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History buffs book recommendation...
Posted on 8/20/15 at 7:53 pm
Posted on 8/20/15 at 7:53 pm
I'm trying to read a somewhat comprehensive history of the U.S. in chronological order. Just finished a series of books about the Indians Wars, Manifest Destiny, Opening of the Frontier etc... that has taken me up to about 1890.
Is there any noteworthy event between that and WWI aside from just the industrialization of America? Any good books about U.S. history from that time period, maybe Teddy Roosevelt related?
Anybody ever read "The War Lovers"?
Is there any noteworthy event between that and WWI aside from just the industrialization of America? Any good books about U.S. history from that time period, maybe Teddy Roosevelt related?
Anybody ever read "The War Lovers"?
This post was edited on 8/20/15 at 7:55 pm
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Posted on 8/20/15 at 7:56 pm to RandySavage
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Is there any noteworthy event between that and WWI aside from just the industrialization of America?
Spanish American War
Posted on 8/20/15 at 8:01 pm to Brosef Stalin
Yea I think that's the main focus of "The War Lovers" which is what I'm leaning toward right now.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 8:05 pm to RandySavage
Big events that I can think of
Wounded Knee (you might've already covered that)
Spanish-Americna War
And I believe there was a pretty bad economic depression in that decade, but you might get that with the industrialization.
Wounded Knee (you might've already covered that)
Spanish-Americna War
And I believe there was a pretty bad economic depression in that decade, but you might get that with the industrialization.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 8:26 pm to RandySavage
The Gilded Age
Jim Crow
The Rise of Lynching in the Deep South
Plessy v Ferguson
Panic of 1893
Women's Suffrage
Populism
William Jennings Brian's "Cross of Gold"
Wounded Knee
Kitty Hawk
Baseball
The Automobile
Photography
Birth of a Nation
Richard Hofstadter's The Age of Reform is an absolute classic.
Jim Crow
The Rise of Lynching in the Deep South
Plessy v Ferguson
Panic of 1893
Women's Suffrage
Populism
William Jennings Brian's "Cross of Gold"
Wounded Knee
Kitty Hawk
Baseball
The Automobile
Photography
Birth of a Nation
Richard Hofstadter's The Age of Reform is an absolute classic.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 8:27 pm to RandySavage
Conceived in Liberty by Murray Rothbard
Posted on 8/20/15 at 8:27 pm to theGarnetWay
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And I believe there was a pretty bad economic depression in that decade
There was. That crash was called the Great Depression until the one in 1929 took over that title.
The Populist rebellion in the 1890s was a big event too. You might also look for some Southern-specific reading on the subject. In Louisiana, the Populists teamed up with the Republicans in 1896. That had a lot of long-tern implications. Governor Foster stole the election and then declared war on black people and poor people, which created the frustration that exploded a few decades later in the form of Longism.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 8:29 pm to Bestbank Tiger
Another great book is "Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900" by William Ivy Hair.
"Vote right, or we'll count it right!"
quote:
Governor Foster stole the election
"Vote right, or we'll count it right!"
This post was edited on 8/20/15 at 8:31 pm
Posted on 8/20/15 at 8:32 pm to LuckySo-n-So
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
Posted on 8/20/15 at 8:42 pm to geauxtigers87
I'm currently reading T. Harry Williams biography of Huey P. Long.
Found a nice hardcover of the book a couple weeks ago.
I regret that I barely missed getting to take one of his classes when I was at LSU.
LC
Found a nice hardcover of the book a couple weeks ago.
I regret that I barely missed getting to take one of his classes when I was at LSU.
LC
Posted on 8/20/15 at 8:44 pm to RandySavage
They are historical fiction and I don't really like Vidal's politics, but Gore Vidal's Empire which covers 1898 to 1907 and Hollywood which covers 1917 to 1923 are fun and explore some interesting characters and events.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 8:53 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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the Populists teamed up with the Republicans in 1896
This sounds like wishful academic thought. Foster became governor because of the corruption of the lottery.
