April 1865
by Jay Winek, 2001, Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., New York This was a great book to read, primarily because the author used, in his own words, “vivid writing.” I’m not sure what he meant by this, but his prose is … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: History
One Hell of a Gamble, The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, 1997, W.W. Norton & Company, New York This book is a detailes account of the events that led up to and took place during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The research that went into the … Continue reading →
Honor’s Voice, The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
by Douglas L. Wilson, 1998, Alfred A. Knopf, New York I had always eyed this book as it surely targeted a subject that I was interested in: the transformation of Abrahams Lincoln from a backwoods youth to the person who had … Continue reading →
Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow, 2005, Penguin Books This is a fantastic book that is chock-full of information about Alexander Hamilton, but, more importantly, his imprint on the structure of our federal government. It also provides a lot of insight regarding the … Continue reading →
Origins of a Catastrophe
Origins of a Catastrophe, by Warren Zimmerman, 1999, Times Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York Warren Zimmerman was the last U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia and the Balkan War broke out in the 1990’s. The book relates his … Continue reading →
In Harm’s Way
by Doug Stanton, 2003, Henry Holt & Company, New York This book is about the sinking of the cruiser Indianapolis in the Pacific Ocean toward the end of World War II. The book is well researched and well written. The … Continue reading →
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, The Forgotten War that Changed American History
by Brian Kilmead and Don Yaeger, 2015, Random House, New York This is a quick book to read and it is done pretty well. The authors keep it moving so the reader never gets bogged down. It tells the story … Continue reading →
The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination
by Barry Strauss, 2015, Simon & Schuster, New York This book was our men’s book club selection for March. Perhaps this book is more enjoyable to those with a greater interest in ancient history, but I think that one of … Continue reading →
The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough, 2015, Simon and Schuster, New York I thought this book was interesting, primarily because I didn’t know that much about the Wright brothers, even though I had made one visit to Kitty Hawk. McCullough, as usual in … Continue reading →
Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965
by Yuen Foong Khong, 1992, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ This is one of the books that my son, Peter, had as a result of his master’s studies at George Washington University. I went through the box and picked out … Continue reading →