This month, the Vere Harmsworth Library’s book display is becoming an advent calendar, counting up the days of December. A new book will be added each day until we close for Christmas at 5pm on 23rd December.

The book display on 1st and 12th December.

The book display can be found on the ground floor at the back left, by the comfy chairs.

List of titles on display (updated throughout December):

1. One drop : shifting the lens on race (Yaba Blay, Noelle Théard)
2. Breaking the two-party doom loop : the case for multiparty democracy in America (Lee Drutman)
3. The three-cornered war : the Union, the Confederacy, and native peoples in the fight for the West (Megan Kate Nelson)
4. Four hats in the ring : the 1912 election and the birth of modern American politics (Lewis L. Gould)
5. The US Constitution in five minutes (Joseph L. Smith and David Klein, eds)
6. Six crises (Richard M. Nixon)
7. Protest on trial : the Seattle 7 conspiracy (Kit Bakke)
8. Eight ways to run the country : a new and revealing look at left and right (Brian Patrick Mitchell)
9. Nine for nine : the Pennsylvania mine rescue miracle (Andrew Morton)
10. A history of America in ten strikes (Erik Loomis)
11. Benjamin Banneker and us : eleven generations of an American family (Rachel Jamison Webster)
12. City of scoundrels : the twelve days of disaster that gave birth to modern Chicago (Gary Krist)
13. The $13 trillion question : how America manages its debt (David Wessel, ed.)
14. Decisions at Fredericksburg : the fourteen critical decisions that defined the battle (Chris Mackowski)
15. Beyond $15 : immigrant workers, faith activists, and the revival of the labor movement (Jonathan Rosenblum)
16. Sixteen American presidents (David K. E. Bruce)
17. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (Michael O’Leary)
18. Eighteen acres under glass (Robert Keith Gray)
19. Decisions at Gettysburg : the nineteen critical decisions that defined the campaign (Chris Mackowski, maps by Edward Alexander)
20. Twenty minutes in Manhattan (Michael Sorkin)
21. Twenty-one Americans : being profiles of some people famous in our time (Niven Busch, Jr.; together with silly pictures of them drawn by De Miskey)
22. The Nixon presidency : twenty-two intimate perspectives of Richard M. Nixon (Kenneth W. Thompson)
23. Undergraduates : a study of morale in twenty-three American colleges and universities (Richard Henry Edwards)
24. Daytona 24 Hours : the definitive history of America’s great endurance race (J. J. O’Malley)

If you have any questions about resources in the Vere Harmsworth Library, please email vhl@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.