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Great Reads for History Buffs
Armchair historians can't go wrong with this diverse list of recently published biographies and histories:
Thomas Jefferson: the art of power by Jon Meacham
The man who saved the union: Ulysses Grant in war and peace by H.W. Brands
The passage of power by Robert A. Caro
The Black Count: glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
Rise to greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's most perilous year by David Von Drehle
Custer by Larry McMurtry
The patriarch: the remarkable life and turbulent times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
The last Viking: the life of Roald Amundsen by Stephen R. Bown
Seward: Lincoln's indispensable man by Walter Stahr
Ike's bluff: President Eisenhower's secret battle to save the world by Evan Thomas
Iron curtain: the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 by Anne Applebaum
A wicked war: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenberg
Citizen soldier: a life of Harry S. Truman by Aida D. Donald
Rasputin: the untold story by Joseph T. Fuhrmann
The richest woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age by Janet Wallach
On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives who shaped our world by James Srodes
The last lion, Winston Spencer Churchill. [Vol. 3], Defender of the realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester & Paul Reid