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| Friends of History Book discussion |
Do you enjoy reading books on history? Do you want to read books on history but have a hard time deciding which ones to read? Would you like to discuss your readings with other "history nuts"? All are welcome to the History Book Discussion Group: 7:15 PM NOTE: After 7:00 PM, parking is free in the PSU parking structures.
2007: January 31: Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Team of Rivals, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0743270754, Amazon $11.97 PB, $22.50 HB, Powells $19.95 PB, $25.00 HB. February 28: Ellis, Joseph, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Vintage, ISBN 0679764410, Amazon $10.85 PB, $19.50 HB, Powells $10.95. March 28: Doubler, Michael D. Closing with the Enemy, University of Kansas Press, ISBN 0700607447, Amazon $12.74, Powells $17.95. April 25: Hanson, Neil, The Confident Hope of a Miracle, Vintage books, ISBN 140007817-2, Amazon $1.53, Powells $12.98. May 30: MacMillan, Margaret and Richard Holbrooke, Paris 1919, Random House, ISBN 978-0060540944, Amazon, $11.53, Powell's $11.50. June 27: Hopkirk, Peter, The Great Game, Kodansha Globe, ISBN 978-1568360225, Amazon $12.07, Powell’s $17.00. July 25: Wouk, Herman, The Caine Mutiny, Back Bay Books, ISBN 9780316955102 , Amazon $11.35, Powells $10.50. August 29: Foner, Eric, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0195094978, Amazon $18.95, Powell’s $22.95. September 26: McPherson, James, For Cause and Comrades, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195124996, Amazon $13.45, Powell’s $18.95. October 24: Toll, Ian W., Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy, W.W. Norton, ISBN 978-0393058475, Amazon $18.45, Powell’s $18.95. November 28: Philbrick, Nathaniel, Mayflower, Viking Press, ISBN 9780143111979, Amazon $19.77 HB, $10.88 PB, Powell's $29.99 HB, $16.00 PB. December: No meeting.
2006: January 2006: Massie, Robert K., Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea, Random House. ISBN 0679456716 (Amazon: $12.21, Powell's $17.95, Borders: $17.95). February 22: Twain, Mark, Roughing It, Many editions available, Amazon $12.21+, Powells $6.95+ March 29: Parkman, Francis, The Oregon Trail, Many editions available, Amazon $10.50+, Powells 7.20+ May 31: Levenson, Thomas, Einstein in Berlin, ISBN: 055310344x, Powells $11.55. June 28: Wilson, Edmund. Patriotic Gore, ISBN: 0393312569, Amazon $13.57, Powells $19.95. July 26: Franklin, Benjamin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Many editions available, Amazon $9.95+, Powells $9.95+. August 30: Gaddis, John Lewis, The Cold War: A New History, ISBN: 1594200629, Amazon $17.61, Powells $27.00. September 27: Mann, Charles C., 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Knopf, ISBN 140004006X. Amazon: $18.90, Powells $30.00, Still in hardback. October 25: Fagan, Brian, The Little Ice Age, Basic Books, ISBN 100465022723, $11.02 Amazon, $16.95 Powells Books. November 29: Bass, Robert D., Swamp Fox, Sandlapper Publishing Co., ISBN 0878440518, $9.97 Amazon, $12.95 Powell. December: No meeting.
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January 2005: Gioia,
Ted, The History of Jazz,
Oxford Univ. Press, ISBN 019512653X (Amazon: $12.95; Powell's: $12.50). 23 February 2005: Davis, William C., Three Roads to the Alamo, Perennial, ISBN 0060930942 (Amazon: $14.00; Powell's: $8.98). 30 March 2005: Johnson, Paul, The Renaissance: A Short History, Modern Library, ISBN 0812966198 (Amazon: $9.95; Powell's: $8.98). 27 April 2005: Clark, Donald, Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306811367 (Amazon: $12.95; Powell's: $8.95). 25
May 2005: Chernow,
Ron, Alexander Hamilton,
Penguin Books, ISBN 0143034758 (Amazon: $12.60 paperback available in
April; Powell's: Paperback info N/, Hardcover available now).
