Cornelia Read: five favorite non-fiction books

From Cornelia Read's Amazon profile page:A true list of my favorite books would crash the server. Here are five non-fiction titles I always keep on my desk (okay, it's really more of a cupboard, but as a piece of furniture it still serves me well in a desk-like way):Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir by Geoffrey O'BrienOld Money: The Mythology of Wealth in America by