Board lander photo
Board lander photo caption
front row: K.A. Willey, E. Robinson, D. Kennedy, S. Gissler, A.M. Lipinski, N. Lemann, J. Amoss
back row: J. VandeHei, J. Diaz, K. Carroll, T. Friedman, G. Moore, J. Dehli, P. Tash, D. Allen, R. Beck, L. Bollinger, P. Gigot.
Board Lander Sub Title
David M. Kennedy, chair; Sig Gissler, administrator
S.C. Gwynne
Publication
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Citation
A memorable examination of the longest and most brutal of all the wars between European settlers and a single Indian tribe.
Publisher
Scribner
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2011
Categories:
General Nonfiction
Nicholas Carr
Publication
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Citation
A thought provoking exploration of the Internet's physical and cultural consequences, rendering highly technical material intelligible to the general reader.
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
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2011
Categories:
General Nonfiction
Michael O'Brien
Publication
Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon
Citation
A graceful account of a remarkable journey by Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of a future president, who traveled with a young son across a Europe still reeling from warfare.
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2011
Categories:
Biography
Stephanie McCurry
Publication
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
Citation
An insightful work analyzing the experience of disenfranchised white women and black slaves who were left when Confederate soldiers headed for the battlefield.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
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2011
Categories:
History