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* * * * * Dramatic,
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American Pastoral

by Philip Roth

Published: 1998-02-03

Paperback: 423 pages

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Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeHere is Philip Roth's masterpiece—an elegy for the American century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry...

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American Pie: A Novel

by Michael Lee West

Published: 1997-10-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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* * * Interesting,
Fun,
Adventurous

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American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads

by Pascale Le Draoulec

Published: 2003-04-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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Crossing class and color lines, and spanning the nation (Montana has its huckleberry, Pennsylvania its shoofly, and Mississippi its sweet potato), pie -- real, homemade pie -- has meaning for all of us. But in today's treadmill, take-out world -- our fast-food nation -- does pie still have...

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* * * * Interesting,
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The American Plague

by Molly Caldwell Crosby

Published: 2007-09-04

Paperback: 384 pages

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In this national-bestselling account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' horrors,"*-and moving on to today's strain of the killer virus. Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed go...

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* * * * * Insightful,
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The American Poet Who Went Home Again

by Aberjhani

Published: 2008-05-07

Paperback: 312 pages

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The American Poet Who Went Home Again is a book of creative nonfiction that blends memoir, literary journalism, history, and biography to tell the story of one writer's rediscovery of his family, his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, and himself. It is composed of four sections containing collectively some...

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American Presidents: Martin Van Buren

by Ted Widmer, Arthur M. Schlesinger

Published: 2005-01-05

Hardcover: 189 pages

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The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracy The first "professional politician" to become president, the slick and dandyish Martin Van Buren was to all appearances the opposite of his predecessor, the rugged general and Democratic champion Andrew...

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American Primitive

by Mary Oliver

Published: 1983-04-30

Paperback: 88 pages

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryHer most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both within our bodies and outside."American Primitive enchants me with the purity of its lyric v...

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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Published: 2005-04-05

Hardcover: 721 pages

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American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, ?father of the atomic bomb,? the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war. Immediately after Hiroshima, he became the most famous...

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American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

Published: 1991-03-01

Paperback: 399 pages

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Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol).In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis im...

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The American Revolution: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

by Gordon S. Wood

Published: 2003-08-19

Paperback: 224 pages

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“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years.”-Joseph J. Ellis...

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