Books by Nick Bunker and Complete Book Reviews
Nick Bunker, Author . Knopf $30 (489p) ISBN 978-0-307-26682-8
This superb book secures for the Pilgrims their iconic perch among the earliest founders of colonial America. Bunker, a British investment banker turned journalist, has succeeded in writing a major history, unprecedented in its sweep, of the...
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Nick Bunker. Knopf, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-307-59484-6
Covering the three years leading up to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775, journalist Bunker (Making Haste from Babylon) wisely jettisons a hero/villain dichotomy in favor of a nuanced global analysis of Britain’s failure to hold onto its
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Nick Bunker. Knopf, $30 (464p) ISBN 978-1-101-87441-7
Bunker, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America, again provides an unusual look at American history with this accessible and riveting account of the ancestry and early life of Ben Franklin. Bunker’s...
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Nick Bunker. Basic, $35 (496p) ISBN 978-1-541-67554-4
Historian Bunker (An Empire on the Edge) asserts, in this innovative account of the Truman presidency, that September 1949 to June 1950 was a period of immense upheaval and a turning point in American history. In foreign affairs, Bunker cites such...
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