books about: twentieth

books about: twentieth

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Twentieth

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

Tony Judt

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

Very Good
This is a collection of essays from the historian most famous for " Postwar" a history of Europe from 1945 to the present. Judt's earlier book was very good and explained the establishment of the European welfare state as a reaction to the Second World War. Politicians ...

The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century

Edward Dolnick

Harper, 2008

Short course in psychology, art and forgery
Not having read Edward Dolnick's previous book, "The Rescue Artist", I did not come to read "The Forger's Spell" with primed expectations. Mr. Dolnick succeeds in what many writers on this subject fail to do by showing and not telling the finer points of his subject. ...

The River Why, Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

David James Duncan

Sierra Club Books, 2002

Wise Like A Fish
Lovers of fishing, or Oregon, or life, or the search for life's meaning should love this book. So should readers interested in thoughtful, creative and honest writing; or of clever, insightful and profound character development. Gus Orviston is an enduring main ...

The World in Depression, 1929-1939, Revised and Enlarged edition (History of the World Economy in the ...

Charles P. Kindleberger

University of California Press, 1986

Benchmark Study of the Causes of the Great Depression
This book is outstanding at describing the economics of the Great Depression. In his time, Kindleberger was regarded by many as the highest authority on the economics of the Great Depression. He also was a regular economist of the highest order. (Check out his other ...

Norton Anthology of Western Music: Volume 2: Classic to Twentieth Century

W. W. Norton, 2005

Christmas Present
This was a Christmas present for my wife. She sings and arranges music. I can only tell you that she is ecstatic about the book, and is excited at the prospect of going on line for the streaming music that comes with.

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

Ira Katznelson

W. W. Norton, 2006

LBJ was the one who really freed the slaves
Just finished an outstanding book by Ira Katznelson on the untold history of racial inequality in America. Those who oppose affirmative action should get it and see who has really benefitted from The New Deal, the Fair Deal, Social Security and the GI Bill after WWII. ...

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century ...

W. W. Norton, 2005

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2
This book was a purchase for an English class; however, it contains some awesome poetry.

Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Wallace Stegner

Penguin Classics, 2000

"For lack of a keystone...
...the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life." Stegner summation of his novel's themes contains this essential sentence. Two lines, leaning against each other, without the uniting keystone, form their own angle of repose, a term derived from geology ...

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Alex Ross

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

intellectually exciting
This is an exhilirating intellectual tour de force. Ross is the best "describer" of music I've ever read. Music resists being put into words -- they are two very different media. But Ross has the ability to do this -- his descriptions of works I am familiar with is ...

Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century

Jeffry A. Frieden

W. W. Norton, 2007

Globalization 2.0
Jeffrey Frieden, a Harvard professor specializing in international trade and finance, has written a masterly and comprehensive history of capitalism from 1870 to the present. His history of globalization reminds us that it is not a recent develpment and that its ...

A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the ...

John Burrow

Knopf, 2008

A truly monumental work
I have always been a history nut, reading history after history throughout my life. And one cannot read these histories without realizing that there is a difference between the way the historians viewed their subjects, and how they went about recording history. In this ...

Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century

Mark Mazower

Vintage, 2000

Read it at least twice
I agree with an earlier reviewer that this is the best history of 20th Century Europe ever. Keen insights and fresh ideas leap off every page. But it needs to be repeated: the Dark Continent is not an introduction to the subject. Unless you have a good knowledge of ...

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: and Other Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Max Weber

Penguin Classics, 2002

the fear of being not preferred later on ...
Max Weber (1864-1920) had noticed that Protestants appeared excessively under the numbers of people who economically were successful. The Catholicism seemed to make it easier (due to an integrated sin pardon mechanics) to enjoy life in between times. The Mediterranean ...

Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Fifth Edition, Volume 2: Classic to Twentieth Century (6 CDs)

W. W. Norton, 2005

Excellent
Excellent product..one of the standard anthologies available for studying Music History. One caveat, if you're using Hanning's Concise Grout as a companion text, be sure to match the correct edition of the anthology + recordings to the correct edition of the text.

Soldier of Rome: The Legionary: A novel of the Twentieth Legion during the campaigns of Germanicus Caesar

James Mace

iUniverse, Inc., 2006

Gritty, down in the trenches realism
Most contemporary Roman historical fiction deals with the famous (and sometimes infamous) figures at the top of the hierarchy of ancient Rome: Caesar, Cicero, Augustus, etc.... In " Soldier of Rome " Mr. Mace gives us a realistic glimpse into what it must have been ...