Books like Nothing and amen by Oriana Fallaci

A nonfiction novel chronicling the adventures of a group of friends on their cross-country journey of discovery, featuring characters like Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty as real-life friends Neal Casady.

James Baldwin’s 1963 essay collection, written as two letters for the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, confronts America’s racial injustices and urges both black and white citizens to confront the legacy of racism.

Samuel P. Huntington’s seminal work explores how rising international tensions after the Cold War may be driven by clash among cultural civilizations, offering a detailed theoretical framework beyond his 1993 Foreign Affairs article.

Famous Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, famous for her interviews with major leaders such as the Ayatollah Khomeini, forcefully delineates her convictions about numerous subjects in this book; especially Islam. This is a sequel to one of her previous books, The Rage and the Pride, which she wrote two weeks after the 9/11 attacks.

Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War, offering vivid testimonies from 135 men and women across the entire history of the conflict, from its origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975.

An intimate account of Tobias Wolff's tour of Vietnam as an officer in the U.S. Army, revealing the toll of surviving the war and the search for meaning in a harsh new reality.

Short stories, excerpts from novels, and journalistic accounts.

The Gulf War and its aftermath have testified once again to the significance placed on the meanings and images of Vietnam by US media and culture. Almost two decades after the end of hostilities, the Vietnam War remains a dominant moral, political and military touchstone in American cultural consciousness. Vietnam War Stories provides a comprehensive critical framework for understanding the Vietnam experience, Vietnam narratives and modern war literature. The narratives examined - personal accounts as well as novels - portray a soldier's and a country's journey from pre-war innocence, through battlefield experience and consideration, to a difficult post-war adjustment. Tobey Herzog places these narratives within the context of important cultural and literary themes, including inherent ironies of war, the "John Wayne syndrome" of pre-war innocence, and the "heavy Heart-of-Darkness trip" of the conflict itself.

A revolutionary text by Frantz Fanon, providing insight into the fight for freedom and national culture in decolonization era.