Browsing Books by Books Like Means of Ascent

John Adams (2008)
Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusett...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2008)
Changez, a young Muslim American, is living the American dream, with a Princeton education and high-...

The Guns of August (2004)
A definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of the powderkeg that was Europe during the crucial f...

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (2002)
The third volume in the author's monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson, following The Path to Power...

The Coming of the Third Reich (2005)
A history of Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of democracy in Nazi Germany explains why...

The Power Broker (1975)
Moses is pictured as idealist reformer and political manipulator as his rise to power and eventual d...

The Coldest Winter (2007)
Explores the lesser-known elements of heroism and pathos that marked the Korean War and evaluates po...

The Fifties (1994)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the social, political, economic, and cultural history...

A Distant Mirror (1979)
The prize-winning historian traces the major currents of the fourteenth century, revealing the centu...

Lolita (1997)
A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-da...

Just One Look (2004)
Grace Lawson is living a happy, straightforward life in the suburbs with her husband, Jack, and two ...

President Reagan (1991)
The only writer to cover Reagan throughout his political career offers an account of his presidency,...

The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2010)
While recovering in the hospital, Lisbeth Salander enlists the aid of journalist Mikael Blomkvist to...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited b...