Lists of Bests: The Washington Post's "Book World Top Nonfiction of 2009" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/69076 Thu, 31 May 2012 18:52:52 GMT en-us 0 50 89 50 0 A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392985 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392985"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51m1EapfSZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elaine Showalter</div> Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392986 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392986"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514bHmz2xzL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D. J. Taylor</div> On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392987 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392987"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gOL6PtBrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen T. Asma</div> Charles Dickens http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392988 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392988"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CWztrt7YL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Slater</div> Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7385663 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7385663"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iBaJQQzML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Apostolos Doxiadis</div> The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7193345 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7193345"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LCfjPFt6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adrienne Mayor</div> Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4053085 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Bate</div> Tchaikovsky (Master Musicians Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392989 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392989"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51f29UKJZZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roland John Wiley</div> A. Lincoln: A Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4248809 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4248809"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Aan0An46L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ronald C. White Jr.</div> The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392990 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392990"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ImL-7hedL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jason Kersten</div> The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6640634 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6640634"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EWaiuNLGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T.J. Stiles</div> The Ascent of George Washington: Character, Politics, Fame http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5168100 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Ferling</div> Mr. America: How Muscular Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden Transformed the Nation Through Sex, Salad, and the Ultimate Starvation Diet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5993179 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5993179"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KOm-Nt4eL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Adams</div> Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5435239 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5435239"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51OE9mKbLsL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carol Sklenicka</div> The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392991 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392991"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D9NLRUpzL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth Whyte</div> Under the Big Sky: A Biography of A. B. Guthrie Jr. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5378221 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5378221"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uX39hBlIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jackson J. Benson</div> Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3886355 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3886355"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fR%2BqVqCAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Sragow</div> Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5464003 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5464003"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515l2CG9XDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gillian Tett</div> In CHEAP We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392992 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392992"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aGkGPK9rL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lauren Weber</div> In FED We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6749313 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6749313"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BrfYrjjdL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Wessel</div> Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations: Clashing Egos, Inflated Ambitions, and the Great Shambles of the World Trade System http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392993 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392993"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EXOwyuytL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Blustein</div> Alger Hiss and the Battle for History (Icons of America) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5101652 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5101652"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416bOk-nYDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Jacoby</div> The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7144583 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7144583"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41rBwy5cdlL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Timothy Egan</div> A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6570386 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6570386"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M2PqGwzaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Rayner</div> A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392994 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392994"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516z9IkfRuL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert J. Mrazek</div> A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6547605 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6547605"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cE13kp-JL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Sheehan</div> Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6252431 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6252431"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ga%2B8NCb9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Algeo</div> The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6055203 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6055203"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516dcENx3DL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas Thompson</div> K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5370559 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Carlson</div> 1959: The Year Everything Changed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7079913 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7079913"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DKwRxJEDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fred Kaplan</div> On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6504355 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6504355"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zXAF86QsL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert M M. Poole</div> Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5002661 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martha A. Sandweiss</div> The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4745926 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4745926"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lzNAYRIwL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Mann</div> Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (American History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392995 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392995"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K6bGDzp3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jackson Lears</div> Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6931388 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6931388"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510AIMMgPxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joel Richard Paul</div> Vicksburg, 1863 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5531725 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5531725"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SvRKeMW-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Winston Groom</div> When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6544869 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6544869"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51f5stNHM1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gail Collins</div> The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5368957 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5368957"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TxgGbJKrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Holmes</div> The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6610930 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6610930"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QfLOCKiQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John V. Fleming</div> Armenian Golgotha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5173084 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Grigoris Balakian</div> Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation: 1918-1940 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5040560 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5040560"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z94XqOGLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.J. Taylor</div> The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6760608 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6760608"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y3OO25fnL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toby Lester</div> The Hindus: An Alternative History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7290342 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7290342"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mnujY6D7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wendy Doniger</div> How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6236985 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6236985"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-8qdcSwaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adrian Goldsworthy</div> The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392996 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392996"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51OozXrusAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janet Soskice</div> There Is No Freedom Without Bread!: 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392997 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392997"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iUj6jVdcL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Constantine Pleshakov</div> The Third Reich at War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4149740 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4149740"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516crSFQuIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard J. Evans</div> The Year that Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392998 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7392998"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nt%2BzwtWnL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6970404 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6970404"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G0gXbN7KL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steve Luxenberg</div> The Art and Politics of Science http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6176166 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6176166"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51icAXLSDxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harold Varmus</div>