Your favorite history authors?

[Daddy Gee]

I always enjoyed history in school and have recently gotten back into it..

Who are your favorite authors? Ideally, objective/down the middle, but, if not, then leaning a bit to the right..

I am especially interested in America history, and also British to an extent... civil war, too...

 

[dickens821]

Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States... if you are wanting some right leaning stuff.. this would be perfect for you.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

Shelby Foote

Burke Davis

 

[GASOUTHERNVOL]

ambrose bierce
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[myrobbins7]

Michael Savage.

 

[therealUT]

Thucydides

Donald Kagan

 

[OrangeEmpire]

Thucydides

Donald Kagan

You would!

 

[therealUT]

You would!

It was a tough choice between him or Herodotus...:hi:

 

[cotton]

I had the chance to attend a dinner where David McCullough spoke just before the John Adams series aired on HBO. He's a good writer and a better speaker, even if he does have a bias that past generations are inherently better than current.

 

[therealUT]

I had the chance to attend a dinner where David McCullough spoke just before the John Adams series aired on HBO. He's a good writer and a better speaker, even if he does have a bias that past generations are inherently better than current.

I have only read one of McCullough's books, 1776, and I was not impressed. I have heard great things concerning his biography of Adams, however, I doubt I will ever read it.

 

[OptimusPrimerib]

ambrose bierce
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The lexicographer who wrote the Devil's Dictionary?

I like Paul Johnson's Birth of the Modern and Steven Ambrose's D-Day book

 

[The Dude]

Walter Isaacson.

 

[jwells]

Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States... if you are wanting some right leaning stuff.. this would be perfect for you.

Strike that, reverse it.

 

[jwells]

All God's Dangers - I don't remember the author, about 1930s tenant farming

Cornelius Ryan - any of his ww2 books (The Longest Day)

 

[Daddy Gee]

Thanks for the suggestions! :good!:

 

[pa136761]

I would say start with Mel Brooks and go from there...