Awards search:Notable Books List

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

by Studs Terkel
Paperback, 1971
Tags
reference, documents, biography, nonfiction, Larry, economic depression, Great Depression, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, economic history — 13 more, oral history, history, United States, priority, economy, google partial, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Alabama, CPUSA, book, OWS/Library overlap, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
E806.T45 1970

The Best and the Brightest

by David Halberstam
Paperback, 1987
Tags
nonfiction, history, United States, book, journalism, 20th century, 1960s, politics, government, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy — 14 more, Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, Dean Rusk, Walter W. Rostow, Vietnam War, foreign policy, presidential advisors, google partial, needs tags, Maxwell Taylor, William Westmoreland, ≥40 global ratings, Publisher-Penguin, √move
Status
Available
Call number
E841.H25 1972

Soul on Ice

by Eldridge Cleaver
Paperback, 1968
Tags
nonfiction, Larry, short, African Americans, black power, memoir, Eldridge Cleaver, google snippet, Aimé Césaire, book, OWS/Library overlap — 25 more, cover-white, James Baldwin, Beatles, Black Muslims, Brute Power, Elijah Muhammad, Floyd Patterson, Folsom Prison, liberation, Chris Lovdjieff, Norman Mailer, Malcolm X, masculinity, police, Richard Wright, San Quentin, Vietnam War, W. E. B. Du Bois, google terms added, ≥40 global ratings, patriarchy, manhood, sexism, Read in 2017, move √
Status
Available
Call number
E185.97.C6 1968

Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow
Paperback, 2004
Tags
Highland Park Yard Sale 2011, nonfiction, history, biography, Alexander Hamilton, United States, colonial period, American Revolution, constitutional convention, early republic, Federalists — 12 more, politics, politicians, government, 18th century, 19th century, google partial, Anti-Federalists, book, AQR 2011, cover-brown, ≥40 global ratings, Publisher-Penguin
Status
Available
Call number
E302.6.H2C48 2004

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

by Richard Hofstadter
Paperback, 1966
Tags
Larry, nonfiction, intellectuals, United States, Publisher-Vintage, Adlai Stevenson, needs tags, google partial, book, American studies, cover-yellow — 2 more, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
E169.1.H74 1963

Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

by Dee Alexander Brown
Paperback, 2001
Tags
19th century, American West, genocide, removal, nonfiction, ind-read-list, Indians, Native Americans, indigenous, land, land tenure — 22 more, war, violence, history, the West, United States, Apaches, Sioux, Lakotas, Oglalas, Cheyennes, Comanches, Crazy Horse, Publisher-Holt, google partial, American bison, American Indians, book, AQR 2004, OWS/Library overlap, cover-brown, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
E81.B75 2001

The Affluent Society

by John Kenneth Galbraith
Paperback, 1958
Tags
nonfiction, Larry, economics, government, history, United States, Publisher-New American Library, economy, affluence, 20th century, consumer society — 8 more, conspicuous consumption, google partial, Adam Smith, advertising, book, needs tags, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HB171.G14 1958

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

by James M. McPherson
Paperback, 1989
Tags
Confederacy, 19th century, slavery, nonfiction, favorite nonfiction, ind-read-list, civil wars, war, history, United States, American Civil War — 15 more, Publisher-Ballantine, google partial, 49ers, 54th Massachusetts, Abraham Lincoln, Alabama, Alexander H. Stephens, Andersonville, book, AQR 2005, S-The Oxford History of the United States, cover-brown, ≥10 global ratings, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Series
The Oxford History of the United States (6)
Status
Available
Call number
E470.M36 1988

Stalin: A Political Biography; Second Edition

by Isaac Deutscher
Paperback, 1968
Tags
Larry, Joseph Stalin, dictators, Soviet Union, history, 20th century, Russia, government, violence, Publisher-Oxford University Press, nonfiction — 61 more, google snippet, Alexander I of Russia, Alexander II of Russia, Andrei Zhdanov, anti-fascism, book, cover-white, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Baku, Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, bourgeoise, Nikolai Bukharin, Caucasus, Central Committee, Winston Churchill, Comintern, diplomacy, Jozef Djugashvili, Hitler, Kamenev, Koba, Kremlin, labor, land, V.I. Lenin, Leninism, Marxism, Mensheviks, Molotov, Vyacheslav Molotov, Moscow, Narodniks, Okhrana, peasants, Saint Petersburg, Petersburg Soviet, Poland, Politburo, Pravda, proletariat, purges, Red Army, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rykov, Social Democratic Party, socialists, Stalingrad, Stalinism, Tiflis, unions, Leon Trotsky, Trotskyists, tsars, Ukraine, Kliment Voroshilov, workers, Grigory Zinoviev, google terms added, WWII, move √
Status
Available
Call number
DK268.S8D48 1966

