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History Book Discussion Group
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 
The Gordon Dodds Room, 494 Cramer Hall,
at Broadway & Montgomery

(Between Smith Center and Lincoln Hall)
Portland State University

NOTE:  After 7:00 PM, parking is free in the PSU parking structures.

For more information, or to add your email address to the Book Clup email list, contact Dick Winningstad: lemans3@comcast.net.


 

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+

April 26: Pick a book on the Lewis and Clark Expedition and come to the meeting to discuss it.

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.


2005:

26 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).


2001:

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).


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).