6 Jan 2011
Jim Flynn - America
The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books. America: Dos Passos: USA; Gore Vidal: Burr, 1876, Lincoln, Empire, Hollywood, The Golden Age; Bruce Catton trilogy: Mr Lincoln's Army, Glory Road, A Stillness at Appomattox. also, The Centennial History of the Civil War; Irving Howe: World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made; Oscar Handlin: The Uprooted; John Kennedy Toole: Confederacy of Dunces; Sue Kaufman: Diary of a Mad Housewife.