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

by Studs Terkel
Hardcover, 1974
Tags
Read in 2011, nonfiction, work, labor, history, working class, class, United States, workers, autobiography, oral history — 16 more, Publisher-Pantheon Books, cultural studies, 20th century, 1970s, google partial, absenteeism, adult education, advertising, book, OWS/Library overlap, ≥40 global ratings, hardcover, dustjacket, conditions of labor, mcr?, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HD8072.T4 1974

Plagues and Peoples

by William H. McNeill
Hardcover, 1976
Tags
mcr135, Read in 2007, nonfiction, cycle purchase 05/01/07, ind-read-list, illness, health, history, epidemics, disease, Black Death — 17 more, cholera, environmental history, Publisher-Anchor, google partial, Amerindians, ancient China, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient India, ancient Mesopotamia, hardcover, dustjacket, book, AQR 2007, world history, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
RA649.M3 1976

The Mismeasure of Man

by Stephen Jay Gould
Hardcover, 1981
Tags
mcr139, Read in 2007, cycle purchase 05/01/07, psychology, history, nonfiction, ability testing, biology, craniometry, IQ, intelligence — 42 more, Cyril Burt, ind-read-list, Publisher-Norton, ability, Arthur Jensen, behavior, Bell Curve, Alfred Binet, biological determinism, brain, Charles Spearman, cranial capacity, measurement, criminals, factor analysis, foramen magnum, Henry H. Goddard, group factors, heredity, innate intelligence, Cesare Lombroso, mental tests, Samuel George Morton, neoteny, Paul Broca, polygenesis, racism, ranking, Richard Herrnstein, skulls, Lewis Terman, Louis Leon Thurstone, Robert M. Yerkes, google partial, anatomy, hardcover, dustjacket, book, AQR 2007, ≥40 global ratings, google terms added, move √
Status
Available
Call number
BF431.G68 1981

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

by Adam Hochschild
Paperback, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, politics, government, 19th century, racism, history, forced labor, human rights movement, colonialism, Belgium, imperialism — 16 more, ivory, rubber, class-ugrad-RU-umhist, Congo, Africa, human rights, rights, indigenous, Publisher-Mifflin, google partial, anti-colonialism, book, cover-black, ≥40 global ratings, William Sheppard, move √
Status
Available
Call number
DT655.H63 1998

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

by Jane Jacobs
Hardcover, 1961
Tags
nonfiction, city planning, government, urban planning, history, cities, urban, Publisher-Modern Library, favorite nonfiction, UP Library, Read in 2013 — 10 more, ≥10 global ratings, ≥40 global ratings, hardcover, dustjacket, first edition, book, google partial, needs tags, move √, walkability
Status
Available
Call number
HT167.J33 1961

The New Industrial State; Second Edition, Revised

by John Kenneth Galbraith
Paperback, 1972
Tags
nonfiction, Larry, government, the state, industry, industrialization, production, capitalism, United States, Publisher-New American Library, economic theory — 6 more, labor, google partial, advertising, book, needs tags, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HC106.5.G33 1971

World of Our Fathers

by Irving Howe
Paperback, 1976
Tags
nonfiction, immigrants, immigration, migration, Jews, New York City, New York, cities, socialism, politics, history — 55 more, United States, Yiddish, language, Central Europe, HP Library book sale 2011-05-21, google snippet, AFL, Al Jolson, Aleksandr Herzen, Alexander Berkman, Alexander II of Russia, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, CPUSA, American Jewish Committee, anarchists, book, AQR 2011, cover-white, urban history, Abraham Cahan, Jacob Adler, Bund, Bundists, Celia Adler, Communist Party, East Side, Jewish Daily Forward, garment workers, Morris Hillquit, ILGWU, intellectuals, Kehilla, labor, landsmanshaftn, H. Leivick, Lillian Wald, Morris Raphael Cohen, Orthodox Jews, rabbis, Sholom Aleichem, strikes, Tammany Hall, Workmen's Circle, Yiddish culture, Yiddish literature, Yiddish press, Yiddish theatre, Yiddish writers, Yiddishkeit, Zionists, google terms added, urban, amazon source recheck, move √, needs cover
Status
Available
Call number
F128.9.J5H6 1976

