America Reconsidered: Nonfiction

Bhu Srinivasan’s Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism is a thrilling alternative history of modern America that reframes events, trends, and people we thought we knew through the prism of the value that this nation holds dearest: capitalism. Jack Davis’s The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea colorfully reinstates the Gulf region within the American narrative—from the age of Spanish conquistadors to the present day—into a disastrous pattern of exploitation.