Edward Dolnick is the author of Down the Great Unknown, The Rescue Artist, Madness on the Couch, and The Forger's Spell.A former chief science writer at the Boston Globe, he has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, and many other publications.
Invited by Powells.com to "[r]ecommend five or more books on a single subject of personal interest or expertise," he came up with:
Five Nonfiction Books with Brilliant Opening Chapters:Read the interview from which this list is drawn.The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon B. Johnson, Vol. 1 by Robert A. Caro
Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
Maximum City by Suketu Mehta
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory by William Manchester
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
--Marshal Zeringue
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