William Palmer

Southern Man

Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War

By T J Stiles

John Bayley

Doing the Charleston

A Turn in the South

By V S Naipaul

Tristan Quinn

Prophet And Loss

American Massacre: The Tragedy At Mountain Meadows, September 11, 1857

By Sally Denton

Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

By Jon Krakauer

Dominic Sandbrook

American Idol

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

Dominic Sandbrook

King Dubya

The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy

By Frank Prochaska

In Defence of America

By Bronwen Maddox

Paul Johnson

Civil Warrior

Robert E Lee: Icon for a Nation

By Brian Holden Reid

Josh Glancy

The Sin that Wouldn’t Die

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

By Douglas A Blackmon