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| Posted: Mon Nov 14th, 2005 06:50 pm |
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javal1
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I'm always curious about what interests our members have other than the Civil War. I hope some of you will share your latest non-CW related reads here. In fairness, I'll begin with mine...
Currently reading: "Plan of Attack" by Bob Woodward (for the second time)
Recent reads:
"The Conquerors" by Michael Beschloss
"Who Says Elephants Can't Dance" by Louis Gerstner, Jr.
"Bush At War" by Bob Woodward
"This Just In" by Bob Schieffer
"Benjamin Franklin" by Edmund Morgan
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15th, 2005 12:54 am |
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Margana
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I'm just finishing up "The Road to Guilford Courthouse". I should be getting a new h/c of Susan Kay's "Phantom" any week now (hopefully); and will be re-reading Gaston Leroux's "Phantom of the Opera" in preparation for a trip to see ALW's play on Broadway. "The Descent of Woman" is kind of staring me in the face, too. Civil war books up the Wazoo............ which is probably a river someplace down south.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15th, 2005 05:22 am |
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Cap
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Recent reads for me include:
Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson, 1776 by David McCullough, Nothing Like It In The World by Stephen E. Ambrose, and Visions of Courage by Dr. Bobby E. Smith.
Tons of CW related books on the shelf waiting to be tackled at some point in the future.
If someone can recommend a good book on Sherman, I would like to read more on him. I'd be interested in any suggestions.
Cap
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15th, 2005 03:39 pm |
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kj3553
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Margana wrote: I'm just finishing up "The Road to Guilford Courthouse". I should be getting a new h/c of Susan Kay's "Phantom" any week now (hopefully); and will be re-reading Gaston Leroux's "Phantom of the Opera" in preparation for a trip to see ALW's play on Broadway. "The Descent of Woman" is kind of staring me in the face, too. Civil war books up the Wazoo............ which is probably a river someplace down south.
Oh my goodness. Yet another Phan on this board? My, what a small world. Have you read Kay's book before? If you haven't, I think you'll find yourself in for a treat.
Hmm...let's see. What am I reading these day? (Other than CW) I just started The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde, the third in his Thursday Next series. I've got the 4th one as well, Something Rotten. They're wonderfully witty, something between fantasy, detective fiction, and literature, and are just plain a hoot to read. I came across the first one, The Eyre Affair, a couple years ago on the bargain table at a local book store, and couldn't put it down. One of my favorite scenes in that one was the performance of Shakespeare's Richard III, done up a la The Rocky Horror Picture Show, complete with audience participation.
Margana, if you ever want to talk POTO, let me know. I can refer you to a great discussion board. It's a smallish one, only about 40 members, but they're a great group of ladies and a couple of gents.
~KJ
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15th, 2005 05:15 pm |
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Margana
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Cap, Earlier this past summer I finished reading "Memoirs of W. T. Sherman". I always liked Uncle Billy, as I feel he was a no-nonsense military man which was needed at the time. When you have a war to fight, proselytising (sp?) isn't necessary. He just did what had to be done. Remember, too, it wasn't Sherman who burned Atlanta..... or Columbia. Next to Grant, he would be my favorite Union man.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 16th, 2005 03:31 pm |
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David White
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Ah, Margana, Sherman did burn Atlanta... He completely destroyed the place before marching to the sea in November 64.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 16th, 2005 04:47 pm |
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Margana
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Southern sensitivity.... I understand. Sherman did NOT burn Atlanta; Hood did. Hood did it to keep the Union from using the city as a base of operations. He was most uncaring as to what happened to the civilians with his military base of operations. As for Columbia, that can be laid at Wade Hampton's door.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 16th, 2005 06:43 pm |
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David White
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No Margana, no sensitivity at all.
It happened 141 years ago today. Check out This day in the Civil War on this very website if you don't believe me. Yes, Hood burned government facilities as he left town in September but 1.5 months later Sherman finished the job to include all but a few residences and churches that were isolated enough to avoid consumption in the fire.
Go back and read Sherman's memoirs again if you don't believe me, he has an interesting take on his feelings as he watched the town burn.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 16th, 2005 08:06 pm |
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GenHood
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Cap, I would suggest "Sherman's Civil War" , edited by Brooks Simpson and Jean Berlin, which isn't a biography of Cump but contains many of his letters from 1860-1865. If you want an up close look at how, what and why Sherman was thinking during the war, this book should interest you.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30th, 2005 10:19 pm |
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DRL
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Waterloo A Near Run Thing, by David Howarth and Goodby To All That, by Robert Graves,which is an excellent book. Currently reading Company Aych by Sam Watson.
