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Book Title,  Author,  Publisher,  Year, How Much of it I’ve Read, and a Comment if applicable.

America Alone Mark Steyn, all: Brilliant

Lies My Teacher Told Me James W. Loewe, a lot: edifying

Vigilante Days And Ways Nathaniel P. Langford, very little: Amust read as soon as I can.

The Indian Wars Washburne & Utley, some

America’s Fascinating Indian Heritage Readers Digest, some

El Cid Soldier And Hero Maria De Vivanco, all

The International Atlas Rand McNally, reference

World History Atlas a Dorking Kindersley Book, reference

The Times Atlas Of World History, reference

Atlas Of The Medival World Oxford, reference

Rome In Spectacular Cross Section Stephen Biesty, all

What Life Was Like On The Banks Of The Nile Time-Life, reference

What Life Was Like At The Dawn Of Democracy Time-Life, reference

What Life Was Like When Rome Ruled The World Time-Life, reference

What Life Was Like In The Age Of Chivalry Time-Life, reference

What Life Was Like In Europe’s Golden Age Time-Life, reference

The Old West: The Soldiers Time-Life, reference

The Old West: The Cowboys Time-Life, reference

The Old West: The Railroaders Time-Life, all

The Old West: The Indians Time-Life, all

The Old West: The Trailblazers Time-Life, all

The New Encyclopedia of the American West ed. Howard R. Lamar Yale University Press, some

Atlas of the Civil War Steven E. Woodworth & Kenneth J. Winkle Oxford University Press, some

The Rise of the West William H. McNeill The University of Chicago Press 1963, all: Phenomenal

Battle Cry of Freedom The Civil War Era James M. McPherson Oxford University Press 1988, all: Phenominal

An Illustrated History of the First World War John Keegan Alfred A. Knoff 2001, some

The Rise of American Democracy Sean Wilentz 2 W.W. Norton 2005, none

International Commercial Rivalry in Southeast Asia in the Interwar Period ed. Shinya Sugiyama & Milagros Guerrero Yale University Press 1994, none

Reagan and Gorbachev Jack F. Matlock Jr. Random House 2004, none

Corazon Aquino and the Brushfire Revolution Robert Reid & Eileen Guerrrero Louisianna State University Press 1995, none

DeLessups S. Morrison and the Image of Reform Edward F. Hass Louisianna State University Press, none

Falling Up Raymond D. Strother Louisianna State University Press 2003, all: excellent

The Flemming Lectures, 1937 - 1990 Burl Noggle Louisianna State University Press 1992, none

Eugene McCarthy Dominic Sandbrook Alfred A. Knoff 1997, none

Congress and the Foreign Policy Process Crabb, Antizzo & Sarieddine Louisianna State University Press 2000, none

Judgement Days - Lyndon Johnson & Martin Luther King Nick Kotz Houghton Mifflin 2005, all: excellent

The Bystander Nick Bryant Basic Books 2006, none: but I’m gonna.

The Cold War John Lewis Gaddis Penguin Press 2005, some: great

Cold War Respite The Geneva Summit of 1955 ed. Gunter Bishof & Saki Dockrill Louisianna State University Press 2000, none

Voices From The Korean War Richard Peters & Xiaobing Li University Press of Kentucky 2004, all: great

A History of Russia Fourth Edition Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Oxford University Press 1984, all: excellent

Reds A History of McCarthyism in the 20th Century Ted Morgan Random House 2003, none

The First Fifty Years Soviet Russia 1917-67 Ian Grey Coward-McCann 1967, none

Stalin The Court of the Red Tsar Simon Sebag Montefiore Alfred A. Knoff 2004, none

Stalin And His Hangmen Donald Rayfield Random House 2004, none

Endkampf The Death of the Third Reich Stephen G. Fritz 3 The University Press of Kentucky 2004, none

