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Announced:
november 15: Winner2023 Nyeste
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Winner 54

VærkÅr
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History af Ned Blackhawk2023
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation af Imani Perry2022
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake af Tiya Miles2021
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X af Les Payne2020
The Yellow House: A Memoir af Sarah M. Broom2019
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke af Jeffrey C. Stewart2018
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia af Masha Gessen2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America af Ibram X. Kendi2016
Between the World and Me af Ta-Nehisi Coates2015
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China af Evan Osnos2014
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America af George Packer2013
Bag det evigt smukke af Katherine Boo2012
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern af Stephen Greenblatt2011
Just kids af Patti Smith2010
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt af T. J. Stiles2009
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family af Annette Gordon-Reed2008
CIA - fra den kolde krig til krigen mod terror af Tim Weiner2007
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl af Timothy Egan2006
Et år med magisk tænkning af Joan Didion2005
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age af Kevin Boyle2004
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy af Carlos Eire2003
Master of the Senate af Robert A. Caro2002
Helvedes malstrøm : en bog om depressionens anatomi af Andrew Solomon2001
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex af Nathaniel Philbrick2000
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II af John W. Dower1999
Slaves in the Family af Edward Ball1998
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson af Joseph J. Ellis1997
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us af James Carroll1996
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism af Tina Rosenberg1995
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter af Sherwin B. Nuland1994
United States: Essays 1952-1992 af Gore Vidal1993
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story af Paul Monette1992
Freedom in the Making of Western Culture af Orlando Patterson1991
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance af Ron Chernow1990
From Beirut to Jerusalem af Thomas L. Friedman1989
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam af Neil Sheehan1988
The Making of the Atomic Bomb af Richard Rhodes1987
Arctic Dreams af Barry Lopez1986
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families af J. Anthony Lukas1985
Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 af Robert V. Remini1984
Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870-81 af Leon Edel1963
Henry James: The Middle Years, 1881-95 af Leon Edel1963
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects af Lewis Mumford1962
James Joyce af Richard Ellmann1960
Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël af J. Christopher Herold1959
The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke af Catherine Drinker Bowen1958
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol 1 af George F. Kennan1957
American in Italy af Herbert Kubly1956
The measure of man: on freedom, human values, survival, and the modern temper af Joseph Wood Krutch1955
A Stillness at Appomattox af Bruce Catton1954
The Course of Empire af Bernard DeVoto1953
Havet omkring os af Rachel Carson1952
Herman Melville af Newton Arvin1951
The life of Ralph Waldo Emerson af Ralph L. Rusk1950

Finalist 357

VærkÅr
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History af Ned Blackhawk2023
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice af Cristina Rivera-Garza2023
Ordinary Notes af Christina Sharpe2023
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir af Raja Shehadeh2023
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World af John Vaillant2023
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation af Imani Perry2022
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness af Meghan O'Rourke2022
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus af David Quammen2022
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir af Ingrid Rojas Contreras2022
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice af Robert Samuels2022
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake af Tiya Miles2021
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance af Hanif Abdurraqib2021
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains af Lucas Bessire2021
Tastes Like War: A Memoir af Grace M. Cho2021
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America af Nicole Eustace2021
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X af Les Payne2020
The Undocumented Americans af Karla Cornejo Villavicencio2020
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory af Claudio Saunt2020
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir af Jenn Shapland2020
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays) af Jerald Walker2020
The Yellow House: A Memoir af Sarah M. Broom2019
Thick: And Other Essays af Tressie McMillan Cottom2019
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance af Carolyn Forché2019
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present af David Treuer2019
Solitary af Albert Woodfox2019
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke af Jeffrey C. Stewart2018
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation af Colin G. Calloway2018
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic af Victoria Johnson2018
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth af Sarah Smarsh2018
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights af Adam Winkler2018
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia af Masha Gessen2017
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge af Erica Armstrong Dunbar2017
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America af Frances FitzGerald2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI af David Grann2017
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America af Nancy Maclean2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America af Ibram X. Kendi2016
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right af Arlie Russell Hochschild2016
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War af Viet Thanh Nguyen2016
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America af Andrés Reséndez2016
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy af Heather Ann Thompson2016
