http://www.listsofbests.com/list/35671 from amazon: Stephen Ambrose described Douglas Brinkley as "the best of the new generation of American historians," and he has quickly become one of the most prolific and wide-ranging interpreters of the American past, writing bestselling accounts of everything from the founder of the Knights of Columbus to John Kerry's tour in Vietnam, editing the letters of Hunter S. Thompson and the journals of Jack Kerouac, and recounting, in 'The Majic Bus," the road-trip-for-college-credit he led through the hip and historical landmarks of the U.S.A. He has most recently been a professor of history at Tulane University in New Orleans, and he begins his list of the 10 books to read on New Orleans with a description of his own latest book, one of the first authoritative accounts of the disastrous Hurricane Katrina, whose terrible destruction he witnessed first-hand. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:52:00 GMT en-us 0 50 10 0 0 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2796809 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2796809"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11YToblpF2L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Brinkley</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19415 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19415"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684840022.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John M. Barry</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/370646 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/370646"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0306802767.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis Armstrong</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/667001 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/667001"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374525323.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nelson Algren</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5592 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5592"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0306810123.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113616837_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chris Wiltz</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24039 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24039"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802130208.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491820_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kennedy Toole</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423672 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423672"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0413773272.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walker Percy</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29048 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29048"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400050081.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Poppy Z. Brite</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85485 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85485"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565125053.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrei Codrescu</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/170068 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/170068"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0374138257.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jed Horne</div>