Posted on 07/05/2021 4:42:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Today’s students get the Howard Zinn version of American History and are punished if they question it.
I have always liked the F. Van Wyck Mason books on the Revolutionary War. He often referred to it as the first civil war...American Tories v. American Patriots. I’m close to where the battle of Kings Mountain was fought. Not one Britisher was involved.
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Above is a link to a long booklet called “Revolution Was” written about FDR and the New Deal - in 1938. So much of the same stuff is still happening. I think Obama ripped off of FDR the same ideas - and words in speeches.
“Having passed this crisis, the New Deal went on from one problem to another, taking them in the proper order, according to revolutionary technic; and if the handling of one was inconsistent with the handling of another, even to the point of nullity, that was blunder in reverse. The effect was to keep people excited about one thing at a time, and divided, while steadily through all the uproar of outrage and confusion a certain end, held constantly in view, was pursued by main intention.
The end held constantly in view was power.”
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose.
A list of the 25 best histories should not include 25 books on American political history.
World history is more informative on the evolution of political thought and the evils of socialism.
Business history is more informative on the productive economic engine that permits the political sphere to exist at all.
Read the Will Durant series The Story of Civilization
Nothing on European History.
America was born with Anglo-Saxon common Law, the Roman Reoublic and Ancient Greece.
You can’t understand us unless you know where we came from and all political thought is rooted in history.
Cool. I just got my reading list for the rest of the year. Thanks, Kas.
Any list that doesn’t include Winston Churchill’s history of WW II is worthless.
As you mentioned, it is just too narrowly focused on US history.
But many of the books are worthy of being mentioned, and some of the books I had not heard of (”How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life”).
I am also finished reading about the Kennedy clan, though Papa Joe deserves a more thorough going over.
BUMP!
Rush’s stories for kids must be on that list.
1) What does Hannibal have to do with Afghanistan? He never came within 6,000 miles of the country.
The notion that Afghanistan is "the graveyard of empires" is a myth. Afghanistan has been successfully invaded many times. It is a Muslim country today thanks to the Arabs, who extirpated Buddhism and Hinduism, which most of its people followed, following their conquest of Afghanistan in the seventh century.
2) Watergate, which involved eavesdropping, is to Teapot Dome, a financial scandal involving oil reserves as apples are to pyramids. And the Teapot Dome scandal reached its zenith during the Coolidge administration. However, they are related in the sense that both presidents Nixon and Harding were unaware of what their underlings were doing.
Way too heavy on Reagan. Shelby Foote not on the list? Milton Friedman’s monetary history of the US? Amity Shlaes The Forgotten Man? Paul Johnson Intellectuals? Whitaker Chambers Witness. Michael Hitzik Colossus (Hoover Dam building).
If you want to read something on JFK. Read “A Question of Character “ by Thomas Reaves. A historian who expected to write the usual JFK hagiography but in doing the research found something different. It’s very well referenced. See the link below.
I have read some of them and it’s a good list.
I am more of a history nut than a pure political guy.
I started as a kid with a book called “Kings and Things” about Medieval England. Good kids book. I bought “the British Are Coming” and it’s great. A good introductory history to English history is Costain’s series on the Plantagenets.
From Wlliam the Bastard (not a Plantagenet) through Richard III and Henry VI. Covers Magna Charta and Simon De Montfort. “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” is good.
Reading “In Search of an Empire” about Drake and Elizabeth I. What got me interested in US History was Bruce Cotton’s entire series on the Civil War. Now my main interest in US history is the Civil War, Revolution and early colonial wars.
Shirley they can’t be serious???
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