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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Peter Sis · 56 pages
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, maps ; 32 cmAD760L Lexile
A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar · 460 pages
Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr., suffered a breakdown at age thirty-one and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but experienced a remission of his illness thirty years later.
Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War
Owen Matthews · 308 pages
A raw, vivid family memoir about lineage and escape - how we struggle to define ourselves in opposition to our ancestry only to find ourselves aligning with it, trapped in the skeins of history.
Scoundrel Time
Lillian Hellman, Kathy Bates, Garry Wills · 155 pages
In 1952, Hellman joined the ranks of intellectuals and artists called before Congress to testify about political subversion. Terrified yet defiant, Hellman refused to incriminate herself or others, and managed to avoid trial. Nonetheless the experience brought devastating controversy and loss. Her retelling of the time features a remarkable cast of characters, including her lover, novelist Dashiel
Marzi
Marzena Sowa · 230 pages
Marzena Sowa's memoir of a childhood shaped by politics as told from a young girl's perspective. Structured as a series of vignettes that build on one another, MARZI is a coming-of-age story that portrays the harsh realities of life behind the Iron Curtain while maintaining the everyday wonders and curiosity of childhood.
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · 364 pages
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham · 538 pages
Berlin 1961
Frederick Kempe · 640 pages
Based on a new documents and interviews, this work is a look at the Berlin Crisis of 1961, with powerful applications for the present. In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called it "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping the Cold War, and more pe
Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion
Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain · 384 pages
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
Anya von Bremzen · 338 pages
Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, the author grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable.
Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy
Ted Widmer · 320 pages
A uniquely unscripted, insider account of Kennedy and his cabinet grappling with the day-to-day business of the White House and guiding the nation through a hazardous era of uncertainty. Features extensively annotated transcripts of the recordings and a foreword by Caroline Kennedy.
Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America
Chris Matthews · 400 pages
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
Frank Brady
After The Wall
Jana Hensel · 202 pages
Hensel was born in Leipzig, East Germany, in 1976 and was 13 when the Berlin Wall fell. This memoir, a bestseller in Germany, portrays the disorientation of her generation, whose upbringing under communism ended abruptly with the integration of East and West Germany.
Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story
Jack Devine, Vernon Loeb · 324 pages
A CIA veteran with extensive experience in covert operations presents a guide to the art of spycraft while illuminating the CIA's essential role, sharing a cautionary message about its recent transition toward paramilitary activities.
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Kristen Iversen · 416 pages
The Atomic Times: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground
Michael Harris · 288 pages
The Unwitting
Ellen Feldman · 286 pages
"During the Cold War, many liberal anti-communist writers, artists, musicians, and intellectuals ended up working for organizations that were CIA fronts. CIA protocol dictated that one individual in the various organizations would be investigated, sworn to secrecy, and told about the CIA connection and funding. That individual was, in Agency parlance, witting. Everyone else was unwitting. The Unwi
My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
Fidel Castro, Ignacio Ramonet · 608 pages