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Title	Author	Description
The Age of Conversation Age of Conversation	Benedetta Craveri Craveri	An award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them. Contributors: Teresa Waugh
American Humor: A Study of the National Character American Humor	Constance Rourke Rourke	Constance Rourke's pioneering "study of the national character" examines such legendary figures as the Yankee, the backwoodsman, and the minstrel singer to show how the popular comic imagination contributed to America's changing self-awareness. Contributors: Greil Marcus
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Autobiography of an Unknown Indian	Nirad C. Chaudhuri Chaudhuri	The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is an astonishing work of self-discovery and the revelation of a peerless and provocative sensibility. Contributors: Ian Jack
The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved Bog People	P.V. Glob Glob	Conceived as a kind of a detective story, this classic of archaeological history—out of print for over thirty years—is a fascinating account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the Iron Age in Europe. Contributors: Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul T. Barber , Rupert Bruce-Mitford
Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists Born Under Saturn	Margot and Rudolf Wittkower Wittkower	A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a "delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution." Contributors: Joseph Connors
Classic Crimes Classic Crimes	William Roughead Roughead	Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland. Contributors: Luc Sante
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership Crisis of the Negro Intellectual	Harold W. Cruse Cruse	A landmark work of African-American thought written in a period of immense social ferment. Contributors: Stanley Crouch
Defeat: Napoleon's Russian Campaign Defeat	Philippe-Paul de Ségur Segur	Ségur's eye-witness account of what remains one of the greatest military disasters of all time is a masterpiece of military history and was an essential source for Tolstoy's War and Peace. It is also a reminder of the risks of imperial hubris. Contributors: Mark Danner , J. David Townsend
India: A Mosaic India: A Mosaic	Robert B. Silvers, Barbara Epstein Roy	Nine essays on India, all originally published in The New York Review of Books. Contributors: Arundhati Roy
The Jeffersonian Transformation: Passages from the "History" Jeffersonian Transformation	Henry Adams Adams	The ideal introduction and companion to Adams's "massive and magisterial" history of the administrations of Jefferson and Madison, presenting an indelible picture of America's startling rise to world power. Contributors: Garry Wills