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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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