Between the World and Me af Ta-Nehisi Coates2015
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs af Sally Mann2015
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness af Sy Montgomery2015
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran af Carla Power2015
Ordinary Light: A Memoir af Tracy K. Smith2015
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China af Evan Osnos2014
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir af Roz Chast2014
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes af Anand Gopal2014
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh af John Lahr2014
The Meaning of Human Existence af Edward O. Wilson2014
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America af George Packer2013
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin af Jill Lepore2013
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields af Wendy Lower2013
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 af Alan Taylor2013
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief af Lawrence Wright2013
Bag det evigt smukke af Katherine Boo2012
Jerntæppet : Østeuropas fald 1944-1956 af Anne Applebaum2012
The Passage of Power af Robert A. Caro2012
The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir af Domingo Martinez2012
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East af Anthony Shadid2012
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern af Stephen Greenblatt2011
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism af Deborah Baker2011
Love and Capital af Mary Gabriel2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention af Manning Marable2011
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout af Lauren Redniss2011
Just kids af Patti Smith2010
I ly af mørket : nordkoreanske skæbner af Barbara Demick2010
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq af John W. Dower2010
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade af Justin Spring2010
Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War af Megan Stack2010
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt af T. J. Stiles2009
Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook af David M. Carroll2009
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species af Dr. Sean B. Carroll2009
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City af Greg Grandin2009
The Poison King : The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy af Adrienne Mayor2009
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family af Annette Gordon-Reed2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) af Drew Gilpin Faust2008
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals af Jane Mayer2008
Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives af Jim Sheeler2008
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order af Joan Wickersham2008
CIA - fra den kolde krig til krigen mod terror af Tim Weiner2007
Brother, I'm Dying af Edwidge Danticat2007
Gud er ikke stor: Hvordan religion forpester alt af Christopher Hitchens2007
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution af Woody Holton2007
Ralph Ellison: A Biography af Arnold Rampersad2007
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl af Timothy Egan2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 af Taylor Branch2006
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone af Rajiv Chandrasekaran2006
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China af Peter Hessler2006
Al-Qaida - vejen til 11. september af Lawrence Wright2006
Et år med magisk tænkning af Joan Didion2005
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion af Alan Burdick2005
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius af Leo Damrosch2005
102 minutter : den utrolige historie om kampen for at overleve inde i tvillingetårnene af Jim Dwyer2005
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves af Adam Hochschild2005
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age af Kevin Boyle2004
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) af National Commission on Terrorist Attacks2004
Washington's Crossing af David Hackett Fischer2004
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett af Jennifer Gonnerman2004
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare af Stephen Greenblatt2004
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy af Carlos Eire2003
Gulag : historien om de sovjetiske straffelejre af Anne Applebaum2003
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home af George Howe Colt2003
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin af John D’Emilio2003
Djævelen i den hvide by af Erik Larson2003
Master of the Senate af Robert A. Caro2002
When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution af Devra Davis2002
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science af Atul Gawande2002
The Last American Man af Elizabeth Gilbert2002
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins af Steve Olson2002
Helvedes malstrøm : en bog om depressionens anatomi af Andrew Solomon2001
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood af Marie Arana2001
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care af Nina Bernstein2001
My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark af David James Duncan2001
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland af Jan T. Gross2001
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex af Nathaniel Philbrick2000
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life—1500 to the Present af Jacques Barzun2000
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach af Alice Kaplan2000
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century af David Levering Lewis2000
Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon af Patrick Tierney2000
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II af John W. Dower1999
Woman: An Intimate Geography af Natalie Angier1999
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War af Mark Bowden1999
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation af John Phillip Santos1999
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette af Judith Thurman1999
Slaves in the Family af Edward Ball1998
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human af Harold Bloom1998
There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok af Yaffa Eliach1998
A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage af Beth Kephart1998
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery af Henry Mayer1998
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson af Joseph J. Ellis1997
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara af David I. Kertzer1997
My Brother af Jamaica Kincaid1997
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade af Thomas Lynch1997