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

by John W. Dower
Paperback, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, yard sales 9/8/07, 20th century, WWII, WWII reconstruction, United States, foreign relations, ∫Book-The Making of Modern Japan, ∫Review-Monumenta Nipponica, occupation, Douglas MacArthur — 41 more, democratization, emperors, constitution, Tokyo, politics, 1940s, 1950s, history, Japan, Publisher-Norton, priority, Asahi Shimbun, Ashida Hitoshi, censorship, Communist Party, Emperor Hirohito, kasutori, Kodansha, Koseki, labor, Meiji Constitution, military, Nagasaki, Potsdam Declaration, SCAP, Tenno, Tokyo tribunal, TYKS, Yomiuri Shimbun, Yoshida Shigeru, zaibatsu, economy, google partial, alcoholism, anti-militarism, book, AQR 2007, cover-white, amazon source recheck, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
DS889.D69 1999

The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky : 1929-1940

by Isaac Deutscher
Hardcover, 1963
Tags
biography, nonfiction, Leon Trotsky, radicals, revolutionaries, communists, history, 20th century, 1930s, exile, politics — 6 more, Publisher-Verso, workers' councils, needs tags, hardcover, dustjacket, book
Series
Trotsky Trilogy (3)
Status
Available
Call number
DK254.T6D415 1963

The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System

by Milovan Djilas
Paper Book, 1962
Tags
nonfiction, Communism, class, politics, economics, political economy, Communist Party, the state, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, needs tags — 2 more, book, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HX365.5.D49 1957

The Power Elite

by C. Wright Mills
Paperback, 1973
Tags
nonfiction, yard sales 9/8/07, elites, power, sociology, class, 20th century, government, corporations, bureaucracy, history — 10 more, United States, Publisher-Oxford University Press, priority, google partial, book, AQR 2007, OWS/Library overlap, needs tags, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HN90.P6M55 1956

Paul Robeson

by Martin Bauml Duberman
Hardcover, 1988
Tags
biography, nonfiction, favorite nonfiction, ind-read-list, African Americans, Paul Robeson, radicals, musicians, singers, history, United States — 46 more, activists, 20th century, Publisher-Knopf, cultural history, google snippet, A'Lelia Walker, hardcover, dustjacket, book, AQR 2005, OWS/Library overlap, actors, Ben Davis, Revels Cayton, Clara Rockmore, Communist Party, CPUSA, The Emperor Jones, Essie Robeson, Freda Diamond, Harlem, Helen Rosen, Otto Kahn, Larry Brown, London, Moscow, NAACP, Eugene O'Neill, Othello, Peekskill NY, Pittsburgh Courier, Rockmore, Rutgers University, Show Boat, Smith Act, Soviet Union, theater, Uta Hagen, Carl Van Vechten, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter White, Yale University, Max Yergan, Yolande Jackson, google terms added, move √
Status
Available
Call number
E185.97.R63D83 1988

The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

by Lewis Mumford
Hardcover, 1961
Tags
407, StbR, move √, nonfiction, yard sales 9/8/07, cities, city planning, urban, Publisher-Harcourt, google partial, Adam Smith — 22 more, Aegean, Leon Battista Alberti, Alexander the Great, Alexandria, almshouses, Amana community, Amarna, Amsterdam, ancient civilization, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Rome, Anglo-Saxons, hardcover, book, AQR 2007, urban planning, urban history, UP Library, world history, ≥40 global ratings
Status
Available
Call number
HT111.M8 1961

Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made

by Eugene D. Genovese
Paperback, 1976
Tags
mcr010, nonfiction, ind-read-list, slaves, slavery, United States, history, Publisher-Vintage, early republic, antebellum, needs tags — 10 more, history of the family, google partial, Afro-Christianity, Alabama, American South, book, AQR 2004, cover-red, move √, ≥40 global ratings
Status
Available
Call number
E443.G46 1974

