The Great Deep. Random House, 1992.
Hanson, Victor Davis. Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power. Anchor Books, 2002.
Harris, John. The Boston Tea Party. Boston Globe 200th Anniversary, 1974.
Hartmann, Thom. What Would Jefferson Do? Random House, 2004.
Harvey, Robert. A Few Bloody Noses: The American War of Independence. John Murray (UK), 2001.
Hashimoto, Mochitsura. Sunk: The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet, 1941–1945. Henry Holt, 1954.
Hastings, Max. The Korean War. Simon & Schuster, 1987.
________. Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45. Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Heenan, David. Double Lives. Davies-Black Publishing, 2002.
Hewitt, Don. Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes. Public Affairs, 2001.
Holt, Patricia Lee. George Washington Had No Middle Name. Citadel Press, 1988.
Holzer, Harold. Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President. Addison-Wesley, 1993.
___________. Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860–1861.
Simon & Schuster, 2008.
Horan, Julie L. The Porcelain God: A Social History of the Toilet. Birch Lane Press, 1996.
Hover, Herman D. Fourteen Presidents Before Washington. Dodd Mead, 1985.
Howe, David Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Hubbard, Elbert. A Message to Garcia. Peter Pauper Press, 1982.
Huggins, Nathan. Black Odyssey: The Afro-American Ordeal in Slavery. Pantheon Books, 1977. Humes, James C. Instant Eloquence. Harper & Row, 1973.
___________. The Ben Franklin Factor: Selling One to One. William Morrow, 1992.
___________. Which President Killed a Man? MJF Books, 2003.
Hyman, Sidney. The American President. Harper & Brothers, 1954.
Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin. Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Jeffers, H. Paul. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.: The Life of a Hero. Presidio Press, 2002.
Jennings, Francis. The Founders of America. W. W. Norton, 1994.
Jennings, Walter. A History of Economic Progress in the U.S. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1926.
Johnson, Haynes, and David S. Broder. The System. Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Johnson, Paul. A History of the American People. Harper Perennial, 1999.
Johnson, Timothy D. Winfield Scott: The Quest for Military Glory. University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Jonnes, Jill. Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the Race to Electrify the World. Random House, 2003.
Kaplan, Fred. The Wizards of Armageddon. Stanford University Press, 1983.
Keim, Kevin, and Peter Keim. A Grand Old Flag: A History of the United States Through Its Flags. DK Publishing, 2007.
Kennedy, Frances H., ed. The Civil War Battlefield. Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
Kessner, Thomas. Capital City. Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Keyes, Ralph. The Wit and Wisdom of Harry Truman. HarperCollins, 1995.
Keyssar, Helene, and Vladimir Pozner. Remembering War. Oxford University Press, 1990.
Keyzer-Andre, Henri, with Hy Steirman. Age of Heroes. Hastings House, 1993.
Kimmel, Lewis H. Federal Budget and Fiscal Policy, 1789–1958. Brookings Institution, 1958.
Kirwan, Albert D. John J. Crittenden: The Struggle for the Union. University of Kentucky Press, 1962.
Kitman, Marvin. George Washington’s Expense Account. Perennial Library, 1988.
Klein, Herbert S. The Atlantic Slave Trade. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Klos, Stanley L. President Who? Forgotten Founders. Estoric.com, 2004.
Krakauer, Jon. Under the Banner of Heaven. Doubleday, 2003.
Kukla, John. A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Kunhardt, Dorothy Meserve, and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. Twenty Days. Castle Books, 1993.
Kuntz, Tom, ed. The Titanic Disaster Hearings: The Official Transcript of the 1912 Senate Investigation. Pocket Books, 1990.
Kurzman, Dan. Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Atheneum, 1990.
Lachman, Charles. The Last Lincolns: The Rise and Fall of a Great American Family. Union Square Press, 2008.
LaFeber, Walter. The American Age. Norton, 1989.
Lamb, Brian. Booknotes: Life Stories: Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America. Three Rivers Press, 1999.
____________. Booknotes on American Character: People, Politics, and Conflict in American History. Perseus Press, 2004.
Lamb, Brian, ed. Booknotes: Stories from American History. Penguin, 2002.
Lamb, Martha J. History of the City of New York. A. S. Barnes & Co., 1877.
Lane, Frederic C. Ships for Victory. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1951 (2001 edition).
Langguth, A. J. Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution. Simon & Schuster, 1988.
Larsen, Erik. Isaac’s Storm. Crown, 1999.
Lebergott, Stanley. The Americans: An Economic Record. W. W. Norton, 1984.
___________. Pursuing Happiness: American Consumers in the Twentieth Century. Princeton University Press, 1993.
Lech, Raymond. All the Drowned Sailors. Stein & Day, 1982.
Leckie, Robert. Delivered from Evil: The Saga of World War II. Harper & Row, 1987.
_________. The Wars of America. 2 vol. HarperCollins, 1992, 1993.
_________. From Sea to Shining Sea. HarperCollins, 1993.
Leepson, Marc. Saving Monticello: The Levy Family’s Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built. Free Press, 2001.
Lencek, Lena, and Gideon Bosker. The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth. Viking Penguin, 1998.
Levine, Lawrence. Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Harvard University Press, 1988.
Lindaman, Dana, and Kyle Ward. History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History. The New Press, 2004.
