Category: History

June 18, 2010

A Peace to end all Peace by David Fromkin *** (of 4)

An unbelievably informative book about the transformation of the Ottoman Empire through World War I into the colonial prizes carved up by Western Europe into...

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June 18, 2010

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick *** (of 4)

I listened to half the book on CD, read another quarter, and didn’t have time to finish Philbrick’s account of the interaction between the Pilgrims...

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June 18, 2010

Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction by Martin Gilbert *** (of 4)

A fluky book by on the of the world’s greatest Holocaust historians. Gilbert gathers dozens of newly uncovered personal histories of November 10, 1938 when...

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June 18, 2010

A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson *** (of 4)

Johnson is an anti-Semitic summofabitch. He blames the victim at times. He seems incredulous that the Jews didn’t recognize Christ as part of the Holy...

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June 17, 2010

Goodbye Darkness by William Manchester *** (of 4)

One of Manchester’s best. A memoir about his role in WWII marines in Pacific theater.

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June 17, 2010

1491 by Charles C. Mann *** (of 4)

Mann skewers nearly every myth I learned in K- College about Native Americans. They didn’t walk across the Bering Strait to settle the Americas. They’ve...

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June 17, 2010

Fifty Miles from Tomorrow by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley ** (of 4)

The life story of a native Inupiaq from the early 40s when native Alaskans were virtually untouched by Westerners, except missionaries, through statehood and the...

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June 17, 2010

Confederates in the Attic: America’s Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz *** (of 4)

A nice Jewish boy from the D.C. suburbs treks across the south meeting Civil War re-enactors, Daughters of the Confederate States of America, poor-whites with...

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June 17, 2010