Triangle: The Fire that Changed America

by Dave Von Drehle
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
mcr011, signed, biography, nonfiction, factories, clothing, cloth, 20th century, 1910s, fire, occupational safety — 28 more, work, workers, women, Triangle Shirtwaist Company, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, ind-read-list, labor, labor law, law, New York City, New York, United States, cities, history, disasters, google partial, 1909 shirtwaist strike, Al Smith, Alva Belmont, hardcover, dustjacket, book, OWS/Library overlap, urban history, ≥40 global ratings, urban, women workers, move √
Status
Available
Call number
F128.5.V688 2003

The Pentagon Papers: As Published by the New York Times

by Neil Sheehan
Paperback, 1971
Tags
reference, documents, nonfiction, Larry, foreign relations, United States, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, politics, government, history — 45 more, Vietnam War, war, 20th century, 1960s, 1970s, Publisher-Bantam, google snippet, 1954 Geneva Conference, agroville program, Allen Dulles, book, cover-white, air strikes, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., bombing, Cambodia, Joint Chiefs of Staff, coups d'etat, Danang, escalation, Geneva Accords (1954), guerrillas, Haiphong, Hanoi, Paul D. Harkins, Indochina, Laos, McGeorge Bundy, John McNaughton, national security, Ngo Dinh Diem, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Dean Rusk, Saigon, Robert McNamara, South Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin, military, Viet Cong, Viet Minh, William Westmoreland, William Bundy, google terms added, move √
Status
Available
Call number
E183.8.V5P4 1971

"The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two

by Studs Terkel
Paperback, 1985
Tags
history, Europe, reference, documents, biography, nonfiction, Larry, United States, oral history, Japan, soldiers — 13 more, World War Two, WWII, war, 20th century, 1940s, priority, Publisher-Ballantine, google partial, book, OWS/Library overlap, world history, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
D811.A2G58 1984

The Age of Jackson

by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Hardcover, 1951
Tags
yard sales 9/9/06, nonfiction, Andrew Jackson, presidents, history, 19th century, politics, United States, Publisher-Little Brown, priority, early republic — 51 more, google snippet, Abraham Lincoln, Adam Smith, Albert Gallatin, Alexander Hamilton, American Frontier, anti-clericalism, hardcover, book, AQR 2006, Amos Kendall, banks, Barnburners, Thomas Hart Benton, Nicholas Biddle, Francis Preston Blair, Orestes Brownson, William Cullen Bryant, John C. Calhoun, C. C. Cambreleng, Henry Clay, Congress, Democratic Party, Edward Everett, Fanny Wright, federalism, A. C. Flagg, George Bancroft, hard-money, David Henshaw, John Quincy Adams, John Van Buren, William Leggett, Locofocos, Martin Van Buren, Massachusetts, Preston King, William H. Seward, Silas Wright, slavery, Charles Sumner, Roger B. Taney, tariffs, Theodore Sedgwick, Whigs, Workingmen's Party, google terms added, William Henry Harrison, amazon source recheck, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
E381.S38 1945

Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare

by Frances Fox Piven
Paperback, 1972
Tags
nonfiction, history, United States, politics, government, labor, poverty, the state, welfare, AFDC, relief — 22 more, work, unemployment, unemployed, Great Depression, New Deal, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Great Society, protest, reform, Publisher-Vintage, priority, welfare rights movement, missing where from, google snippet, book, OWS/Library overlap, welfare rights, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HV95.P57 1971

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

by Manning Marable
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, biography, Malcolm X, United States, history, African Americans, Nation of Islam, black power, 20th century, 1940s, 1950s — 10 more, 1960s, assassination, OP2011-2015, ≥40 global ratings, needs tags, dustjacket, book, hardcover, move √, Read in 2018
Status
Available
Call number
BP223.Z8L57636 2011

Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: Volume I: The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible

by Fernand Braudel
Hardcover, 1981
Tags
translation, French, nonfiction, economic history, social history, history, economics, economy, daily life, Publisher-Harper, Annales School — 12 more, needs tags, 15th century, 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, Western Civilization, wheat, needs cover, needs physical data, book, hardcover, dustjacket
Series
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century (1)
Status
Available
Call number
HC51.B67413 v.1 1981
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