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography af Sam Tanenhaus1997
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us af James Carroll1996
The Temple Bombing af Melissa Fay Greene1996
The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War af Paul Hendrickson1996
The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller af Cary Reich1996
Fruitful: A Real Mother af Anne Roiphe1996
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism af Tina Rosenberg1995
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia af Dennis Covington1995
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life af Daniel C. Dennett1995
A Civil Action af Jonathan Harr1995
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De La Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South af Maryanne Vollers1995
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter af Sherwin B. Nuland1994
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America af John Putnam Demos1994
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas af Jane Mayer1994
Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society af John Edgar Wideman1994
I Faraos hær af Tobias Wolff1994
United States: Essays 1952-1992 af Gore Vidal1993
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture af William R. Leach1993
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race af David Levering Lewis1993
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America af Richard Slotkin1993
Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground af Peter Svenson1993
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story af Paul Monette1992
The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction af Edward L. Ayers1992
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman af James Gleick1992
Truman af David McCullough1992
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America af Garry Wills1992
Freedom in the Making of Western Culture af Orlando Patterson1991
Why Americans Hate Politics af E. J. Dionne, Jr.1991
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction af Melissa Fay Greene1991
The Jameses: A Family Narrative af R. W. B. Lewis1991
Anne Sexton: A Biography af Diane Middlebrook1991
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance af Ron Chernow1990
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School af Samuel G. Freedman1990
Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician af Roger Morris1990
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga af Steven Naifeh1990
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 af T. H. Watkins1990
From Beirut to Jerusalem af Thomas L. Friedman1989
Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years af McGeorge Bundy1989
Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century Ends af William Pfaff1989
Mother Country af Marilynne Robinson1989
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam af Neil Sheehan1988
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 af Eric Foner1988
The Rise of Modern Paganism af Peter Gay1988
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom af Brenda Maddox1988
Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder af Jack McLaughlin1988
The Making of the Atomic Bomb af Richard Rhodes1987
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe af David Herbert Donald1987
Kaos : en ny videnskabs tilbliven af James Gleick1987
Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics af Claudia Koonz1987
New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars af Robert A. M. Stern1987
Arctic Dreams af Barry Lopez1986
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War af John W. Dower1986
The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune af Richard Kluger1986
The Young Hemingway af Michael S. Reynolds1986
Tombee: Portrait of a cotton planter af Theodore Rosengarten1986
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families af J. Anthony Lukas1985
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity af Daniel J. Kevles1985
... The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age af Walter A. McDougall1985
Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 af Robert V. Remini1984
Becoming William James af Howard M. Feinstein1984
Thomas More: A Biography af Richard Marius1984
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka af Ernst Pawel1984
One Writer's Beginnings af Eudora Welty1984
Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870-81 af Leon Edel1963
Henry James: The Middle Years, 1881-95 af Leon Edel1963
Det tavse forår af Rachel Carson1963
O'Neill af Arthur Gelb1963
Contemporaries af Alfred Kazin1963
The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait af Frederic Morton1963
Chekhov: A Biography af Ernest Joseph Simmons1963
John Adams af Page Smith1963
Kanonerne i august 1914 : beretningen om krigsudbruddet og de første kæmpeslag der blev afgørende for verdenshistoriens forløb af Barbara W. Tuchman1963
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War af Edmund Wilson1963
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects af Lewis Mumford1962
African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man af Robert Ardrey1962
Ingen kender mit navn af James Baldwin1962
The will of Zeus; a history of Greece from the origins of Hellenic culture to the death of Alexander af Stringfellow Barr1962
The architecture of America; a social and cultural history af John E. Burchard1962
Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias af Rene Dubos1962
The Death and Life of Great American Cities af Jane Jacobs1962
Children of Sanchez af Oscar Lewis1962
A matter of life and death af Virgilia Peterson1962
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life af Mark Schorer1962
Lafcadio Hearn af Elizabeth Stevenson1962
The Making of the President 1960 af Theodore H. White1962
John Bunyan af Ola Elizabeth Winslow1962
Asimov's New Guide to Science af Isaac Asimov1961
The Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright (The Norton Library) af Peter Blake1961
Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813 af George Dangerfield1961
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War af David Herbert Donald1961
My wilderness: the Pacific West af William O. Douglas1961
The Firmament of Time af Loren Eiseley1961
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces af Felix Frankfurter1961
Goodbye to a River: A Narrative af John Graves1961
The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936 af Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.1961
Name And Address: An Autobiography af Thomas Stanley Matthews1961
Thomas Wolfe, a biography af Elizabeth Nowell1961
James Joyce af Richard Ellmann1960
The House of Intellect (Perennial Classics) af Jacques Barzun1960