The Nazi Conscience Claudia Koonz Belnap Press of Harvard University 2003, none

War In The Wild East Ben Sheperd Harvard University Press 2004, none

Oss Operatives, Spies and Saboteurs Patrtick K. O’Donnell Free Press 2004, some: excellent

Armageddon The Battle For Germany, 1944 - 1945 Max Hastings Alfred A. Knoff 2004, all: awesome

Hitlers Foreign Policy 1933 - 1939 Gerhard L. Weinberg Enigma Books 2005, none

The Spanish Civil War, The Soviet Union, and Communism Stanley G. Payne Yale University Press, none

France In 1938 Benjamin F. Martin Louisianna State University Press 2005, none

The Crisis Of The Old Order The Age Of Roosevelt Arthur m. Schlesinger Jr. Francis Parkman Prize HBC 1957, some: Presidental knee-pads in book form.

That Man An Insider’s Portrait Of Franklin D. Roosevelt Robert H. Jackson Oxford University Press 2003, all: excellent

Hugo Black Roger K. Newman Pantheon Books 1994, none

Turmoil And Tradition, Henry L. Stimson Elting E. Morrison Francis Parkman Prize HBC 1960, none

Dust Bowl The Southern Plains in the 1930s Donald Worster Oxford University Press 1979, none
The Great Influenza John M. Barry Viking 2004, none

Paris 1919 Margaret Macmillian Random House 2001, all: The second best history book that I have ever read. Not ccoincidentally it is also the second funniest.

Tannenberg Clash of Empires 1914 Dennis E. Showalter Brassy’s Inc. 2004, none

The First World War Hew Strachan Viking Press 2004, all: pretty good. I need to read more bookjs to have a comparison.

Over Here The First World War and American Society David M. Kennedy Oxford University Press 2004, all: Absolutely eye-openning. One of the cornerstones of my political awareness.

Intmate Voices of the First World War ed. Svetlana Palmer & Sarah Wallis 4 William Morrow 2003, all: pretty good. I think all of the WW 1 histories that I’ve read suffer in comparrison to “All’s Quiet On The Western Front.”

Perilous Times *Free Speech In Wartime* Geoffrey R. Stone W.W. Norton 2004, some: I’m a little leary of its potential slant but I can’t wait to read it anyway.

1912 Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debbs - The Election that Changed the Country James Chace Simon & Schuster 2004, all: provides great context

Murdering McKinley Eric Rauchway Hill and Wang 2003, all: phenominal. The template of what a perfect history book should be.

Little Brown Brother How The United States Purchased and Pacified the Phillippine Islands at the Century’s Turn Leon Wolff Francis Parkman Prize HBC 1960, all: Unfortunette Title but a very important but forgotten part of American history.

A Novel 1876 Gore Vidal Random House 1976, all: Phenominal but only Gore Vidal could make Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. look objective.

My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune Jean-Charles Houzeau Louisianna State University Press 1984, none: I can’t wait to read this. A first person account of Louisianna during reconstruction.

Black Over White Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction Thomas Holt University of Illinois Press 1977, none

The Roots Of Southern Populism Steven Hahn Oxford University Press 1983, some: might be to “acadamic” for me to get through. And that’s saying something.

Army Generals and Reconstruction Louisianna, 1862-1877 Joseph G. Dawson III Louisianna State University Press 1982, none

George Henry White An Even Chance In The Race Of Life Benjamin R. Justesen Louisianna State University Press 2001, none

Railroads & American Law James W. Ely Jr. University of Kansas Press 2001, some

Lawyering For The Railroad William G. Thomas Louisianna State University Press 1999, none

Exploration And Empire The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West William H. Goetzmann Francis Parkman Prize HBC 1966, about half: some of this is facsinating.

Reconstruction Eric Foner Francis Parkman Prize HBC 1988, all: The most important American History Book.

Redemption The Last Battle of the Civil War Nicholas Lemann Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2006, almost done: as brilliant as it is depressing.

Personal Memoirs Ulysses S. Grant The Modern Library 1885, some: I sprinkle this book in conversation all the time.

