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- Theodore H. White (1962), The Making of the President 1960
- Barbara Tuchman (1963), The Guns of August
- Richard Hofstadter 1 (1964), Anti-Intellectualism in American
Life
- David Brion Davis (1967), The Problem of Slavery in Western
Culture
- Ariel Durant (1968), Rousseau And Revolution (The Story Of Civilization: Volume
10, with Will Durant)
- Norman Mailer (1969), The Armies Of The Night
- Erik Erikson 2
(1970), Gandhi's
Truth
- Barbara Tuchman (1972), Stilwell and the American
Experience in China, 1911-1945
- Robert Coles 3
(1973), Children of
Crisis, Volumes II and III
- Ernest Becker (1974), The Denial of Death
- Carl Sagan (1978), The Dragons of Eden
- Douglas Hofstatder (1980), Gödel, Escher, Bach: An
Eternal Golden Braid
- Carl Schorske 4
(1981), Fin-De-Siècle
Vienna:
Politics And Culture
- Susan Margulies Sheehan (1983), Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
- Paul Starr (1984), The Social Transformation Of
American Medicine
- Studs Terkel (1985), The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
- Joseph Lelyveld (1986), Move Your Shadow: South Africa,
Black and White
- J. Anthony Lukas (1986), Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade
in the Lives of Three American Families
- Daniel Yergin (1992), The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil,
Money, and Power
- David Remnick (1994), Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the
Soviet Empire
- Jonathan Weiner (1995), The Beak of the Finch: A Story of
Evolution in Our Time
- Tina Rosenberg (1996), The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's
Ghosts After Communism
- Richard Kluger (1997), Ashes to Ashes: America's
Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed
Triumph of Philip Morris
- Jared Diamond (1998), Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Herbert Bix (2001), Hirohito and the Making of Modern
Japan
- Anne Applebaum (2004), Gulag: A History
- Saul Friedlander (2008), The Years of Extermination: Nazi
Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
NOTES
1. Jewish father, non-Jewish
mother.
2. Son of a
Danish-Jewish
mother,
Karla Abrahamsen, and a German-Jewish step-father, Dr. Theodor
Homburger.
Prior to her marriage to Homburger, Erikson's mother was briefly
married
to a Danish Jew, Valdemar Isidor Salomonson. Erikson claimed,
however,
that his biological father was an unknown, non-Jewish Dane.
See http://www.multiculturalfamily.org/famousfamilies/erikson_family.shtml.
3. Jewish father, non-Jewish
mother.
4. Jewish
mother, non-Jewish father; see eighth paragraph of http://www.acls.org/op1.htm.
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