A list of books I have requested from the library, and books I want to order once they are published. Just so I can have a place where I remember to look for these books/
Books I am going to read at some point
------James Sullivan - "The Hardest Working Man," an account of James Brown's Boston Garden concert following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (to be published some time this summer)
--------Winchester Simon - "The Professor and the Madman" - the creation of the Oxford Dictionary
---------Joshua Kendall - "The Man who made lists" - about the creation of Roget's Thesaurus
---------David Hajdu - "The Great Comic Book Scare and how it changed America" - about Fred Wertham's campaign against comic books
----- Schaeffer, Frank - "AWOL: The unexcused absence of the upper class from Military Service"
Requested from the library already
----- The Bin Ladens : an Arabian family in the American century / Steve Coll.
------ Predictably irrational : the hidden forces that shape our decisions / Dan Ariely.
------ Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA / Tim Weiner.
----- Unruly Americans and the origins of the Constitution / Woody Holton.
------ Leviathan : the history of whaling in America / Eric Jay Dolin.
------ The soiling of Old Glory : the story of a photograph that shocked America / Louis P. Masur.
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