United States + American history

Book Reviews

• Larry H. Addington: America's War in Vietnam
  A Short Narrative History
• Elly Blue: Bikenomics
  How Bicycling Can Save the Economy
• Willa Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop
  - a novel of the Catholic Church in 19th century New Mexico
• Noam Chomsky: Deterring Democracy
  - an indictment of American imperialism
• Paul Clayton: Calling Crow
  - the Spanish are raiding for slaves on the North American coast
• John Kenneth Galbraith: The Culture of Contentment
• Bruce L. Gardner: American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century
  How it Flourished and What it Cost
• Brian Hayes: Infrastructure*
  A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
• Thomas Keneally: The Place Where Souls Are Born
  A Journey to the Southwest
• Henry Maurer: Strange Ground
  An Oral History of Americans in Vietnam 1945-1975
• Robert S. McElvaine: The Great Depression
  America, 1929-1941
• John McPhee: Annals of the Former World**
  - travels across the United States with geologists
• Lawrence R. Tenzer: The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War
  A New Look at the Slavery Issue
• Barbara W. Tuchman: The First Salute
  A View of the American Revolution

I spent a month in the United States in 1994, visiting California and Arizona.