Grant and Twain Herman Hattaway & Archer Jones University of Illinois Press 1983, all: A great story.

Ulysses S. Grant Waldo W. Braden Louisianna State University Press 1988, all

How The North Won Ronald C. White Jr Random House 2005, some: At its best when its at its most simplistic which is the exact same

compliment that I give Thucydides.

Bound For Canaan The Underground Railroad Fergus M. Bordewich Harper Collins 2005, none: I need more free time.

Slave Nation Alfred W. Blumrosen & Ruth G. Blumrosen 2005, none: ditto

Lincoln’s War Geofffrey Perret 5 Random House 2004, all: I am so glad I read this. Some of the anecdotes are priceless.

River Run Red The Fort Pillow Massacre Andrew Ward Viking 2005, some: a must read and that includes myself.

Civil War In The Making Avery O. Craven Louisianna State University Press 1959, none

Gray Ghosts Of The Confederacy Richard S. Brownlee Louisianna State University Press 1958, some: I can’t wait to read this.

The South To Posterity Douglas Southall Freeman Louisianna State University Press 1939, none

Zachary Taylor K. Jack Bauer Louisianna State University Press 1985, none

The Ideology Of Slavery Drew Gilpin Faust Louisianna State University Press 1981, none

American Slavery American Freedom Edmund S. Morgan Francis Parkman Prize HBC 1975, none

Bleeding Kansas Nicole Etcheson University Press of Kansas 2004, all: The incredible story of anti-slavery terrorists like Wild Bill Hickock, Buffalo Bill and John Brown fighting pro-slavery terrorists like Jesse James and the Younger Brothers in the decade leading up to the Civil War officially starting.

Buffalo Bill’s America Louis S. Warren Alfred A. Knoff 2005, half: Did you know that it was jealousy of Buffalo Bill that inspired Bram Stoker to write “Dracula?” Damned interesting.

Oh What A Slaughter *Massacres in the American West: 1846-1890* Larry McMurty Simon & Schuster 2005, most: I already knew most of it.

Eyewitness To The Indian Wars 1865-1890 Peter Cozens Stackpole Books 2004, a little: I have it for reference.

Wagons West Frank McLynn Grove Press 2002, almost all: first person accounts of the Oregon Trail.

The Captured Scott Zesch St. Martins Press 2004, all: first person accounts of being abducted by the Comanche. Intense.

Roughing It Mark Twain University of California Press 1870, most: All anybody ever eats in this first person account of Nevada in the 1860’s is bacon. A lot of fun.

The Oregon Trail David Dary Alfred A. Knoff 2004, most: self explainitory.

After Lewis And Clark Robert M. Utley University of Nebraska Press 1997, most: the cast of characters who were the shock troops of manifest destiny.

Wedding Of The Waters The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation Peter L. Bernstein W. W. Norton 2005, none: I really want to read this.

When The Mississippi Ran Backwards Jay Feldman Free Press 2005, none: America’s gigantic four month long Missouri earthquake of 1811-12.

The End Of Barbary Terror Frederick C. Leiner Oxford University Press 2006, all: The last of the wars America fought to eradicate Africa’s white European slave trade. Very useful to know during a lot of different arguments.

White Gold Giles Milton Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2004, some: One million white slaves in Africa and nobody remembers? Hmnnn..

1812 The War That Forged A Nation Walter R. Borneman Harper Collins 2004, half: Really, really good.

John Adams Party of One James Grant 6 Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2005, none: I’m getting to it.

Adams Vs. Jefferson The Tumultuous Election of 1800 John Ferling Oxford University Press 2004, none: ditto

Rough Crossings Britain, The Slaves and the American Revolution Simon Schama Harper Collins 2006, none: I’m just more into the 1800’s.

The Failure Of The Founding Fathers Bruce Ackerman Harvard University Press 2005, none

The Federalist Hamilton, Madison & Jay Hackette Publishing Company 1788, a lot: pretty good stuff. I wonder what happened to them?

