Background Reading
FICTION
Click on the links to see my reviews in The New York Journal of Books
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
Teddy Wayne, The Great Man Theory
Susan Rebecca White, We Are All Good People Here
... see also my recommended list on Shepherd.com
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