Sunday, February 25, 2018

READ MORE AMERICAN HISTORY

Richard Aldous, Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian (New York: Norton, 2017).

Edward L. Ayers, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (New York: Norton, 2003).

Edward L. Ayers, The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America (New York: Norton, 2017).

Sidney Blumenthal, A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017).

Sidney Blumenthal, Wrestling with His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1849-1856 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016).

Max Boot, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (New York: Liveright, 2018).

Ron Chernow, Grant (New York: Penguin Press, 2017).

Paul Finkelman, Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 2018).

Noam Maggor, Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 2017).

Robert W. Merry, President McKinley: Architect of the American Century (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017).

Michael S. Neiberg, The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (New York: Oxford U. Press, 2016).

Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns, The Vietnam War: An Intimate History: Based on a documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, with an introduction by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (New York: Knopf, 2017).