Power without property; a new development in American political economy af Adolf Augustus Berle1960
The curse of the misbegotten: A tale of the house of O'Neill af Croswell Bowen1960
The fourth branch of Government af Douglass Cater1960
Two gentle men : the lives of George Herbert and Robert Herrick af Marchette Chute1960
Asa Gray, 1810-1888 af A. Hunter Dupree1960
A Life in the Theatre af Tyrone Guthrie1960
Life in the crystal palace af Alan Harrington1960
Act One: An Autobiography af Moss Hart1960
Edison: A Biography af Matthew Josephson1960
The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935 af Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.1960
Human Nature and the Human Condition af Joseph Wood Krutch1960
Endurance af Alfred Lansing1960
Alexander Hamilton: portrait in paradox af John Chester Miller1960
John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography af Samuel Eliot Morison1960
The War for the Union, Vol. 1: The Improvised War, 1861-1862 af Allan Nevins1960
The Marauders af Charlton Ogburn1960
Pickett's Charge af George Stewart1960
The Harmless People af Elizabeth Marshall Thomas1960
The Years with Ross af James Thurber1960
Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël af J. Christopher Herold1959
Menneskets vilkår af Hannah Arendt1959
Private af Lester Atwell1959
The Americans: The Colonial Experience af Daniel Boorstin1959
The Wall Between af Anne Braden1959
Naked to Mine Enemies: The Life of Cardinal Wolsey af Charles W. Ferguson1959
The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville af Shelby Foote1959
Det rige samfund af John Kenneth Galbraith1959
Only in America af Harry Golden1959
Russia, the atom and the West af George F. Kennan1959
Marlborough's Duchess af Louis Kronenberger1959
Journey to the beginning af Edgar Snow1959
The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke af Catherine Drinker Bowen1958
Mr. Baruch: The Man, the Myth, the Eighty Years af Margaret L. Coit1958
The Reformation af Will Durant1958
Alexander Hamilton in the American tradition af Louis M. Hacker1958
Poets in a Landscape af Gilbert Highet1958
Nuclear weapons and foreign policy af Henry Kissinger1958
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood af Mary McCarthy1958
The Hidden Persuaders af Vance Packard1958
The Twentieth Maine: A Classic Story of Joshua Chamberlain and His Volunteer Regiment af John J. Pullen1958
As France Goes af David Schoenbrun1958
Bridge to the Sun af Gwen Terasaki1958
Citadel: The Story of the U.S. Senate af William Smith White1958
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol 1 af George F. Kennan1957
John Quincy Adams and the Union af Samuel Flagg Bemis1957
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940 af James MacGregor Burns1957
This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War af Bruce Catton1957
Guides to Straight Thinking, With 13 Common Fallacies. af Stuart Chase1957
Atomic quest, a personal narrative af Arthur Holly Compton1957
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph af Frank Freidel1957
The Crucial Decade–and After af Eric F. Goldman1957
The Nun's Story af Kathryn Hulme1957
Richard the Third af Paul Murray Kendall1957
Mænd af mod af John F. Kennedy1957
Revolt of the moderates af Samuel Lubell1957
The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene af Perry Miller1957
The Transformations of Man af Lewis Mumford1957
Autumn Across America af Edwin Way Teale1957
Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South af Robert Penn Warren1957
The Organization Man af William H. Whyte1957
American in Italy af Herbert Kubly1956
The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman af Gay Wilson Allen1956
The Edge of the Sea af Rachel Carson1956
The land they fought for; the story of the South as the Confederacy, 1832-1865 af Clifford Dowdey1956
Inside Africa af John Gunther1956
The Age of Reform af Richard Hofstadter1956
Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties af Murray Kempton1956
Gaven fra havet af Anne Morrow Lindbergh1956
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 af Milton Mayer1956
Notre-Dame of Paris af Allan Temko1956
Memoirs, Volume 1: Year of Decisions af Harry S. Truman1956
The scrolls from the Dead Sea af Edmund Wilson1956
The measure of man: on freedom, human values, survival, and the modern temper af Joseph Wood Krutch1955
Scenes and portraits : memories of childhood and youth af Van Wyck Brooks1955
The Challenge of Man's Future: An Inquiry Concerning the Condition of Man During the Years That Lie Ahead af Harrison Brown1955
But We Were Born Free: af Elmer Holmes Davis1955
The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill af Hermann Hagedorn1955
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History. Vol. 1, Indians and Spain. Vol. 2, Mexico and the United States. 2 vols. in one af Paul Horgan1955
Bent's Fort af David Lavender1955
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years {set of three volumes} af Carl Sandburg1955
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West af Wallace Stegner1955
The Second Tree from the Corner af E. B. White1955
A Stillness at Appomattox af Bruce Catton1954
The Course of Empire af Bernard DeVoto1953
Ushant: An Essay af Conrad Aiken1953
The Big Change: America Transforms Itself 1900-1950 af Frederick Lewis Allen1953
The confident years: 1885-1915 af Van Wyck Brooks1953
Witness af Whittaker Chambers1953
Rome and a Villa af Eleanor Clark1953
Beyond the high Himalayas af William O. Douglas1953
George Washington Volume 5 Victory with the Help of France af Douglas Southall Freeman1953
Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform af Eric F. Goldman1953
The spirit of liberty; papers and addresses af Learned Hand1953
William Faulkner: A Critical Study (4th Edition) af Irving Howe1953
The Uses of the Past: Profiles of Former Societies af Herbert J. Muller1953
Lincoln the President: Midstream af J. G. Randall1953
Abraham Lincoln af Benjamin P. Thomas1953
Sam Clemens of Hannibal af Dixon Wecter1953
Grant Rises in the West: The First Year, 1861-1862 af Kenneth P. Williams1953
The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties af Edmund Wilson1953
Havet omkring os af Rachel Carson1952
The Origins of Totalitarianism af Hannah Arendt1952
Life in America af Marshall B. Davidson1952
Henry James af F. W. Dupee1952
Birth of a World: Bolivar in Terms of His People af Waldo David Frank1952
Washington af Douglas Southall Freeman1952
The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths af Erich Fromm1952
The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People af Oscar Handlin1952
A Walker in the City af Alfred Kazin1952
Jefferson and the Rights of Man af Dumas Malone1952
