Books

Letters to a Young Journalist, by Samuel G. Freedman

The Oxford Book of American Poetry, edited by David Lehman

The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times, by Anthony DePalma

Buried by The Times:The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper, by Laurel Leff

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, by Ira Katznelson

If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, by Gregory Rabassa ’54GSAS

Melville: His World and Work, by Andrew Delbanco

Nicholas Murray Butler served as Columbia’s president for 44 years and created the University in his own image. But there was another job he wanted

102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, by Jim Dwyer ’80JRN and Kevin Flynn ’79JRN

New York, Empire City 1920–1945, by David Stravitz with Christopher Gray ’75GS

The Invention of Painting in America, by David Rosand ’59CC, ’65GSAS

High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Max Frankel ’52CC, ’53GSAS