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MEMOIR OF A COMPLICATED girlhood in 1960s Buffalo and beyond has clarity and charm amid all the craziness.
Grade: B PLUS
AFTER THE FALLS: COMING OF AGE IN THE SIXTIES
Penguin Group USA
2010
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, United States
CHARLIE CHAN LIVES in this utterly absorbing look at the real Hawai’i cop who inspired the fictional detective.
Grade: A MINUS
CHARLIE CHAN: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE HONORABLE DETECTIVE AND HIS RENDEZVOUS WITH AMERICAN HISTORY
W. W. Norton & Company
2010
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Biography, Chinese Writers, Chinese-American Writers, Hawai'i, History, Literary History, Non-Fiction, United States, Writers of Color
INSIDE LOOK AT the 1939 World’s Fair contrasts its official optimism with corruption, terrorism, world war.
Grade: SOLID B
TWILIGHT AT THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
Ballantine
2010
Tags: History, New York City, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, United States
AMERICA’S OBSESSION with money explored through quirky biographies of 18th and 19th- century counterfeiters.
Grade: B PLUS
MONEYMAKERS
Penguin
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, History, Non-Fiction, United States
FASCINATING, WITTY LITTLE book about the history of the George Washington mythology and its relation to truth.
Grade: A MINUS
INVENTING GEORGE WASHINGTON
HarperCollins
2011
Tags: A Minus Reviews, History, Non-Fiction, United States
CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER Charles Hamilton Houston, mentor to Thurgood Marshall, profiled in engaging book. B PLUS
ROOT AND BRANCH: CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON, THURGOOD MARSHALL, AND THE STRUGGLE TO END SEGREGATION
Bloomsbury USA
2010
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: African American Writers, B Plus Reviews, Biography, Black Writers, History, Non-Fiction, United States, Writers of Color
ORANGE COUNTY through the eyes of the creator of “Ask A Mexican!”; well-researched, irreverent, poignant, and real. B PLUS
ORANGE COUNTY: A PERSONAL HISTORY by Gustavo Arellano
New York: Simon and Schuster
September 2008
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews, California, History, Latino and Latina Writers, Mexican-American Writers, Non-Fiction, United States
AN EVANGELICAL GIRLHOOD in 1970s Missouri, remembered with a refreshing touch of sardonic, yet always loving, wit. B PLUS
DATING JESUS: A STORY OF FUNDAMENTALISM, FEMINISM, AND THE AMERICAN GIRL by Susan Campbell
Boston: Beacon Press
January 2009
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Religion, United States
19TH CENTURY US SOCIAL HISTORY, centering on a star-studded 1882 banquet honoring Social Darwinist Herbert Spencer. SOLID A
BANQUET AT DELMONICO’S: GREAT MINDS, THE GILDED AGE, AND THE TRIUMPH OF EVOLUTION IN AMERICA by Barry Werth
New York: Random House
January 2009
Grade: SOLID A
Tags: History, History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science, Solid A Reviews, United States