De nye middelklasser : Dansk udgave af White collar - en sociologisk analyse af middelstanden i det tyvende århundredes USA af C. Wright Mills1952
The Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald af Arthur Mizener1952
The conduct of life af Lewis Mumford1952
Charles Evans Hughes af Merlo J. Pusey1952
Thomas Jefferson : A Biography af Nat Schachner1952
The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (New Directions Paperbook) af William Carlos Williams1952
Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction af C. Vann Woodward1952
Herman Melville af Newton Arvin1951
The life of Ralph Waldo Emerson af Ralph L. Rusk1950
The Universe and Dr. Einstein af Lincoln Barnett1950
The Mature Mind af H. A. Overstreet1950
This I Remember af Eleanor Roosevelt1950
Killers of the Dream af Lillian Smith1950
Lincoln finds a general; a military study of the Civil War af Kenneth P. Williams1950

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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History af Ned Blackhawk2023
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice af Cristina Rivera-Garza2023
Ordinary Notes af Christina Sharpe2023
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir af Raja Shehadeh2023
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World af John Vaillant2023
King: A Life af Jonathan Eig2023
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial af Viet Thanh Nguyen2023
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever af Prudence Peiffer2023
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era af Donovan X. Ramsey2023
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction af Kidada E. Williams2023
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation af Imani Perry2022
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness af Meghan O'Rourke2022
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus af David Quammen2022
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir af Ingrid Rojas Contreras2022
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice af Robert Samuels2022
Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays af Anna Badkhen2022
Ted Kennedy: A Life af John A. Farrell2022
Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time af Natalie Hodges2022
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands af Kelly Lytle Hernandez2022
Lost & Found: A Memoir af Kathryn Schulz2022
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake af Tiya Miles2021
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance af Hanif Abdurraqib2021
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains af Lucas Bessire2021
Tastes Like War: A Memoir af Grace M. Cho2021
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America af Nicole Eustace2021
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice af Scott Ellsworth2021
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together af Heather McGhee2021
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War af Louis Menand2021
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America af Clint Smith2021
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship af Deborah Willis2021
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X af Les Payne2020
The Undocumented Americans af Karla Cornejo Villavicencio2020
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory af Claudio Saunt2020
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir af Jenn Shapland2020
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays) af Jerald Walker2020
Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto af Michelle Bowdler2020
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future af Jill Lepore2020
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl af Jonathan C. Slaght2020
Afropessimism af Frank B. III Wilderson2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents af Isabel Wilkerson2020
The Yellow House: A Memoir af Sarah M. Broom2019
Thick: And Other Essays af Tressie McMillan Cottom2019
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance af Carolyn Forché2019
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present af David Treuer2019
Solitary af Albert Woodfox2019
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest af Hanif Abdurraqib2019
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America af Greg Grandin2019
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland af Patrick Radden Keefe2019
Burn the Place: A Memoir af Iliana Regan2019
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics) af Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor2019
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke af Jeffrey C. Stewart2018
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation af Colin G. Calloway2018
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic af Victoria Johnson2018
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth af Sarah Smarsh2018
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights af Adam Winkler2018
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy af Carol Anderson2018
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan af Steve Coll2018
Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War af Marwan Hisham2018
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life af David Quammen2018
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) af Rebecca Solnit2018
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia af Masha Gessen2017
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge af Erica Armstrong Dunbar2017
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America af Frances FitzGerald2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI af David Grann2017
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America af Nancy Maclean2017
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America af James Forman Jr.2017
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need af Naomi Klein2017
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America af Richard Rothstein2017
The Blood of Emmett Till af Timothy B. Tyson2017
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News af Kevin Young2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America af Ibram X. Kendi2016
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right af Arlie Russell Hochschild2016
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War af Viet Thanh Nguyen2016
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America af Andrés Reséndez2016
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy af Heather Ann Thompson2016
America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History af Andrew Bacevich2016
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice af Patricia Bell-Scott2016
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck af Adam Cohen2016
