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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 
History Department Conference Room,
441 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.

Attention, New Information:

If you would like to be on the Book Club email list, please send your email address to Dick Winningstad: lemans3@comcast.net.

Suggested Books:

Darwin, John, After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405, Bloomsbury Press, 2008 ISBN 978-1596913936, Amazon $23.95, Powell's $34.95.

Egan, Timothy, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, Mariner Books, ISBN 0618773479, Amazon $10.17, Powells $14.95, GNW ~$15.00

Elliott, J.H., Imperial Spain: 1469-1716 , Penguin, ISBN 0141007036, Amazon $10.88, Powell's $16.00, GNW Bookstore $5.00-7.00.

Flood, Charles Bracelen, Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War , Perennial, ISBN 978-0061148712, Amazon $11.53, Powells $ 10.95

Kaye, M.M., The Far Pavilions , St. Martins Griffin, 1997, ISBN 978-0312151256. Amazon $12.98, Powells $18.95

Lewis, David Levering, God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215, W.W> Norton, 2008 ISBN 978-0393064728, Amazon $19.77, Powell's $29.95.

Morris, John, Londinium , Phoenix Press, ISBN 1898801622, Amazon $22.84, Powells $5.98.

Unsworth, Barry, Sacred Hunger , Doubleday, ISBN 9780385265300, Amazon $10.61, Powell's $8.50 (one left 2/3)

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If you have a suggested book, please contact Dick Winningstad at lemans3@comcast.net.

 

2008:

Jan. 30: McCullough, David, Johnstown Flood , Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0671207148, Amazon $10.20, Powell's $8.95, GNW Bookstore $9.00-12.00.

Feb. 27: Striner, Richard, Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery , Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0195183061, Amazon $18.48, Powell’s $22.00.

Mar. 26: Perry, John, Sgt. York; His Life, Legacy, and Legend, B&H Publishing Group, Nashville, ISBN 9780805460742, Amazon $13.59, Powells’s $19.99

Apr. 30: Jefferson, Thomas, Notes on Virginia , University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0807845884. Library of America, others

May 28: Rhodes, Richard, The Making of the Atomic Bomb , Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, ISBN 0684813785, Amazon $13.60, Powell's $8.98, GNW Bookstore $1.29-6.50.

June 25: Rhodes, Richard, The Making of the Atomic Bomb , Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, ISBN 0684813785, Amazon $13.60, Powell's $8.98, GNW Bookstore $1.29-6.50.

July 30: Barone, Michael, Our First Revolution, The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers, Crown Publishers, ISBN 9781400097920, Amazon $17.13, Powells $25.95, GNW $25.95.

Aug. 27: Doolittle, James H., Carroll V. Glines, I Could Never Be So Lucky Again, Schiffler Publishing, ISBN 9780887407376, Amazon $29.95 (HB), $7.95 (PB), Powell’s $7.95 (PB) used HB ~ $11.00

Sept 24: Egan Timothy, Breaking Blue , Sasquatch Books, ISBN 1570614296, Amazon $11.96, Powells $14.95, GNW ~$15.00 – Cold case murder in Spokane solved.

 

For a full list of books discussed in previous years, see the archive page.