Douglas Brinkley

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1.		Rise to Globalism from Longman Price: $8.00 Customer Review: This is a good survey of American foreign policy since 1938. It can be dry at times since it is dealing with policy but I highly recommend it. Stephen E. Ambrose co-wrote it so you know it must be pretty good. I recommend this because many Americans now adays don't really know much about America's... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast from William Morrow Price: $7.99 Customer Review: I just reread this book after two years. My first time around I was skeptical how insightful a book could be so soon after Katrina. On my second go round with The Great Deluge, I was impressed by how much of the story Brinkley got right. * The New Orleans Police Department was as dirty, corrupt... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960: On the Road / The Dharma Bums / The Subterraneans / Tristessa / Lonesome Traveler / Journal Selections (Library of America) from Library of America Price: $24.22 Customer Review: Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was the inspiration for much of the early Beat movement and gained literary respectability for Beat literature. The other novels in this collection, all part of Kerouac's semi-autobiographical tales of wandering in search of self, are more than just good reads, but shed... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		Vanishing America: The End of Main Street Diners, Drive-Ins, Donut Shops, and Other Everyday Monuments from Rizzoli Price: $26.37 Customer Review: This book is beautiful, but not in the traditional sense. It shows well-loved and decaying mainstays of small towns all across the U.S. Not so much the "Route 66" kitchy America, but the regular, everyday sights and signs that we seldom focus on but are there, nonetheless. The photographer took... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 from Ballantine Books Price: $12.89 Customer Review: I have every book Hunter S Thompson ever wrote and if asked which one was my favorite I would have to say ("Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" favorite for fiction and I use the word fiction loosely) "The Proud Highway" because it's the most private and most intimate correspondence of one of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		100 Days in Photographs: Pivotal Events That Changed the World from National Geographic Price: $23.10 Customer Review: A very good visual history book about different climatic events over the last 100 years.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $13.50 Customer Review: Excellent corporate history of Ford Motor Company, and unavoidably, a biography of Henry Ford, who for the first 45 years of the company was Ford Motor Company. The chaotic early years of the automotive industry are captured in the two failed car companies Ford left behind, including the Henry... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		Gerald R. Ford from Times Books Price: $13.60 Customer Review: Well known historian Douglas Brinkley has written this brief biography, as a part of the American Presidents series of works. In the series editor's Introduction, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. notes that (Page xv): "The president is the central player in the American political order." Gerald Ford was an... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism from William Morrow Price: $16.47 Customer Review: A very well written and informative biography of the founder of the Knights of Columbus. I would recommend it highly to members of the K of C.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		Rosa Parks: A Life from Penguin Books Price: $10.40 Customer Review: An inspirational story about the life of Rosa Parks, a mulatto woman who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery AL on Dec 1, 1955. Her courageous act became known as the beginning of the Civil Rights movement in the United States. Her quiet and non violent action sparked the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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