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy af Cathy O'Neil2016
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition af Manisha Sinha2016
Between the World and Me af Ta-Nehisi Coates2015
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs af Sally Mann2015
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness af Sy Montgomery2015
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran af Carla Power2015
Ordinary Light: A Memoir af Tracy K. Smith2015
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History af Cynthia Barnett2015
Mourning Lincoln af Martha Hodes2015
Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii af Susanna Moore2015
Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays af Michael Paterniti2015
Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir af Michael White2015
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China af Evan Osnos2014
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir af Roz Chast2014
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes af Anand Gopal2014
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh af John Lahr2014
The Meaning of Human Existence af Edward O. Wilson2014
The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic af John Demos2014
The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942 af Nigel Hamilton2014
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution af Walter Isaacson2014
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 af Ronald C. Rosbottom2014
Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic af Matthew Stewart2014
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America af George Packer2013
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin af Jill Lepore2013
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields af Wendy Lower2013
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 af Alan Taylor2013
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief af Lawrence Wright2013
Finding Florida af T. D. Allman2013
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami af Gretel Ehrlich2013
The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA af Scott C. Johnson2013
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 af James Oakes2013
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington af Terry Teachout2013
Bag det evigt smukke af Katherine Boo2012
Jerntæppet : Østeuropas fald 1944-1956 af Anne Applebaum2012
The Passage of Power af Robert A. Caro2012
The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir af Domingo Martinez2012
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East af Anthony Shadid2012
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern af Stephen Greenblatt2011
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism af Deborah Baker2011
Love and Capital af Mary Gabriel2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention af Manning Marable2011
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout af Lauren Redniss2011
Just kids af Patti Smith2010
I ly af mørket : nordkoreanske skæbner af Barbara Demick2010
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq af John W. Dower2010
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade af Justin Spring2010
Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War af Megan Stack2010
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt af T. J. Stiles2009
Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook af David M. Carroll2009
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species af Dr. Sean B. Carroll2009
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City af Greg Grandin2009
The Poison King : The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy af Adrienne Mayor2009
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family af Annette Gordon-Reed2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) af Drew Gilpin Faust2008
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals af Jane Mayer2008
Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives af Jim Sheeler2008
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order af Joan Wickersham2008
CIA - fra den kolde krig til krigen mod terror af Tim Weiner2007
Brother, I'm Dying af Edwidge Danticat2007
Gud er ikke stor: Hvordan religion forpester alt af Christopher Hitchens2007
Ralph Ellison: A Biography af Arnold Rampersad2007
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl af Timothy Egan2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 af Taylor Branch2006
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone af Rajiv Chandrasekaran2006
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China af Peter Hessler2006
Al-Qaida - vejen til 11. september af Lawrence Wright2006
Et år med magisk tænkning af Joan Didion2005
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius af Leo Damrosch2005
102 minutter : den utrolige historie om kampen for at overleve inde i tvillingetårnene af Jim Dwyer2005
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves af Adam Hochschild2005
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age af Kevin Boyle2004
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) af National Commission on Terrorist Attacks2004
Washington's Crossing af David Hackett Fischer2004
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett af Jennifer Gonnerman2004
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare af Stephen Greenblatt2004
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy af Carlos Eire2003
Gulag : historien om de sovjetiske straffelejre af Anne Applebaum2003
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home af George Howe Colt2003
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin af John D’Emilio2003
Djævelen i den hvide by af Erik Larson2003
Master of the Senate af Robert A. Caro2002
When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution af Devra Davis2002
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science af Atul Gawande2002
The Last American Man af Elizabeth Gilbert2002
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins af Steve Olson2002
Helvedes malstrøm : en bog om depressionens anatomi af Andrew Solomon2001
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood af Marie Arana2001
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care af Nina Bernstein2001
My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark af David James Duncan2001
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland af Jan T. Gross2001
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex af Nathaniel Philbrick2000
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life—1500 to the Present af Jacques Barzun2000
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach af Alice Kaplan2000
