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Category:  Nonfiction (Sorted by Author's last name)


The Denial of Death (1973) - Ernest Becker (9/27/1924 -3/06/1974)    (Grade:D+)

Making Patriots (2001) - Walter Berns (5/03/1919 -1/10/2015)    (Grade:A)

An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us (1996) - James Carroll (1943-)    (Grade:D-)

The White Album (1979) - Joan Didion (12/05/1934 -12/23/2021)    (Grade:A+)

Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives (2002) - Todd Gitlin (1/06/1943 -2/05/2022)    (Grade:C-)

Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line (1991) - Ben Hamper (-)    (Grade:B-)

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man (2014) - Luke Harding (April 21, 1968-)    (Grade:B)

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963) - Richard Hofstadter (08/16/1916 -10/24/1970)    (Grade:D)

The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation (2006) - David Kamp (-)    (Grade:B-)

Making Hay (1997) - Verlyn Klinkenborg ( -1952)    (Grade:C+)

Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health (2003) - Gina Kolata (02/25/1948-)    (Grade:A-)

The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the Nationalal Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food (2009) - Mark Kurlansky (12/07/1948-)    (Grade:C)

The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life (2005) - Steve Leveen (1954-)    (Grade:B+)

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (2011) - Steven Levy (1951-)    (Grade:A+)

The Journalist and the Murderer (1990) - Janet Malcolm (-)    (Grade:A+)

Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson (1985) - Judith Martin (-)    (Grade:A-)

The American Language (1936) - H. L. Mencken (9/12/1880 -1/29/1956)    (Grade:A)

The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It (2002) - John Miller (-)    (Grade:B-)

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (1998) - Susan Orlean (10/31/1955 -)    (Grade:A)

Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon (1991) - Jim Paul (-)    (Grade:B)

The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America (1994) - Hugh Pearson (-)    (Grade:B)

The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress (1998) - Virginia Postrel (-)    (Grade:A-)

Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague (1997) - Richard Rhodes (-)    (Grade:B-)

Waiting for the Weekend (1991) - Witold Rybczynski (3/01/1943 -)    (Grade:B+)

The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense (1994) - John Ralston Saul (1947-)    (Grade:B+)

In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (1999) - Neal Stephenson (1959-)    (Grade:B+)

Suez (1966) - Hugh Thomas (1931-)    (Grade:B+)