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re: Historical nonfictions you are reading
Posted on 3/17/19 at 11:41 pm to ClampClampington
Posted on 3/17/19 at 11:41 pm to ClampClampington
1920 The Year of the Six Presidents: David Pietrusza - Amazon.com
I just read this recently, and it's become on of my all time favorite history books. Not only is the wheeling and dealing at the nominating conventions fascinating, but the book is often laugh out loud funny -- surely a rare quality in history books, at least in my experience
The same author has also written books on 1932 and 1948, which I p!an to read soon.
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The presidential election of 1920 was among history's most dramatic. Six once-and-future presidents-Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt-jockeyed for the White House. With voters choosing between Wilson's League of Nations and Harding's front-porch isolationism, the 1920 election shaped modern America. Women won the vote. Republicans outspent Democrats by 4 to 1, as voters witnessed the first extensive newsreel coverage, modern campaign advertising, and results broadcast on radio. America had become an urban nation: Automobiles, mass production, chain stores, and easy credit transformed the economy. 1920 paints a vivid portrait of America, beset by the Red Scare, jailed dissidents, Prohibition, smoke-filled rooms, bomb-throwing terrorists, and the Klan, gingerly crossing modernity's threshold.
I just read this recently, and it's become on of my all time favorite history books. Not only is the wheeling and dealing at the nominating conventions fascinating, but the book is often laugh out loud funny -- surely a rare quality in history books, at least in my experience
The same author has also written books on 1932 and 1948, which I p!an to read soon.
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Posted on 3/18/19 at 11:59 am to ClampClampington
I just started reading The Devil and The White City by Erik Larson. Heard about it on Last Podcast on the Left and on this very Book Board so really looking forward to it!
Posted on 3/18/19 at 1:48 pm to ClampClampington
Currently, July 1914
Next up: The Guns of August
Next up: The Guns of August
Posted on 3/18/19 at 11:47 pm to ClampClampington
Posted on 3/18/19 at 11:55 pm to ClampClampington
Posted on 3/19/19 at 10:53 am to biglego
Just finished The German Aces Speak
Posted on 3/21/19 at 6:11 am to FightinTigersDammit
The Crusades
By Zoe Oldenbourg
By Zoe Oldenbourg
Posted on 3/21/19 at 9:50 am to marcus3000
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I just started reading The Devil and The White City by Erik Larson. Heard about it on Last Podcast on the Left and on this very Book Board so really looking forward to it!
I've heard great things.
I just finished Larson's In the Garden of Beasts. It's about the American ambassador and his family in Nazi Germany at the time the Nazis are really starting to consolidate power. Very good read, hope to read again sometime down the line.
Recently finished this, it's about how the Loyalist NY Governor and others had a plot to undermine and possibly assassinate George Washington before the battle of New York City. Not a bad read.
Posted on 3/21/19 at 12:21 pm to theGarnetWay
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In the Garden of Beasts.
Very good story
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The Devil and The White City
Spellbinding. Will creep you out ala Silence of the Lambs
Also, Isaac's Storm and Dead Wake by Larson are outstanding. He is a master storyteller.
Posted on 3/21/19 at 2:15 pm to conservativewifeymom
Cokie is very bright and knowledgeble. I'd take a gander at her work.
Posted on 3/21/19 at 7:45 pm to Rockbrc
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The Crusades By Zoe Oldenbourg
Read that one years ago. Huge book. My ex-gf said it took longer for me to read it than it took to fight the Crusades.
Posted on 3/21/19 at 7:56 pm to Rockbrc
I’ll be starting this one soon. Anyone read it?
Posted on 3/23/19 at 10:08 am to Ace Midnight
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Next up: The Guns of August
I'm half way through and it is excellent.
Posted on 3/23/19 at 4:10 pm to ClampClampington
Currently listening to Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. Holy shite.
Posted on 3/26/19 at 5:53 pm to Jim Rockford
Just posted in another thread but The Spy and the traitor is really good so far. About a cold war spy. Or really, THE cold ear spy.
Posted on 3/26/19 at 9:10 pm to marcus3000
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Erik Larson
He’s the best. Read everything he’s written. Isaac’s Storm and In the Garden of Beasts are fantastic as well.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 9:21 pm to ClampClampington
This one may not be for everyone because it’s more of a medical history book, but The Emperor of All Maladies is worth a shot. It is a history of cancer from a medical and societal prospective. No major medical background needed since it’s written more as a history than an oncology text.
Command and Control. This one’s about nukes and the Cold War nuclear arms race. Quick synopsis: It’s a miracle we are all still alive.
Command and Control. This one’s about nukes and the Cold War nuclear arms race. Quick synopsis: It’s a miracle we are all still alive.
Posted on 4/11/19 at 3:27 am to ClampClampington
Lawrence N. Powell-The Accidental City:Improvising New Orleans
The Who, what, where, and when of New Orleans history.
A fabulous read. I'm born and raised in the Crescent City don't get easily excited about these sorts of books. This one is well written and engaging.
Reading again a favorite, Ladislas Faragos-Patton: Ordeal And Triumph. The book the movie Patton was based on. An amazing larger than life character on a larger than life stage in a life and death struggle. Exceptionally well researched and written.
The Who, what, where, and when of New Orleans history.
A fabulous read. I'm born and raised in the Crescent City don't get easily excited about these sorts of books. This one is well written and engaging.
Reading again a favorite, Ladislas Faragos-Patton: Ordeal And Triumph. The book the movie Patton was based on. An amazing larger than life character on a larger than life stage in a life and death struggle. Exceptionally well researched and written.
Posted on 4/11/19 at 7:05 pm to Mr. Misanthrope
Patton: A Genius For War by Carlo D'Este is, IMO the definitive. Loaned it to a former ULM professor recently, and she said the word for this book is "comprehensive".
Read Faragos, and it's very good, also.
Read Faragos, and it's very good, also.
Posted on 4/12/19 at 7:55 am to ClampClampington
I’m listening to The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, the first book in a three volume biography on the life of Teddy Roosevelt. He led an amazing life and I highly recommend this.
The next two books in the series are Theodore Rex and Colonel Roosevelt.
The next two books in the series are Theodore Rex and Colonel Roosevelt.
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