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Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65 (America in the King Years)
Taylor Branch
Simon & Schuster, 1999
Impossible not to be a letdown
+ Branch's Pillar of Fire
+ The Angle of Moment
+ Branch's Trilogy
+ Keeps the Fire Aflame...Pillared Story of the Shaping of America
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Lincoln
David Herbert Donald
Simon & Schuster, 1996
Lincoln
+ Tight focus on Lincoln, not on larger events
+ My favorite Lincoln Biography. Excellent.
+ Slow start, but picks up the pace quickly.
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Theodore Rex (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Edmund Morris
Modern Library, 2002
Theodore Rex is an Inspirational Book
+ An Excellent Portrait of a Great President
+ A Window into Roosevelt's Presidency
+ Bully! (In a good way, mostly)
+ Good, but not as good as "The Rise"
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To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order
Thomas J. Knock
Princeton University Press, 1995
Turning Your Head Around on Woodrow Wilson
+ Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations
+ Meticulous study on the League of Nations
+ A Good Analysis of President Wilson's Views
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Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars
Robert V. Remini
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
Best treatment of an oft-ignored topic
+ This is a great book, "friends & brothers!"
+ 19th Century Reality
+ 19th Century Reality
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Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
John Ferling
Oxford University Press, USA, 2007
Excellent all around book about Revolutionary War!
+ Excellent all-around
+ Best Book on the American Revolution
+ Could not have been a better book.
+ Very Good Military History
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The Pacific War
John Costello
Harper Perennial, 1982
Thorough coverage of the war
+ excellent starter
+ Good Overview
I just re-read this book and found it hard to put down. Costello writes well, and he obviously has some fascinating history to work with. The slow movement of the allies from sheer desperation in 1942 to overwhelming superiority in 1945 is well described. The fighting in Malaya, Burma, China, ...
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Oxford Companion to World War II
Oxford University Press, USA, 2005
Correction to "page count" comment in earlier review
+ Essential reference, with only slight problems.
+ The book for the World War II
+ A Cautionary Note
+ The Facts about WWII without the Spin
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Vintage, 2006
How the bomb got built here first
+ First rate biography
+ A brilliant presentation of history
+ Missing book
+ Do you remember when Gulliver woke on the beach bound and helpless?
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Truman
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 1993
You Have To Read THIS Book!
+ Terrific History for Political Folks
+ Every Page a Gem
+ Best & worst of McC
+ Buy the Hardback
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The First World War
John Keegan
Vintage, 2000
Essential Reading for background on World War One
+ Brilliant But Flawed
This is an outstanding book, and essential reading for anyone needing an introduction to World War I. This war was quite different from the one that followed it. The mindless human sacrifice - millions of men walking arm in arm into the face of enemy gun fire - made somewhat explicable by John ...
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (America in the King Years)
Taylor Branch
Simon & Schuster, 2006
must read for all americans
+ Thank you, J. Edgar
+ Death & Transfiguration
+ Must read for students if the civil rights movement
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Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
H.W. Brands
Doubleday, 2005
Andrew Jackson
+ Preserving the Union through a world of struggle
+ Solid Introduction to Andrew Jackson
+ Man and Myth Reconciled
+ A Good Read on Andrew Jackson
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States)
David M. Kennedy
Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
An Iluminating Book
+ Magnificent
+ Great Non-Romanticized Story-Telling
+ Freedom From Fear
+ Interesting, Well Researched and Well Written!
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Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years)
Taylor Branch
Simon & Schuster, 1989
Moving storytelling
+ Undiscovered Country
+ Amazingly Woven Detail
+ Indispensable
+ Excellent and Informative
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