DRL
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31st, 2005 12:47 am |
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Hellcat
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Currently I'm reading Jeff Shaara's To the Last Man. Right now it's pretty intresting what he's doing with Lufbery and von Richthofen.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31st, 2005 02:51 am |
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Kent Nielsen
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Hi The only non-Civil War book I am currently reading is the Bible. But I recently finished Why I am a Muslim by Asma Hasan and No God But God by Reza Aslan.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11th, 2006 07:46 pm |
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ckleisch
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I have read the following books lately:
1.) " Fighting for the Confederacy- The Personal recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander"
2.) " I rode with Stonewall" by Henry Kyd Douglas The war experiances of the youngest member of jacksons staff
3.) "Andersonville"by MacKinlay Kantor
4.) " The class of 1846' by John Waugh - West Point to Appomattox
5.) " The Collected What If? " by robert Cowley- Collected essays by historians of what could have occurred in (44) historical events if the experianced event had gone the other way
6.)Hitlers Spanish Legion; The Blue division in Russia by gerald Kleinfield
All are excellent for a summers reading
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younglobo
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hello all
I just finished reading "Flags of our Fathers" by James Bradley which of course is the basis for the movie of the same name by Clint Eastwood. The subject is the battle of Iwo Jima and cental characters are the 6 Marines the rasied the American flag on Mount Suribachi and how it changed thier lives. Was a great read found my self lookin at the clock around 2 am and not realizing where the time went . This book gave me great insite on WWII and what the soilders of the pacific theater went through.
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Widow
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I recently read Founding Mothers, by Cokie Roberts. A superb study of the lives of the women of our Revolutionary period, the women whose husbands, sons, and brothers were the Founding Fathers.
There was little information about them, but Roberts' meticulous research found letters and diaries to give us a well-sketched view of how they lived, sacrificed, and suffered while their men were away from home.
All of those women, from Deborah Franklin to Dolley Madison, were well educated. They not only followed the political and military events eagerly, but they wrote letters to each other about them. Some even wrote pamphlets and newspaper articles, going way beyond the traditional roles of women in the 18th century.
Roberts offered her comments and opinions about the events and people, including the double standard. Those women had not only to be strong and resourceful, but also to make major decisions in the absence of their husbands. They had to manage the money, run the business, maintain the house and property, and of course bear and raise the children. Yet the social customs of the day expected them to be obedient and submissive. An impossible contradiction.
This book is NOT a complaint about the treatment of women. Rather, it's a matter-of-fact look at how those particular women lived during those tumultuous times.
Cokie Robers' writing style is informal, almost conversational. I felt that we were chatting in my living room. Or maybe hers, because she lives in Georgetown and I don't.
Patty
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Kentucky_Orphan
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Latest non-civil war reads....
Churchill and America by Martin Gilbert, A book of collected short stories by William Faulkner, and Flags of our Fathers.
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richards
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Younglobo...I just finished "Flags of Our Fathers" also. Very good book. I was like you, I'd start reading and wouldn't realize what time it was. My first love is WWII, but the Civil War is 2nd (Please don't kick me off the board for that!!!)...and I'm just starting to learn more about it, the Civil War that is. Although I did learn some things about WWII that i didn't know in it. I didn't think that I'd like it when they started out with all the guys from a young age, but he did keep me interested in the book and wanting to keep reading. It's amazing at how the perception of things is so different from the truth and the way it really happened.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25th, 2007 08:42 pm |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26th, 2007 12:01 am |
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CleburneFan
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Right now I'm reading the 620-page history-based fiction adventure "Heyday" by Kurt Anderson. He is also known for his book "Turn of the Century." This book is a fast-paced story that takes place in the late 1840s. It is so interesting, I can hardly put it down.
It will take awhile to read because it is so solidly packed with historical background. I mean by this, the author has heavily researched the period, so all the action takes place with that colorful backdrop. Being as I am not particularly familiar with the history of France, England and even New York City at that time, I am finding all that is swirling around the main characters very absorbing.
The stories of four main characters are interwoven and braided throughout the pages. For example, one one day, the writer shows you what each is doing even at the same time of day on different continents. Supposedly, their stories will eventually collide.
I first read about "Heyday" in the Palm Beach Post book review section, but two weeks later it was praised in "Entertainment Weekly." So I decided I had to read it. What a great movie the book would make, so it probably never will be a movie, given how Hollywood prefers blockbusters.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26th, 2007 01:44 am |
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ole
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I'm rediscovering Tom Sawyer. Had forgotten how delightfully entertaining Twain was.
Ole
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