Goodreads Recommends--History!
Feb. 27th, 2013 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skjamThis time I'll be listing the books Goodreads recommends from my history shelf. On this shelf I have actual history books, biographies of historical figures and fiction about history. There will be a fair number of long-titled books.
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century by Paula Uruburu
The Anatomy of Deception by Lawrence Goldstone
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
The Black Tower by Louis Bayard
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker
A Bride's Story, Vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock
The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller
Connections by James Burke
A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug by Thomas Hager
The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison and the Trial that Ushered In the Twentieth Century by Harold Schechter
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself by Daniel J. Boorstin
Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
Exodus by Leon Uris
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
The Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane
For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder that Shocked Chicago by Simon Baatz
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World by Hugh Brewster
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago by Douglas Perry
Green River Killer: A True Detective Story by Jeff Jensen
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides
Holy War: How Vasco de Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations by Nigel Cliff
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-loving New York by Richard Zacks
It was the War of the Trenches by Jacques Tardi
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff
Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion by by Robert Morgan
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
Marzi by Marzena Sowa
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins
Plaugues and Peoples by William Hardy McNeill
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century by Scott Miller
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough
Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 by Jackson Lears
Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo
Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith by Joseph Smith
Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It by Craig Timberg
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by David von Drehle
Under the Eagle by Simon Scarrow
Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey by GB Tran
Wicked Bugs: The Louse that Conquered Napoleon's Army a& Other Diabolical Insects by Amy Stewart
Tends towards the bloody side of history, don't it?
As always, if you've read any of these, or heard some buzz, or have a book on the subject you'd recommend instead, go ahead and comment.
Don't forget I have a review blog at http://www.skjam.com
Incidentally, the book I'm going to be concentrating on next is on the history of Ferry Farm, George Washington's childhood home.
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century by Paula Uruburu
The Anatomy of Deception by Lawrence Goldstone
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
The Black Tower by Louis Bayard
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker
A Bride's Story, Vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock
The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller
Connections by James Burke
A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug by Thomas Hager
The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison and the Trial that Ushered In the Twentieth Century by Harold Schechter
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself by Daniel J. Boorstin
Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
Exodus by Leon Uris
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
The Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane
For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder that Shocked Chicago by Simon Baatz
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World by Hugh Brewster
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago by Douglas Perry
Green River Killer: A True Detective Story by Jeff Jensen
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides
Holy War: How Vasco de Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations by Nigel Cliff
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-loving New York by Richard Zacks
It was the War of the Trenches by Jacques Tardi
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff
Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion by by Robert Morgan
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
Marzi by Marzena Sowa
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins
Plaugues and Peoples by William Hardy McNeill
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century by Scott Miller
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough
Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 by Jackson Lears
Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo
Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith by Joseph Smith
Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It by Craig Timberg
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by David von Drehle
Under the Eagle by Simon Scarrow
Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey by GB Tran
Wicked Bugs: The Louse that Conquered Napoleon's Army a& Other Diabolical Insects by Amy Stewart
Tends towards the bloody side of history, don't it?
As always, if you've read any of these, or heard some buzz, or have a book on the subject you'd recommend instead, go ahead and comment.
Don't forget I have a review blog at http://www.skjam.com
Incidentally, the book I'm going to be concentrating on next is on the history of Ferry Farm, George Washington's childhood home.