The Words We Live By an Annotated Guide to the Constitution Linda R. Monk Hyperion 2003, a little: (I have read the constitution.)

The Glorious Cause The American Revolution 1763-1789 Robert Middlekauff Oxford University Press 1982, all: suffers in comparison with “Battle Cry Of Freedom,” but so does almost everything.

1776 David McCullough Simon & Schuster 2005, all” The first chapter worried me a little bit and then the book kicked in and I still wish Mr. McCullough would hurry up with 1777 et. Al.

Revolutionary Characters What Made the Founders Different Gordon S. Wood The Penguin Press 2006, none

Crucible Of American Democracy Andrew Shankman University Press of Kansas 2004, none

Tom Paine And Revolutionary America Eric Foner Oxford University Press 1976, none: I am so inundated by books that I had no idea that this was by Eric Foner until I was typing in this entrey. Suddenly a must read.

White Devil Stephen Brumwell Da Capo Press 2004, none

1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann Alfred A. Knoff 2005, very little: Absolulely facsinating account of what was accidentally wiped out by disease before Europeans encountered American Indians.

Inside The Victorian Home Judith Flanders W. W. Norton 2003, none: I just like having books like this around.

The Roads To Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments Gertrude Himmelfarb Alfred A. Knoff 2004, none: I’ll get to it.

William Pitt The Younger William Hague Alfred A. Knoff 2004, none: ditto

Unknown Seas: How Vasco da Gama Opened The East Ronald Watkins John Murray 2003, none

Rivers Of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan Hugh Thomas Random House 2003, none

The Medival Word Friedrich Heer New American Library 1961, none

War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War John W. Dower Pantheon Books 1986, some

Capitalism & Freedom Milton Friedman The University of Chicago Press 1962, some

Guide To English Literature: From Beowulf through Chaucer and Medieval Drama David M. Zesmer Barnes & Noble 1961, none: Reference

Comstock Lode Louis L’Amour Bantam Books 1981, all: I liked it.

Plaugues And People William H. McNeill 1 Anchor Press 1977, all: Genious at a level few can match

Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Talibon Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt For Bin Laden Jean-Charles Brisard & Guillaume Dasquie Nation Books 20o2, all: Fascinating

Bhagavad-Gita: As It Is His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivdanta Swami Prabhupada Braktivedanta Book Trust, a lot: Fascinating

The Marx-Engels Reader ed. By Robert C. Tucker W.W. Norton 1972, none

The Concert Of Europe: 1815-1914 Rene Albrecht-Carrie Harper & Row 1968, none: I need more free time.

A People’s History Of The United States Howard Zinn Perennial Library 1980, all: comes in handy all the time to be able to say I’ve read this.

Silver Pigs: A Detective Novel In Ancient Rome Lindsey Davis Crown Publishers 1981, all: liked it a lot. I’ve read it at least twice.

The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage Cliff Stoll Simon & Schuster 1989, none: supposed to be real good.

Journey To The End Of The Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine New Directions 1934, very little: I’ll figure out some other way to impress girls.

The 911 Commision Report many cooks W. W. Norton, all: Jamie S. Gorelick was on this commision because of why?

The Outline Of Sanity: A Life of G. K. Chesterton Alzina Stone Dale William B. Erdmans 1982, no comment its by my mother

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 1 Sir Arther Conan Doyle Bantam Books 1986, some: How can the complete anything be volume 1?

The Republic Plato, trans. By Alan Bloom Basic Books 1968, all: Comes in handy to have actually read it when discussing it.

The Basic Writings of John Sturart Mill guess Modern Library 2002, very little: My sister gave me it. I’ll get to it.

Five Points Tyler Anbinder Plume 2001, none

Prison Conditions In Czechoslovakia: Janurary 1989, A Helsinki Watch Report Helsinki Watch 1989, none: On the shelf to impress women.

