Welcome to the Manhasset Historical Society reading list!
The purpose of this page is to present to community members avenues through which they may expand their understanding of American history, economics, and psychology, or simply enjoy the informative prose of talented authors. If you happen to have any additional contributions, write us! Email your suggestions to jefftorborg@aol.com; we’re happy to consider and/or post any pieces that help further appreciation of historical knowledge and the pursuit thereof.
I. About Manhasset
Moon Over Manhasset, by Dakota Cassidy
The Tender Bar: A Memoir, by J. R. Moehringer
Manhasset Stories: A Baby Boomer Looks Back, by Suzanne McLain Rosenwasser
Manhasset Stories: More Baby Boomer Memories, by Suzanne McLain Rosenwasser
North Hempstead, by Howard Kroplick
The Long Island Motor Parkway, by Howard Kroplick and Al Velocci
Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island, by Howard Kroplick
II. US History
John Adams, by David McCullough
Grant, by Jean Edward Smith
Theodore Rex, by Edmund Morris
Making Haste From Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and their World, by Nick Bunker
Love and Hate in Jamestown, by David A. Price
American Colonies, by Alan Taylor
1776, by David McCullough
Founding Brothers, by Joseph J. Ellis
The Radicalism of the American Revolution, by Gordon S. Wood
The War that Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War, by Fred Anderson
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, by Gordon S. Wood
Founding Brothers, by Joseph Ellis
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, by Joseph Ellis
The Federalist Papers, by James Madison, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton
A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America, by John Kukla
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, by Meriwether Lewis, William Clarke
The Civil War of 1812, by Alan Taylor
Killing Lincoln, by Bill O’ Reilly
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Goodman
The Spanish War, by G. J. A. O’ Toole
The Civil War, A Narrative, by Shelby Foote
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, by Daniel Walker Howe
Trail of Tears, by John Ehle
Crazy Horse and Custer, by Stephen Ambrose
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown
Battle Cry of Freedom, by James McPherson
Band of Brothers, by Stephen Ambrose
The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan
No Ordinary Time, by Doris Goodwin
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
Iwo Jima: Portrait of a Battle, by Eric Hammel
Day of Infamy, by Walter Lord
A World Undone, by G. J. Meyer
Looking Like the Enemy, My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese Internment Camps, by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald
Coolidge, by Amity Shlaes
The Great Depression: America in the 1930s, by T.H. Watkins
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, by Amity Shlaes
Killing Patton, Bill O’ Reilly
The Fifties, by David Halberstam
Thirteen Days, A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Robert F. Kennedy
A Man on the Moon, the Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, by Andrew Chaikin
A Rumor of War, by Phillip Caputo
Vietnam, A History, by Stanley Karnow
Killing Kennedy, Bill O’Reilly
Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War’s Greatest Untold Story, by Patrick K. O’Donnell
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-72, by William Raymond Manchester
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, by David E. Hoffman
Killing Reagan, Bill O’Reilly
In Retrospect, by Robert McNamara
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, by Michael J. Karman
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
III. Economics
Basic Economic, Fifth Edition, by Thomas Sowell
Economic Facts and Fallacies, by Thomas Sowell
Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, by Thomas Sowell
Knowledge and Decisions, by Thomas Sowell
On Classical Economics, by Thomas Sowell
The Conflict of Visions, by Thomas Sowell
Applied Economics, by Thomas Sowell
The Housing Boom and Bust, by Thomas Sowell
Inside American Education, by Thomas Sowell
Race and Economics, by Walter E. Williams
Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman
A Monetary History of the United States, by Milton Friedman
Money Mischief, by Milton Friedman
A Theory of the Consumption Function, by Milton Friedman
Price Theory, by Milton Friedman
Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt
The Failure of New Economics, by Henry Hazlitt
The Fatal Conceit, by F. A. Hayek
Individualism and Economic Order, by F. A. Hayek
The Pure Theory of Capital, by F. A. Hayek
Business Cycles, Parts I, II, and III, by F. A. Hayek
Prices and Production, by F. A. Hayek
Contra Keynes and Cambridge, by F. A. Hayek
The Theory of Money and Credit, by Ludwig Von Mises
Socialism, by Ludwig Von Mises
The Causes of the Economic Crisis, by Ludwig Von Mises
Money, Method, and the Market Process, by Ludwig Von Mises
International Economics, Theory and Policy, by Paul Krugman
Macroeconomics, by Paul Krugman
Microeconomics, by Paul Krugman
The Age of Diminished Expectations, by Paul Krugman
Geography and Trade, by Paul Krugman
Principles of Microeconomics, by Joseph Stiglitz
Lectures on Public Economics, by Joseph Stiglitz and Anthony Atkinson
Captal in The Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty
The Law, by Frederic Bastiat
An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, by David Gordon
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, by John Maynard Keynes
A Treatise on Money, by John Maynard Keynes
Definitions in Political Economy, by Thomas Malthus
On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, by David Ricardo
Proposals for an Economical and Secure Currency, by David Ricardo
History of Economic Theory, by Jean-Baptiste Say
That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen, by Frederic Bastiat
IV. Psychology
Maps of Meaning, by Jordan Peterson
The Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud
Modern Man in Search of a Soul, by Carl Jung
Answer to Job, by Carl Jung
Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, by Carl Jung
Aion, by Carl Jung
Psychology: East and West, Carl Jung
A Way of Being, by Carl Rogers
On Becoming a Person, by Carl Rogers
Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood, by Jean Piaget
The Moral Judgment of the Child, by Jean Piaget
The Discovery of the Unconscious, Henri Ellenberger
The Origins and History of Consciousness, by Erich Neumann
The Great Mother, by Erich Neumann
The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker
Existence: A new dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology, by May, R., Angel, E., & Ellenberger, H
The Neuropsychology of Anxiety, by Jeffrey Gray and Neil McNaughton
Affective Neuroscience, by Jaak Panksepp
The Emotional Brain, by Joseph LeDoux
Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan, by Larry Swanson
An Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, by JJ Gibson
The New Executive Brain, by Elkhonon Goldberg