29 June 2005: Read, Piers Paul, The Templars, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306810719 (Amazon: $12.24, Powells: $18.00, Borders: $18.00) 27 July 2005: Hibbert, Christopher, Red Coats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes, W.W. Norton and Co. ISBN 0393322939 (Amazon: $11.53, Powells: $11.95, Borders: $16.95). 31 August 2005: Woods, Gordon, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, Penguin Books, ISBN 159420019X (Amazon: $17.53, Powells: $16.00, Borders: $34.95). 28 September 2005: Hanson, Victor Davis, Ripples of Battle, Anchor Books, ISBN 0385721943 (Amazon: $18.15, Powells: $14.95, Borders: $14.95). 26 October 2005: Diamond, Jared, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Viking Press, ISBN 0670033375 (Amazon: $17.97, Powells: $21.00, Borders: $29.95). 30 November 2005: Massie, Robert K., Dreadnaught, Ballentine Books, ISBN 0345375564 (Amazon: $12.89, Powell's $23.00, Borders: $18.95). December 2005: no meeting scheduled.
2004: 28 January 2004: William Least Heat-Moon, Columbus in the Americas (John Wiley & Sons, 2002). 25 February 2004: For February, it has been suggested to read David W. Shaw, Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her (William Morrow, 2000). 31
March
2004: Richard Bruce Winders, Crisis in the Southwest: The
United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas (Scholarly
Resources,
2002). 28
April 2004: James Tertius
deKay, The Rebel Raiders: The
Astonishing History of the Confederacy's Secret Navy
(Ballantine, 2002). 26
May 2004: Andro Linklater, Measuring America: How the United States
Was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History (Walker &
Co., 2002). 30
June 2004: Jo Ann Roe, Ranald
MacDonald: Pacific Rim Adventurer
(Washington State UP, 1997). 28
July 2004: Edward
Dolnick, Down the Great Unknown
(Harper Collins, 2001). 25
Aug. 2004: Richard Zacks, The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of
Captain Kidd (Hyperion Books, 2003). 29
Sept. 2004: Nathaniel
Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea:
The Tragedy of the Whaling Ship Essex (Penguin Books, 2000). 27
Oct. 2004: Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God: A History
of Fundamentalism (Ballentine Books, 2000). November
2004: no meeting. December
2004: no meeting.
2003:
27 January 2003: John Kobler, The Reluctant Surgeon: A Biography of John Hunter (Akadine Press, 1999). 24 February 2003: Joseph E. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Vintage, 2002). 31 March 2003: Hampton Sides, Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Anchor, 2002). 28 April 2003: David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (Owl Books, 2001). 26 May 2003: Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002). 30 June 2003: Bernard Lewis, The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years (Touchstone Books, 1997). 28 July 2003: Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Vintage Books, 2003). 25 August 2003: Elliott Gorn, Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (Hill & Wang Pub, 2002). 29 September 2003: John Lukacs, Five Days in London: May 1940 (Yale UP, 2001). 27 October 2003: Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power (Touchstone Books, 1993). 8
December
2003: David G. McCullough, John Adams (Simon &
Schuster,
2001).
2002: 28 January 2002: Robert Harvey, Cochrane: The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain (Carroll & Graf, 2000). 25 February 2002: Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (Penguin, 2000). 25 March 2002: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, abridged edn, ed. Richard D. Heffner (various printings; most recently Signet Classics, 2001). 29 April 2002: Sheila Firzpatrick, Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization (Oxford UP, 1996). 27 May 2002: Isaiah Berlin, The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000). 29 July 2002: Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (Random House, 2001). 26 August 2002: Edwin P. Hoyt, The Last Cruise of the Emden (Lyons P, 2001). 30 September 2002: Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century (Ballantine, 1987). 28 October 2002: Ross King, Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Penguin, 2001). 25
November
2002: Blaine Harden, A River Lost: The Life and Death of
the
Columbia (W.W. Norton, 1997).
29 January 2001: Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha International, 1994). 26 February 2001: James McPherson, The Negro’s Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union (Ballantine, 1991). 26 March 2001: Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 (Ballantine, 1996). 30 April 2001: James Welch, Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Big Horn and the Fate of the Plains Indians (W.W. Norton, 1994). 28 May 2001: John Keegan, The Book of War (Penguin, 1999). 25 June 2001: Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Haughton Mifflin, 1998). 30 July 2001: Gina Bari Kolata, Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (Touchstone Books, 2001). 27 August 2001: Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms : The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1992). 24 September 2001: Amanda Foreman, Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Random House, 2000). 29 October 2001: William Manchester, American Ceasar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964 (Dell, 1983). 26
November
2001: Bernard A. Weisberger, America Afire: Jefferson,
Adams,
and the Revolutionary Election of 1800 (William Morrow
& Co,
2000).
8 August 2000: Janet Wallach, Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia (Doubleday, 1996). 25 September 2000: John Keegan, The First World War (Vintage, 2000). 30 October 2000: Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water (Penguin, 1993). 27
November
2000: Sylvia Van Kirk, Many Tender Ties: Women in
Fur-Trade
Society, 1670-1870 (U of Oklahoma P, 1983).
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