Linklater, Andro. Measuring America. HarperCollins, 2002.
Loewen, James W. Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Got Wrong. Touchstone, 1999.
London, Joshua E. Victory in Tripoli. John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
Lord, Walter. The Night Lives On. William Morrow, 1986.
Lorenz-Meyer, Martin. Safehaven: The Allied Pursuit of Nazi Assets Abroad. University of Missouri Press, 2007.
Louis, David. 2001 Fascinating Facts. Greenwich House, 1983.
Love, John F. McDonald’s: Behind the Arches. Bantam Books, 1986.
Lowenthal, David. The Past Is a Foreign Country. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Lukacs, John. Outgrowing Democracy: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century. Doubleday, 1984.
Macartney, Clarence Edward. Lincoln and His Generals. Dorrance & Co., 1925.
Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and His Time. vol. 6, The Sage of Monticello. Little, Brown, 1981.
Manchester, William. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964. Little, Brown, 1978.
Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Mayhew, Robert. Essays on Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. Lexington Books, 2006.
McCloskey, Donald N., ed. Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economy. Oxford University Press, 1993.
McCullough, David. Brave Companions: Portraits in History. Simon & Schuster, 1992.
___________. Truman. Touchstone Books, 2003.
_________. 1776. Simon & Schuster, 2005.
McDonald, Forrest. E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776–1787.
Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
McFeely, William S. Grant. Norton, 1982.
McMillan, Priscilla J. The Ruin of Robert J. Oppenheimer. Viking, 2005.
McMurtry, Larry. Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West. Simon & Schuster, 2005.
McNamara, Robert S. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. Random House Vintage Books, 1996.
Melton, Carol Wilcox. Between War and Peace: Woodrow Wilson and the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918–1921. Mercer University Press, 2004.
Menand, Louis. The Metaphysical Club. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
Messer, Peter C. Stories of Independence: Identity, Ideology, and History in Eighteenth-Century America. Northern Illinois University Press, 2005.
Milgrim, Shirley. Haym Salomon: Liberty’s Son. Jewish Publication Society, 1979.
Miller, William Lee. Lincoln’s Virtues. Random House Vintage Books, 2003.
Milton, Giles. Nathaniel’s Nutmeg. Hodder & Stoughton (UK), 1999.
Monaghan, Jay. Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs. Bobbs-Merrill, 1945 (1997 University of Nebraska Press edition).
Moore, John L. Speaking of Washington. Congressional Quarterly Books, 1993.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. Three Centuries of Harvard: 1636–1936. Harvard University Press, 1936.
__________. John Paul Jones: A Sailor’s Biography. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1959.
___________. The Oxford History of the American People. Oxford University Press, 1965.
__________. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. vol. 4. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1967 (reprint of 1949 edition).
Morse, Arthur D. While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy. Random House, 1967.
Morse, John T., Jr. American Statesmen. Houghton Mifflin, 1898.
Murray, Charles. Real Education. Crown, 2008.
Myers, Margaret G. A Financial History of the United States. Columbia University Press, 1970.
Nettels, Curtis P. The Emergence of a National Economy. 1775–1815. Harper & Row, 1962.
Newman, John M. JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue and the Struggle for Power. Warner Books, 1992.
Nicholas, Lynn H. The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War. Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Noble, William. Bookbanning in America. Paul S. Eriksson, 1990.
Nolan, Alan T. Lee Considered. University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Norman, Michael M, and Elizabeth M. Norman. Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009.
Nye, Peter Joffre, with Jeff Groman and Mark Tyson. The Six-Day Bicycle Races: America’s Jazz-Age Sport. Van Der Plas Publications/Cycle Publishing, 2006.
Oates, Stephen B. With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Harper & Row, 1977.
___________. Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths. Harper & Row, 1984.
Ogelsby, Carl. The JFK Assassination: The Facts and the Theories. Signet Books, 1992.
Olmsted, Frederick Law. The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave Trade. 2 vols. Mason Brothers (New York), 1861.
Packard, Vance. The Ultra Rich: How Much Is Too Much. Little, Brown, 1989.
Packer, George. The Assassin’s Gate. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005.
Panati, Charles. Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things. Harper & Row, 1987.
Parrish, Thomas. The American Flag. Simon & Schuster, 1973.
Partridge, Bellamy, and Otto Bettman. As We Were: Family Life in America, 1850–1900. McGraw-Hill, 1946.
Patterson, Jerry E. The Vanderbilts. Harry N. Abrams, 1989.
Patton, Phil. Made in U.S.A. Grove Weidenfeld, 1992.
Paulos, John Allen. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences. Hill & Wang, 1988.
Payton, Walter, with Don Yaeger. Never Die Easy: the Autobiography of Walter Payton. Villard Books, 2000.
Perry, Mark. Grant and Twain. Random House, 2004.
Persico, Joseph E. Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage. Random House, 2001.
Peterson, Edward N. The American Occupation of Germany. Wayne State University Press, 1977.
Peterson, Peter G. Facing Up: How to Rescue the Economy from Crushing Debt and Restore the American Dream. Simon & Schuster, 1993.
___________. Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What We Can Do About It. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Petillo, Carol M. Douglas MacArthur: The Philippine Years. Indiana University Press, 1981.
Phillips, Cabell. The Truman Presidency. Macmillan, 1966.
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