Witty satire of political life in Washington DC. Still a timely read 30+ years later.

Welcome to Washington, Mr. Witherspoon: A novel

Tiede, Tom

Morrow

An entertaining, acerbic look at the self-help industry in America and the culture that supports it describes Americans' fascination with and addiction to self-help books; examines the self-absorption, media irresponsibility, celebrity fascination, and other cultural afflictions that cause it; and calls for a return to the American value of self-reliance.

Self-Help Nation: The Long Overdue, Entirely Justified, Delightfully Hostile Guide to the Snake-Oil Peddlers Who Are Sapping Our Nation's Soul

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Atlantic Monthly Pr

Recounts the efforts, in 1985, to save a humpback whale which mistakenly swam into California's Sacramento River

Great Whale Rescue: An American Folk Epic

Science & Math

Findleton, Jack

Technology

Pharos Books

Interviews with fifty Americans over seventy share their impressions of the events of the twentieth century

American Tapestry: Eyewitness Accounts of the Twentieth Century

History

Americas

Interviews with fifty Americans over seventy share their impressions of the events of the twentiety century

The Man Who Discovered Pluto: And Other Eyewitness Accounts of 20th Century America

A street poll of 100 people in New York City found only seven who had heard of the James River, and three who placed it correctly in the state of Virginia. This is less an ignorance than an example of historical memory loss. The James was at the center of English-speaking American activity for 200 years. The British put their first settlement on its shore, patriots use it to create a new nation, and the remarkable waterway served centrally in the preservation of that nation. It may today be all but forgotten, but that does not diminish its historic importance to the country and the world. Forget the Pilgrims and Massachusetts Bay; English America was created on Virginia's James River.

The Journey of the James: Here is Where America Began, On a River of Blood and Promise

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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