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century af David Levering Lewis2000
Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon af Patrick Tierney2000
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II af John W. Dower1999
Woman: An Intimate Geography af Natalie Angier1999
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War af Mark Bowden1999
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation af John Phillip Santos1999
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette af Judith Thurman1999
Slaves in the Family af Edward Ball1998
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human af Harold Bloom1998
There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok af Yaffa Eliach1998
A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage af Beth Kephart1998
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery af Henry Mayer1998
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson af Joseph J. Ellis1997
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara af David I. Kertzer1997
My Brother af Jamaica Kincaid1997
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade af Thomas Lynch1997
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography af Sam Tanenhaus1997
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us af James Carroll1996
The Temple Bombing af Melissa Fay Greene1996
The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War af Paul Hendrickson1996
The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller af Cary Reich1996
Fruitful: A Real Mother af Anne Roiphe1996
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism af Tina Rosenberg1995
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia af Dennis Covington1995
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life af Daniel C. Dennett1995
A Civil Action af Jonathan Harr1995
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De La Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South af Maryanne Vollers1995
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter af Sherwin B. Nuland1994
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America af John Putnam Demos1994
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas af Jane Mayer1994
Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society af John Edgar Wideman1994
I Faraos hær af Tobias Wolff1994
United States: Essays 1952-1992 af Gore Vidal1993
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture af William R. Leach1993
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race af David Levering Lewis1993
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America af Richard Slotkin1993
Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground af Peter Svenson1993
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story af Paul Monette1992
The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction af Edward L. Ayers1992
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman af James Gleick1992
Truman af David McCullough1992
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America af Garry Wills1992
Freedom in the Making of Western Culture af Orlando Patterson1991
Why Americans Hate Politics af E. J. Dionne, Jr.1991
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction af Melissa Fay Greene1991
The Jameses: A Family Narrative af R. W. B. Lewis1991
Anne Sexton: A Biography af Diane Middlebrook1991
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance af Ron Chernow1990
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School af Samuel G. Freedman1990
Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician af Roger Morris1990
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga af Steven Naifeh1990
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 af T. H. Watkins1990
From Beirut to Jerusalem af Thomas L. Friedman1989
Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years af McGeorge Bundy1989
Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century Ends af William Pfaff1989
Mother Country af Marilynne Robinson1989
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam af Neil Sheehan1988
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 af Eric Foner1988
The Rise of Modern Paganism af Peter Gay1988
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom af Brenda Maddox1988
Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder af Jack McLaughlin1988
The Making of the Atomic Bomb af Richard Rhodes1987
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe af David Herbert Donald1987
Kaos : en ny videnskabs tilbliven af James Gleick1987
Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics af Claudia Koonz1987
New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars af Robert A. M. Stern1987
Arctic Dreams af Barry Lopez1986
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War af John W. Dower1986
The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune af Richard Kluger1986
The Young Hemingway af Michael S. Reynolds1986
Tombee: Portrait of a cotton planter af Theodore Rosengarten1986
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families af J. Anthony Lukas1985
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity af Daniel J. Kevles1985
... The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age af Walter A. McDougall1985
Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 af Robert V. Remini1984
Becoming William James af Howard M. Feinstein1984
Thomas More: A Biography af Richard Marius1984
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka af Ernst Pawel1984
One Writer's Beginnings af Eudora Welty1984
Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870-81 af Leon Edel1963
Henry James: The Middle Years, 1881-95 af Leon Edel1963
Det tavse forår af Rachel Carson1963
O'Neill af Arthur Gelb1963
Contemporaries af Alfred Kazin1963
The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait af Frederic Morton1963
Chekhov: A Biography af Ernest Joseph Simmons1963
John Adams af Page Smith1963
Kanonerne i august 1914 : beretningen om krigsudbruddet og de første kæmpeslag der blev afgørende for verdenshistoriens forløb af Barbara W. Tuchman1963
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War af Edmund Wilson1963
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects af Lewis Mumford1962
African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man af Robert Ardrey1962
Ingen kender mit navn af James Baldwin1962
The will of Zeus; a history of Greece from the origins of Hellenic culture to the death of Alexander af Stringfellow Barr1962
The architecture of America; a social and cultural history af John E. Burchard1962
Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias af Rene Dubos1962
The Death and Life of Great American Cities af Jane Jacobs1962
Children of Sanchez af Oscar Lewis1962
