History, Memoir and Biography
by
John Q McDonald
--- 11 July 2024
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Alda, Alan:
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed
Ambrose, Stephen E.:
Undaunted Courage
Atlas, James:
My Life in the Middle Ages
Auchincloss, Louis:
Edith Wharton
Ayers, Bill:
Fugitive Days
Baldick, Robert (ed.):
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand
Barnes, Julian:
Nothing to be Frightened Of
Baron, David:
American Eclipse
Begley, Adam:
The Great Nadar
Begley, Adam:
Updike
Berman, Tosh:
Tosh
Bilger, Burkhard:
Fatherland
Braude, Mark:
Kiki Man Ray
Brautigan, Ianthe:
You Can't Catch Death
Brechin, Gray:
Imperial San Francisco
Brook, James, Chris Carlsson, Nancy J. Peters (eds.):
Reclaiming San Francisco
Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace:
Gotham
Butor, Michel:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape
Cahill, Thomas:
Desire of the Everlasting Hills
Cahill, Thomas:
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Cain, Chelsea (ed.):
Wild Child
Carlin, George, with Tony Hendra:
Last Words
Caro, Robert A.:
The Power Broker
Carter, Jimmy:
Living Faith
Chaikin, Andrew:
A Man on the Moon
Chase, Marilyn:
The Barbary Plague
Cherry-Garrard, Apsley:
The Worst Journey in the World
Chevalier, Tracy:
The Lady and the Unicorn
Cleese, John:
So, Anyway...
Cole, K. C.:
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens
Coleman, Ray:
Lennon
Cox, Tom:
Close Encounters of the Furred Kind
Coyote, Peter:
Sleeping Where I Fall
Crane, George:
Beyond the House of the False Lama
Crosby, Caresse:
The Passionate Years
Curl, John:
Memories of Drop City
Darlington, Sandy:
Buzz River Letters
Davidson, Keay:
Carl Sagan: A Life
Davies, Marion:
The Times We Had
Daws, Gavan:
Shoal of Time
Delano, Sterling F.:
Brook Farm
Diamond, Stephen:
What the Trees Said
Didion, Joan:
Where I was From
Donald, David H.:
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
Dubus, Andre, III:
Townie
Durrell, Gerald:
Garden of the Gods
Eggers, Dave:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Ellis, Joseph J.:
Founding Brothers
Fleming, Peter:
Bayonets to Lhasa
Flint, Anthony:
Modern Man
Florence, Ronald:
The Perfect Machine
French, Patrick:
Younghusband
Gale, Patrick:
Armistead Maupin
Gibson, Ian:
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí
Goldberger, Paul:
Building Art
Gornick, Vivian:
The Odd Woman and the City
Grass, Günter:
My Century
Grundstein, Margaret:
Naked in the Woods
Hambright, Harlan:
The Idiat and the Odd-yssey
Hamill, Pete:
Downtown
Harington, Donald:
The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks
Harington, Donald:
Let Us Build Us a City
Hayward, Clane:
The Hypocrisy of Disco
Hemingway, Ernest:
A Moveable Feast
Hickam, Homer H., Jr.:
Rocket Boys
Hodgman, George:
Bettyville
Horne, Alistair:
Seven Ages of Paris
Howarth, David:
1066: The Year of the Conquest
Huxtable, Ada Louise:
Frank Lloyd Wright
Izzard, Eddie:
Believe Me
Jacobs, Ron:
The Way the Wind Blew
Jennings, Chris:
Paradise Now
Johnson, Joyce:
Minor Characters
Jordan, David P.:
Transforming Paris
Junger, Sebastian:
The Perfect Storm
Judt, Tony:
The Memory Chalet
Kazin, Alfred:
A Walker in the City
Kennedy, Pagan:
Platforms
Kershaw, Alex:
Jack London: A Life
King, Ross:
Brunelleschi's Dome
Kingsolver, Barbara:
Holding the Line
Koppel, Lily:
The Astronaut Wives Club
Krakauer, Jon:
Into the Wild
Lang, Michael H.:
Designing Utopia
Lessard, Suzannah:
The Architect of Desire
Lesser, Wendy:
You Say to Brick
Levin, Gail:
Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography
Livio, Mario:
Brilliant Blunders
Lord, M. G.:
Astro Turf
Lord, Walter:
A Night to Remember
Macdonald, Helen:
H is for Hawk
MacDonald, Michael Patrick:
All Souls
Markham, Beryl:
West with the Night
Marx, Groucho:
Groucho and Me
Mason, Nick:
Inside Out
Matthews, Mark:
Droppers
Maurois, André:
The World of Marcel Proust
McCullough, David:
The Greater Journey
McCullough, David:
Mornings on Horseback
McNally, Dennis:
A Long Strange Trip
Mercer, Jeremy:
Time was Soft There
Meston, Daja Wangchuk with Clare Ansberry:
Comes the Peace
Muhlstein, Anka:
Balzac's Omelette
Mungo, Raymond:
Famous Long Ago
Naipaul, V. S.:
Reading & Writing
Newman, Janis Cooke:
The Russian Word for Snow
Newman, William A. and Wilfred E. Holton:
Boston's Back Bay
Nguyen, Viet Thanh:
Nothing Ever Dies
Nisker, Wes:
The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom
Oates, Stephen B.:
Let the Trumpet Sound
O'Shea, Stephen:
The Perfect Heresy
Pears, Iain:
An Instance of the Fingerpost
Perry, Michael:
Truck: A Love Story
Poundstone, William:
Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos
Preston, Douglas:
Cities of Gold
Puleo, Stephen:
Dark Tide
Ray, Janisse:
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Reagan, Nancy:
I Love You, Ronnie
Reed, John:
Insurgent Mexico
Reid, Robert L. (ed.):
A Treasury of the Sierra Nevada
Richards, Keith and James Fox:
Life
Rosner, Bernat, and Frederic C. Tubach:
An Uncommon Friendship
Rubin, Jerry:
Growing (Up) at 37
Rybczynski, Witold:
A Clearing in the Distance
Rybczynski, Witold:
One Good Turn
Safran, Joshua:
Free Spirit
Sanders, Edward:
1968: A History in Verse
Sarraute, Nathalie:
Childhood
Satrapi, Marjane:
Persepolis
Schama, Simon:
Landscape and Memory
Schama, Simon:
Rembrandt's Eyes
Schorow, Stephanie:
Inside the Combat Zone
Sciolino, Elaine:
The Only Street in Paris
Shainberg, Lawrence:
Ambivalent Zen
Short, Philip:
Mao: A Life
Sides, Josh:
Erotic City
Slater, Lauren:
Lying
Smith, Patti:
Just Kids
Smith, Patti:
M Train
Sobel, Dava:
Galileo's Daughter
Sobel, Dava:
Longitude
Sperber, A. M., and Eric Lax:
Bogart
Starks, Richard, and Miriam Murcutt:
Lost in Tibet
Stein, Gertrude:
Picasso
Teltscher, Kate:
The High Road to China
Temko, Allan:
Notre-Dame of Paris
Terán, Lisa St. Aubin de:
The Hacienda
Tippins, Sherill:
Inside the Dream Palace
Tyson, Neil deGrasse:
The Sky is not the Limit
Uruburu, Paula:
American Eve
van Hensbergen, Gijs:
Guernica
Vowell, Sarah:
Assassination Vacation
Vowell, Sarah:
Unfamiliar Fishes
Wangchuck, Ashi Dorji Wangmo:
Treasures of the Thunder Dragon
Watt, Ben:
Patient
Weber, Caroline:
Proust's Duchess
Weiss, Michael:
Living Together
Welty, Eudora:
One Writer's Beginnings
White, Edmund:
City Boy
White, Edmund:
Marcel Proust
White, William S.:
The Taft Story
Whitehead, Colson:
The Noble Hustle
Whiteley, Nigel:
Reyner Banham
Wilson, Rebecca:
A House with no Roof
Wizansky, Richard (ed.):
Home Comfort
Wolfe, Tom:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Zhang, Lijia:
"Socialism is Great!"
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