Quest Conversations August 2015

Cold War

Dead Wake                                         Erik Larson

George F. Kennan                            John Lewis Gaddis

The Worlds of Herman Kahn       Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi

Blind Man’s Bluff                             Sherry Sontag

 

Mapping the Arctic

The Mortal Sea                                 W. Jeffrey Bolster

Cod                                                       Mark Kurlansky

Leviathan                                           Eric Jay Dolin

Against the Gods                              Peter L. Bernstein

Sextant                                               David Barrie

Longitude                                          Dava Sobel

 

Greely

Ice Blink                                            Scott Cookman

Lady Franklin’s Revenge              Ken McGoogan

The Ghost of Cape Sabine              Leonard F. Guttridge

In the Kingdom of Ice                     Hampton Sides

 

Civil War Navy

Lincoln and His Admirals              Craig L. Symonds

Civil War at Sea                                Craig L. Symonds

War on the Waters                          James M. McPherson

CSS Alabama vs USS Kearsarge  Mark Lardas

Wolf of the Deep                              Stephen Fox

 

Last Lincoln Conspirator

American Brutus  Michael Kauffman

Manhunt  James Swanson

Cotton  Sven Beckert

 

Innocents Abroad

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain Justin Kaplan

Mark Twain: Man in White  Michael Shelden

The Singular Mark Twain Fred Kaplan

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel Clemens Jerome Loving

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain

Roughing It Mark Twain

The Most Famous Man in America: A Biography of Henry Ward Beecher Debby Applegate