The Virtue Of Prosperity Dinesh D’Souza Simon & Schuster 2000, none

Television And Radio Announcing Sixth Edition Stuart W. Hyde Houghton Mifflin 1991, all, over and over: my future

Panorama Of The Enlightenment Dorinda Outram, none: still in shrink wrap

The White House Tapes: Eavesdropping on the President ed. By John Prados The New Press 2003, none: I’ve got to get a CD walkman.

The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency James Bamford Penguin Press 1982, all: fantastic

In The Arena President Richard Nixon Pocket Books 1990, all: His sense of humor silences his critics. It is so much fun to quote this book and then say who I’m quoting. The chapter on temperance is priceless.

The Hero With A Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell Princeton University Press 1949, a liitle: I’d rather watch “Star Wars.”

The Complete Idiot’s Guide To The Old West Mike Flanagan 2 Alpha Books 1999, a lot: research

Western Words: A Dictionary of the Old West Ramon F. Adams Hippocrene Books 1998, a lot: research

The Castle of Otranto, Vathek and The Vampyre Walpole, Beckford, Polidori Dover Publications 1811, 1893, 1819, some: research

The Life of Hon. William F. Cody Known as Buffalo Bill William F. Cody University of Nebraska Press 1876, a little: seems awesome

Western Mining Otis E. Young University of Oklahoma Press 1970, most: research

Skinwalkers Tony Hillerman Harper Collins 1986, all: research

Three VampireTales: Dracula, Carmilla, The Vampyre Stoker, Le Fanu, Polidori Houghton Mifflin 2003, a lot: research

Poetics Aristotle Penguin Press aprox. 340 b.c., all: research

Hombre Elmore Leonard Harper Collins 1961, all

The Histories Herodotus Penguin Classics 450 B.C., all: Shows that “The War On Terror” is actually “The Trojan War” which never ended.

The Elements Of Style Strunk & White The Macmillan Company 1959, some

A Short History Of Chinese Communism Franklin W. Houn Prentice-Hall 1967, a little: Too long.

The Plantation Mistress: Womans World in the Old South Catherine Clinton Pantheon Books 1982, none

The Picture Of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Airmont Books 1964, all: A 221 page version of “the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”

The Man Born To Be King Dorothy L. Sayers Ignatius Press 1943, none

A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance Martin J. Sherwin Random House 1973, none

Mystery Readers Walking Guide: Loondon Alzina Stone Dale Passport Books 1995, most: After reading every Bruce Alexander mystery I used this to get my bearings.

Mystery Readers Walking Guide: New York Alzina Stone Dale Passport Books 1997, I live there. I was sort of the technical director.

The Dance Of Legislation Eric Redman Simon & Schuster 1973, all: The life of a Senate staffer. I loved it.

The Pimp’s Rap: A True Story The Master Pimp The Old School 1999, none: No need.

The Plays Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde The Modern Library, none: I will.

Artisans Into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Cenyury America Bruce Laurie Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1989, Some: Pretty much got already from other books

Spy Catcher Pter Wright Dell Publishing 1987, all

Red Planet Robert A. Heinlein Charles Scribner’s Sons 1949, all: Go guns!

Edward Bellamy Looking Backwards New American Library 1888, half: America’s Marx

The Long Fuse: An Interpretation of the Origins of World War I Laurence Lafore J. B. Lippincott Company 1971, all: Great

The End Of Glory: An Interpretation of the Origins of World War II Laurence Lafore J. B. Lippincott Company 1970, all: Great

The State And Revolution V. I. Lenin Foreign Language Press 1973, none

Eastern Arabic: An Introduction to the Spoken Arabic of Palistine, Syria & Lebanon Rice & Sa’id Khayat’s 1977, a little

America Firsthand: From Settlement to Reconstruction Volume 1 Marcus & Burner St. Martins Press 1995, all: Fascinating

The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages Jean Gimpel Penguin Books 1976, all: Stunning. One of the most earth shattering books that I have ever read.