A matter of life and death af Virgilia Peterson1962
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life af Mark Schorer1962
Lafcadio Hearn af Elizabeth Stevenson1962
The Making of the President 1960 af Theodore H. White1962
John Bunyan af Ola Elizabeth Winslow1962
Asimov's New Guide to Science af Isaac Asimov1961
The Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright (The Norton Library) af Peter Blake1961
Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813 af George Dangerfield1961
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War af David Herbert Donald1961
My wilderness: the Pacific West af William O. Douglas1961
The Firmament of Time af Loren Eiseley1961
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces af Felix Frankfurter1961
Goodbye to a River: A Narrative af John Graves1961
The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936 af Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.1961
Name And Address: An Autobiography af Thomas Stanley Matthews1961
Thomas Wolfe, a biography af Elizabeth Nowell1961
James Joyce af Richard Ellmann1960
The House of Intellect (Perennial Classics) af Jacques Barzun1960
Power without property; a new development in American political economy af Adolf Augustus Berle1960
The curse of the misbegotten: A tale of the house of O'Neill af Croswell Bowen1960
The fourth branch of Government af Douglass Cater1960
Two gentle men : the lives of George Herbert and Robert Herrick af Marchette Chute1960
Asa Gray, 1810-1888 af A. Hunter Dupree1960
A Life in the Theatre af Tyrone Guthrie1960
Life in the crystal palace af Alan Harrington1960
Act One: An Autobiography af Moss Hart1960
Edison: A Biography af Matthew Josephson1960
The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935 af Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.1960
Human Nature and the Human Condition af Joseph Wood Krutch1960
Endurance af Alfred Lansing1960
Alexander Hamilton: portrait in paradox af John Chester Miller1960
John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography af Samuel Eliot Morison1960
The War for the Union, Vol. 1: The Improvised War, 1861-1862 af Allan Nevins1960
The Marauders af Charlton Ogburn1960
Pickett's Charge af George Stewart1960
The Harmless People af Elizabeth Marshall Thomas1960
The Years with Ross af James Thurber1960
Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël af J. Christopher Herold1959
Menneskets vilkår af Hannah Arendt1959
Private af Lester Atwell1959
The Americans: The Colonial Experience af Daniel Boorstin1959
The Wall Between af Anne Braden1959
Naked to Mine Enemies: The Life of Cardinal Wolsey af Charles W. Ferguson1959
The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville af Shelby Foote1959
Det rige samfund af John Kenneth Galbraith1959
Only in America af Harry Golden1959
Russia, the atom and the West af George F. Kennan1959
Marlborough's Duchess af Louis Kronenberger1959
Journey to the beginning af Edgar Snow1959
The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke af Catherine Drinker Bowen1958
Mr. Baruch: The Man, the Myth, the Eighty Years af Margaret L. Coit1958
The Reformation af Will Durant1958
Alexander Hamilton in the American tradition af Louis M. Hacker1958
Poets in a Landscape af Gilbert Highet1958
Nuclear weapons and foreign policy af Henry Kissinger1958
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood af Mary McCarthy1958
The Hidden Persuaders af Vance Packard1958
The Twentieth Maine: A Classic Story of Joshua Chamberlain and His Volunteer Regiment af John J. Pullen1958
As France Goes af David Schoenbrun1958
Bridge to the Sun af Gwen Terasaki1958
Citadel: The Story of the U.S. Senate af William Smith White1958
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol 1 af George F. Kennan1957
John Quincy Adams and the Union af Samuel Flagg Bemis1957
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940 af James MacGregor Burns1957
This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War af Bruce Catton1957
Guides to Straight Thinking, With 13 Common Fallacies. af Stuart Chase1957
Atomic quest, a personal narrative af Arthur Holly Compton1957
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph af Frank Freidel1957
The Crucial Decade–and After af Eric F. Goldman1957
The Nun's Story af Kathryn Hulme1957
Mænd af mod af John F. Kennedy1957
Revolt of the moderates af Samuel Lubell1957
The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene af Perry Miller1957
The Transformations of Man af Lewis Mumford1957
Autumn Across America af Edwin Way Teale1957
Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South af Robert Penn Warren1957
The Organization Man af William H. Whyte1957
American in Italy af Herbert Kubly1956
The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman af Gay Wilson Allen1956
The Edge of the Sea af Rachel Carson1956
The land they fought for; the story of the South as the Confederacy, 1832-1865 af Clifford Dowdey1956
Inside Africa af John Gunther1956
The Age of Reform af Richard Hofstadter1956
Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties af Murray Kempton1956
Gaven fra havet af Anne Morrow Lindbergh1956
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 af Milton Mayer1956
Notre-Dame of Paris af Allan Temko1956
Memoirs, Volume 1: Year of Decisions af Harry S. Truman1956
The scrolls from the Dead Sea af Edmund Wilson1956
The measure of man: on freedom, human values, survival, and the modern temper af Joseph Wood Krutch1955
Scenes and portraits : memories of childhood and youth af Van Wyck Brooks1955
The Challenge of Man's Future: An Inquiry Concerning the Condition of Man During the Years That Lie Ahead af Harrison Brown1955
But We Were Born Free: af Elmer Holmes Davis1955
The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill af Hermann Hagedorn1955
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History. Vol. 1, Indians and Spain. Vol. 2, Mexico and the United States. 2 vols. in one af Paul Horgan1955
Bent's Fort af David Lavender1955
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years {set of three volumes} af Carl Sandburg1955
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West af Wallace Stegner1955
The Second Tree from the Corner af E. B. White1955
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The spirit of liberty; papers and addresses af Learned Hand1953
William Faulkner: A Critical Study (4th Edition) af Irving Howe1953
The Uses of the Past: Profiles of Former Societies af Herbert J. Muller1953
Lincoln the President: Midstream af J. G. Randall1953
Abraham Lincoln af Benjamin P. Thomas1953
Sam Clemens of Hannibal af Dixon Wecter1953
Grant Rises in the West: The First Year, 1861-1862 af Kenneth P. Williams1953
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