SUGGESTED READING LIST
FOR THE 2017-18 SEASON!
America’s Conflicts
WWI SYMPOSIUM BOOKS (p. 18)
• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed The World by Margaret MacMillan
• Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History by Jay Winter
• The War That Ended Peace : The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
WWII SYMPOSIUM BOOKS (p. 20)
• Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy, by Eri Hotta
• The Fleet At Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific by James D. Hornfischer
• The Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II by Ben Montgomery
American Presidents & Politics Books (p. 4)
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson In The White House by Jon Meacham
Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks by Michael Gardner
James Madison: A Life Reconsidered by Lynne Cheney
JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity by Larry Kudlow & Brian Domitrovic
Global Issues Books (p. 14)
• T he Beautiful Country and The Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present by John Pomfret
Great Adventures Books (p. 10)
• Celebrating America’s National Parks, Preserves, Monuments & Recreational Areas by Clyde Butcher
• Walking To Listen: 4,00 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time by Andrew Forsthoefel
History & Heritage Books (p. 9)
• History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past by Robert Toplin
• Last Hope Island by Lynne Olson
• The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
Boca Grande Sleuths (p. 17)
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A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Letter Writer by Dan Fesperman
Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sara Caudwell
Literature Forum (p. 31)
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All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig
Loving by Henry Green
Old School by Tobias Wolff
The North Water by Ian McGuire
The Trip To Bounti