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Books Read: History
“The Good War”
An Oral History Of World War II
Studs Terkel1984
1066
The Year of the Conquest
David Howarth1977
A History of Knowledge
The Pivotal Events, People and Achievements of World History
Charles Van Doren1991
A People’s History of the United States
Howard Zinn1992
American Nations
A History of the 11 Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Colin Woodard2011
Citizen Tom Paine
Howard Fast1943
Confederates in the Attic
Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz1998
Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940
How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
David E. Kyvig2002
Dean Acheson
The Cold War Years, 1953-1971
Douglas Brinkley1992
Eisenhower
The White House Years
Jim Newton2011
Flight of the Eagle
The Grand Strategies that Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership
Conrad Black2013
Hail, Hail, Euphoria
The Marx Brothers in Duck Soup
Roy Blount, Jr.2010
Hard Times
An Oral History of the Great Depression
Studs Terkel1970
In Review
Pictures I've Kept
Dwight D. Eisenhower1969
In The Wake of the Plague
The Black Death & the World it Made
Norman Cantor2001
Kissinger 1973
The Crucial Year
Alistair Horne2009
Life In Year One
What The World Was Like In First-Century Palestine
Scott Korb2010
Midnight Rising
John Brown & the Raid that Sparked the Civil War
Tony Horwitz2011
Mr. Citizen
Harry S Truman1960
Nixonland
The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Rick Perlstein2008
O Albany!
William Kennedy1983
Off The Record With FDR
The War Years 1942-1945
William D. Hassett1958
Polk
The Man who Transformed the Presidency and America
Walter K. Borneman2008
President Nixon
Alone In The White House
Richard Reeves2001
Rome At War
AD 293 - 696
Michael Whitby2002
Six Months In 1945
FDR, Stalin, Churchill & Truman - from World War to Cold War
Michael Dobbs2012
Stars In Their Courses
The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863
Shelby Foote1963
Street Without Joy
The French Debacle In Indochina
Bernard B. Fall1964
The American Civil War
A Military History
John Keegan2009