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Governor Foster stole the election and then declared war on black people and poor people,
Blacks had been "disenfranchised" well prior to this. It was codified in the State Constitution, but this was in order to unite the Democratic Party and stop the corruption of buying Negro and Italian votes.
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the frustration that exploded a few decades later in the form of Longism
the depression and the personality of Long did this.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 9:13 pm to RandySavage
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Any good books about U.S. history from that time period, maybe Teddy Roosevelt related?
Obviously, the Spanish American War. David Trask's "The War with Spain in 1898", or Roosevelt's "The Rough Riders".
Perhaps Upton's Sinclair's "The Jungle" - the historical significance of the book cannot be understated.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 9:32 pm to RandySavage
Rising Tide by John Barry... Must read
Posted on 8/20/15 at 10:04 pm to RandySavage
Two great books I recommend.
COOLIDGE by Amity Shales.
He became one of my favorite Presidents after reading this book.
The Bully Pulpit - Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and The Golden Age of Journalism
By Doris Kearns Goodwin
This book shows how what we are seeing today in terms of a huge ideological divide is "nothing new under the sun." Astonishing similarities in fact.
I am currently reading Thomas Jefferson- The Art of Statecraft. The years from 1789 to 1808 or so were some of the most politically turbulent in our history. Authoritarian Federalists like Adams, Jay, and Marshall working to make us a monarchy vs. Jefferson, Madison and Monroe fighting to insure we remained a Republic. Adams stacking and growing the Federal courts with Federalists judges on his way out the door after he had already signed the Alien and Sedition Act. Write, say or publish something against the Federalist and off to jail you go! Both camps bitching about a biased media.
We have been at this a long time guys.
COOLIDGE by Amity Shales.
He became one of my favorite Presidents after reading this book.
The Bully Pulpit - Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and The Golden Age of Journalism
By Doris Kearns Goodwin
This book shows how what we are seeing today in terms of a huge ideological divide is "nothing new under the sun." Astonishing similarities in fact.
I am currently reading Thomas Jefferson- The Art of Statecraft. The years from 1789 to 1808 or so were some of the most politically turbulent in our history. Authoritarian Federalists like Adams, Jay, and Marshall working to make us a monarchy vs. Jefferson, Madison and Monroe fighting to insure we remained a Republic. Adams stacking and growing the Federal courts with Federalists judges on his way out the door after he had already signed the Alien and Sedition Act. Write, say or publish something against the Federalist and off to jail you go! Both camps bitching about a biased media.
We have been at this a long time guys.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 10:12 pm to Dick Leverage
Have you read Blood And Thunder by Hampton Sides?
Subtitled - The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of The American West.
Great book
As is A Terrible Glory by James Donovan
Subtitle - Custer and The Little Bighorn. The Last Great Battle of the American West
Subtitled - The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of The American West.
Great book
As is A Terrible Glory by James Donovan
Subtitle - Custer and The Little Bighorn. The Last Great Battle of the American West
Posted on 8/20/15 at 10:16 pm to RandySavage
If you win the war, you write the book. Good luck finding the true story from the losers.
Posted on 8/21/15 at 6:37 am to OleWar
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This sounds like wishful academic thought.
They teamed up with Rs in the South and Ds in the North.
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the depression and the personality of Long did this.
Huey P. was elected the year before the Depression began. Most people in Louisiana didn't notice the stock market crash.
The Great Flood of 1927 had more to do with it, but the Bourbons were corrupt dictators. Long just beat them at their own game.
Posted on 8/21/15 at 7:10 am to Dick Leverage
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Have you read Blood And Thunder by Hampton Sides?
I did just finish that a few weeks ago.
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As is A Terrible Glory by James Donovan
I went looking for that book but then found the "The Last Stand" by Nathaniel Philbrick used for like $4.00 so I went with that instead.
Posted on 8/21/15 at 8:03 am to RandySavage
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