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Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self
Claire Tomalin
Amazon Remainders Account, 2002
The Amazing Rise of a Hard Working Rump Smoocher
+ Wonderful book
+ Cracking good read
+ Pepys is the best!
+ A Truly fascinating Man
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Boorstin Trilogy)
Daniel J. Boorstin
Phoenix Pr, 2001
Amazing book from prehistory to circa 1900
+ an excellent, eye-opening history of the human knowledge
+ Wisdom always comes at a price
+ An Old Fashioned Idea..
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The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
David Gilmour, 2003
Brilliant study of a brilliant man
+ Kipling Re-considered
+ Overlooked Today, But a Towering Figure in His Time
+ Examines not only his writing, but his world
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Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Adrian Goldsworthy
Yale University Press, 2008
A Superior Telling
+ An Interesting Read
+ Very Impressive
+ Good, informative but why, oh why?!
+ Entertaining
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Vintage)
William Dalrymple
Vintage, 2008
Masterful, Commanding, Brilliant History
+ Superb portrait of Mughal Delhi and its destruction in 1857
+ Commendable Research
+ The Last Mughul: the author's style is refreshing in some aspects.
+ Mutiny and Revenge
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
Howard Zinn
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005
No sugar coated, political correctness here!
+ A People's History of the United States
+ Wow!
+ Peoples History of the United States
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German Generals Talk
Basil H. Liddell Hart
Harper Perennial, 1971
Belongs in Your WWII History Library
+ The Wehrmacht Speaks
+ Inside the other side
+ Unique perspective
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States)
James M. McPherson
Oxford University Press, USA, 2003
Excellent
+ Marred by political correctness
+ If you read one book on the civil war
+ A Great One-Volume History of the Civil War
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971
The Native American's Perspective
+ Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
+ This is a MUST read book!
This book is essentially a collection of short narrative about the struggles of various Native American cultures in what became the United States. The book is written from the perspective of the Native Americans, and thus has a different emphasis than many of today's high school U.S. History ...
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Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
Robert Dallek
Harper Perennial, 2007
kissinger and nixon
+ A great detailed study of foreign policy
+ An unsure Imperial President
I like this book
Anyway to show that Nixon was A GREAT PRESIDENT is in my opinion OK
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Edmund Morris
Modern Library, 2001
Fascinating
+ Absolutely Wonderful!!!
+ A Classic Biography and a Work of Art
+ TR
+ The Greatest of the all
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Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich
William L. Shirer
Simon & Schuster, 1990
One of the most readable histories I've read
+ On the Ground in Germany during the Birth of the Third Reich
+ Remains important, after 50 years
+ Not the Complete Story, but an Essential Read
+ Diplomatic and leadership history - not much else
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Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
Paul Fussell
Oxford University Press, USA, 1990
Finally -- The Truth About World War II
+ see it in context
+ understanding World War II
Paul Fussell's brilliant, earthy account of the lives of everyday soldiers in WWII is vastly superior to the shallow pap of Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, or the pretentious PBS documentary series, The War.
My highest recommendation!
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Huey Long
T. Harry Williams
Vintage, 1981
Living large in Louisiana
+ Excellent read!
+ Post Katrina Huey Blues
+ Best Political Biography Written
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Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon
Stanley I. Kutler
W. W. Norton & Company, 1992
One spring, one well
+ great read
+ Those [expletive deleted] tapes!
+ The Watergate Wars
+ Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis OF Richard Nixon
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