Good Reads - Nonfiction

Pivotal Years: Defining Moments in History

342.73 STE
The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution by David O. Stewart

796.357 MUR
Crazy ’08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History by Cait Murphy

909.826 KUR
1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky

940.3141 MAC
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Olwen Macmillan

940.53 GRO
1942: The Year That Tried Men’s Souls by Winston Groom

941.072 MAC
1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World by Frank McLynn

942.021 BRI
1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry by Andrew Bridgeford

942.033 DAN
1215: The Year of Magna Carta by Danny Danziger

970.011 MAN
1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

973.3 MAC
1776 by David G. McCullough

973.52 BOR
1812: The War That Forged a Nation by Walter R. Borneman

973.7 STE
1863: The Rebirth of a Nation by Joseph E. Stevens

973.89 TRA
1898: The Birth of the American Century by David Traxel

973.916 KLI
1929: The Year of the Great Crash by William K. Klingaman

973.923 PIE
1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies by David Pietrusza

973.924 KIL
1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America by Andreas Killen

Prepared by Chris Portman, December 2008