American History Uncloaked – Nonfiction

In The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II, David Nasaw writes about its veterans and their loved ones as they confronted the aftershocks of the war. Suffering from recurring nightmares, uncontrollable rages, and social isolation, soldiers were treated by doctors who had little understanding of PTSD. Divorce rates doubled. Alcoholism was rampant. Racial tensions heightened. It’s a hidden chapter of American history. In The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century, Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner tells the high-stakes story of the CIA through the first quarter of this century. Having become a lethal paramilitary force after September 11, the agency had all but abandoned its core missions of espionage and counterespionage. The Mission argues that it must reclaim them: Know thy enemies.
Buy The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II – Nasaw
Buy The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century – Weiner

Authors

DAVID NASAW is a historian, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the bestselling author of The Last Million, named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus, and History Today; The Patriarch, a New York Times best nonfiction book of the year; Andrew Carnegie, winner of the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize; and The Chief, winner of the Bancroft Prize. He is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History Emeritus at the CUNY Graduate Center and a past president of the Society of American Historians. In 2023, he was honored by the New York Public Library as a “Library Lion.”

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