Candace Millard’s DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC; after the assassination attempt on President James Garfield, his physician botches the recovery.

Frederick Lewis Allen’s ONLY YESTERDAY; 1920s America; stories about Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and other forgotten events.

John Howard Griffin’s BLACK LIKE ME; a white journalist darkens his skin, temporarily, to experience life in the segregated South.

Tracy Kidder’s OLD FRIENDS; two men find end-of-life companionship in a California nursing home; non-fiction.