Browsing Books by Books Like The Fifties

Bushwhacked (2003)
Offers a critique of the presidency of George W. Bush, describing how the same flawed policies he us...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008)
Gloriously honest, enchanting and funny, this is a moving tale of post-war friendship, love and book...

Speaking from Among the Bones (2013)
When the tomb of St. Tancred is opened at a village church in Bishop's Lacey, its shocking contents ...

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2007)
From the surreal to the mundane, an anthology of short fiction captures a full range of human experi...

The River of Doubt (2005)
Chronicles the 1914 expedition of Theodore Roosevelt into the unexplored heart of the Amazon basin t...

The Know-It-All (2004)
Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the "Encyclopedia Britannica" from A to Z, shar...

The Truth (2005)
A work of political satire draws on a wide range of resources to expose the mendacity of the Bush ad...

Our Endangered Values (2005)
The former president shares his personal views on moral values as they relate to key issues today, e...

Inside the Third Reich (1970)
The author presents a detailed account of his fifteen-year association with the German Fuhrer...

Three Cups of Tea (2006)
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Means of Ascent (1991)
Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, a...

Kafka Was the Rage (1997)
The late New York Times critic and author offers a memoir and history of post-World War II Greenwich...

Brave New World (2006)
Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of i...

Mr. Mercedes (2014)
Months after a crazed hit-and-run driver kills several attendees at a Midwestern job fair, a depress...

State of Denial (2006)
State of Denial examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the pub...

Seventeen Seventy-six (2005)
Draws on personal correspondence and period diaries to present a history of the American Revolution ...