Category: History

January 9, 2011

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson **** (of 4)

Immediately following the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation most African Americans in the south were subject to what we today would call a campaign...

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November 23, 2010

The Tenth Parallel by Eliza Griswold ** (of 4)

Griswold travels the around the globe hanging out approximately 10 degrees north of the equator. In Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines it’s...

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October 18, 2010

City of Thieves by David Benioff **** (of 4)

Lev Benioff, a 15-year-old Russian, Jewish kid and Kolya, a deserter from the Russian Army with an overactive libido and terrible constipation, find themselves trapped...

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October 6, 2010

Exodus by Leon Uris ** (of 4)

Still singed by Holocaust crematoria, Jewish rebels fight to throw off the yoke of British imperialism in Palestine. This is a book that launched a...

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September 8, 2010

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War by Neal Sheehan ** (of 4)

Bennie Schriever invents and promotes Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles to assure the mutual destruction of the Soviet Union (and the world) in the event that...

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July 26, 2010

97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman ** (of 4)

It’s an interesting thesis. Jane Ziegelman, a food historian working at the Tenement Museum traces the food history of five immigrant families that settled on...

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July 14, 2010

Nineteen forty-eight by Benny Morris

A revisionist history of the first Arab-Israeli War. In Pelletier Library.

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July 14, 2010

Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears

According to the Times, Jay Winik, “Sears’s reconstruction is “The Civil War equivalent of a modern spy satellite photograph. He hovers above the action, giving...

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July 14, 2010

Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes *** (of 4)

This is such an accurate rendtion of 1960s Harlem I could smell the trash in the streets, sense the despair, hear the sirens, and feel...

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June 29, 2010

Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb **** (of 4)

Adolph Eichmann, architect, planner, and executor of “The Final Solution” for the Jews escaped to Argentina at the end of the World War II. It...

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