Background Reading
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FICTION
++ indicates I reviewed this book for The New York Journal of Books
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​About the Sixties or political activism in general:
Kathleen Alcott, America Was Hard to Find
Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1
Russell Banks, Foregone
C.A. Davids, How to Be a Revolutionary
++Joshua Furst, Revolutionaries
Xochitl Gonzalez, Olga Dies Dreaming
Nathan Hill, The Nix
++David Hirshberg, Jacobo's Rainbow
Hermione Hoby, Virtue
++Alice Mattison, Conscience
++Alice McDermott, Absolution
++Jay Neugeboren, After Camus
++Jeff Schnader, The Serpent Papers
Jessica Shattuck, Last House
Teddy Wayne, The Great Man Theory
++Susan Rebecca White, We Are All Good People Here
... see also my recommended list on Shepherd.com
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About immigration:
Michelle de Kretser, Scary Monsters
++Gaelle Josse, The Last Days of Ellis Island
Marie Myung-Ok Lee, The Evening Hero
++Eman Quotah, Bride of the Sea
About kidnapping:
Rea Frey, Not Her Daughter
Helen Klein Ross, What Was Mine
Jacinda Townsend, Mother Country
NONFICTION
Edward Berenson, The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town
Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Daniel S. Chard, Nixon's War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism
Katharine Graham, Personal History
Penny Lewis, Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory
Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Scott Turow, One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
David von Drehle, Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
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