Hope Against Hope
1970 · 442 pages
Osip Mandelstam wrote sixteen lines mocking Stalin and died in a camp for them. His widow Nadezhda memorized the poems to keep them alive, then set down exactly how the fear worked.
★ 7.1
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
An Indian History of the American West
1970 · 487 pages
Thirty years of broken treaties, forced marches, and massacres, told from inside the Cheyenne, Navajo, Apache, and Lakota camps. Dee Brown ended the frontier myth for a generation of American readers.
★ 6.8
The Conquest of the Incas
1970 · 672 pages
Fewer than two hundred Spaniards seized the Inca emperor at Cajamarca in 1532, and Hemming traces the forty years of rebellion and reprisal that followed, giving Andean witnesses equal weight with Spanish ones.
★ 5.9
Hard Times
An Oral History of the Great Depression
1970 · 462 pages
Evicted tenants, migrant pickers, stockbrokers, and a man who ran for president tell Terkel what the Depression did to them. What comes through hardest is how many took the collapse as personal failure.
★ 5.7
The Fortress
1970 · 406 pages
Ahmet Shabo returns from an Ottoman war to a Sarajevo where his family has died of plague and one honest sentence ruins a man. The marriage he makes there is his only refuge.
★ 5.5
Ball Four
The Final Pitch
1970 · 540 pages
A knuckleballer hanging on with an expansion team, Bouton kept a diary of the 1969 season and put in the amphetamines, the womanizing, and Mantle drunk. Baseball's commissioner demanded he call it fiction.
★ 5.5
84, Charing Cross Road
1970 · 112 pages
Twenty years of letters between a broke New York writer hunting English classics and the London bookseller who found them. She mailed meat parcels through rationing and never crossed the ocean in time.
★ 4.7