Washington Post Best Books of 2008 - Non-fiction

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1. 1. Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory by Roy Blount Jr. Drag me to re-order

2. 2. Chagall: A Biography by Jackie Wullschlager Drag me to re-order

3. 3. Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life by Timothy W. Ryback Drag me to re-order

4. 4. How Fiction Works by James Wood Drag me to re-order

5. 5. Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury by Alison Light Drag me to re-order

6. 6. Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography by Stanley Plumly Drag me to re-order

7. 7. Rostropovich: The Musical Life of the Great Cellist, Teacher, and Legend by Elizabeth Wilson Drag me to re-order

8. 8. The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad by John Stape Drag me to re-order

9. 9. A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey Drag me to re-order

10. 10. ? White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple Drag me to re-order

11. 11. Alfred Kazin: A Biography by Richard M. Cook Drag me to re-order

12. 12. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham Drag me to re-order

13. 13. Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times by Dennis McDougal Drag me to re-order

14. 14. Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life by Paul Mariani Drag me to re-order

15. 15. Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings Drag me to re-order

16. 16. Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman by Francine du Plessix Gray Drag me to re-order

17. 17. The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Andrew Lycett Drag me to re-order

18. 18. The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer Drag me to re-order

19. 19. A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster Drag me to re-order

20. 20. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder Drag me to re-order

21. 21. Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal Drag me to re-order

22. 22. Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands Drag me to re-order

23. 23. ? Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson Drag me to re-order

24. 24. ? The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French Drag me to re-order

25. 25. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson Drag me to re-order

26. 26. High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families by Peter Gosselin Drag me to re-order

27. 27. Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood Drag me to re-order

28. 28. ? While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis by Roger Lowenstein Drag me to re-order

29. 29. ? America and the World by Zbigniew Brzezinski & Brent Scowcroft Drag me to re-order

30. 30. Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power by Fred Kaplan Drag me to re-order

31. 31. Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq by Jonathan Steele Drag me to re-order

32. 32. Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention by Gary J. Bass Drag me to re-order

33. 33. The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew Bacevich Drag me to re-order

34. 34. American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work by Nick Taylor Drag me to re-order

35. 35. American Transcendentalism: A History by Philip F. Gura Drag me to re-order

36. 36. ? Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First BlackCongressmen by Philip Dray Drag me to re-order

37. 37. The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction by Charles Lane Drag me to re-order

38. 38. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights: 1919-1950 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore Drag me to re-order

39. 39. Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution by Prof. Ian Kershaw Drag me to re-order

40. 40. Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Allen C. Guelzo Drag me to re-order

41. 41. Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetry, Politics and War by Peter Demetz Drag me to re-order

42. 42. Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine by Scott E. Casper Drag me to re-order

43. 43. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) by Drew Gilpin Faust Drag me to re-order

44. 44. ? Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877 by Walter A. Mcdougall Drag me to re-order

45. 45. Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook Drag me to re-order

46. 46. Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson (American History) by David S. Reynolds Drag me to re-order

47. 47. Audition: A Memoir by Barbara Walters Drag me to re-order

48. 48. Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History by Ted Sorensen Drag me to re-order

49. 49. From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island by Lorna Goodison Drag me to re-order

50. 50. Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey by Perri Knize Drag me to re-order

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