(Part 2) Best united states biographies according to redditors

Selling those books and promoting that interview (10PM on ABC).

Trump is the publicist Comey dreamed of.

Charlie LeDuff is one of my heroes in the journalism field. He just published "Detroit: An American Autopsy" (which I haven't read yet) but I can highly recommend his previous book "US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man"

Also, Charlie is the star of the all-time top video on /r/videos – where he eats cat food for a story about Meals on Wheels. We need a Charlie in every city!

Amazon link:

https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Loyalty-Truth-Lies-Leadership/dp/1250192455

Two of my more interesting books are:

1. Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite: Lots of stories about deaths in Yosemite, accidental or otherwise
   
   
2. Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon: The better of the two books (the first one being good, this one is just better) and provides stories behind lots and lots of deaths at the Grand Canyon
   
   For some reason, this story reminded me of a guy who fell while taking a picture of one of the hotel / lodges at the Grand Canyon. The guy had his back to the canyon and was taking a picture of the back side of the lodge. He backed up a little, then a little more, then a little more, and then plummeted hundreds of feet to his death.

Watching Morning Joe / multiple shows / sources and getting a real sense these people all know they're living through history. Law professor is coming on and is expected to argue that Cohen is bait, which is fascinating. Perhaps the justice team / FBI / DOJ are purposefully pushing Trump to try to get him to fire Mueller? Looking forward to hearing out the man's reasoning on the show (I'll edit in update after for those unable to watch).

EDIT: Fascinating. Law prof saying the Stormy case is far easier to prove criminal activity than collusion, hence greater exposure to Trump than Mueller investigation (Stormy case led by other departments). Cohen, Stormy could bring down Trump!

EDIT 2: Because these are Trump appointees who signed off on such a difficult-to-attain raid, shows how solid the evidence of criminal activity there is. Trump seriously exposed, vulnerable.

EDIT 3: Wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering are all on the table. Destruction of evidence, perjury, Jesus, it's getting worse in the parsing.

EDIT 4: Paraphrasing. "This is a seismic event." "They're looking for info that has not been made public." "President in extreme legal peril and doesn't have a legal team. Real crisis for him. Needs people equal to the historical [legal] moment."

EDIT 5: Ari Melber: (paraphrasing) "When the FEDS come in the game, loyalty becomes secondary to self preservation."

EDIT 6: Paraphrasing. "President is alone." [Opinion:] State AG's ready to present devastating charges so bad Trump is scared of pulling trigger and beginning spiral he cannot control due to inability to pardon state charges. Regardless, might not be able to act until president gets better, more competent council.

EDIT 7: Paraphrasing, watching multiple programs / news sources. "FEDS working brilliantly. Cutting off escape routes, limiting choices. Trump's glaring lack of competence coming into play, Trump unable to respond and losing power. Tuesday [today] will be defining moment in presidency based on his reaction. Investigation has metastasized. Gone beyond simple collusion investigation, quickly getting beyond Trump capability / competence to respond. Serious legal jeopardy."

EDIT 8: Conservative columnist George Will: "US might bring about regime change in Syria."

EDIT 9: Paraphrasing. President does not understand how attorney-client privilege works. Does not cover criminal behavior. Attorneys cannot break the law, pure and simple. If lawyer committed crimes on behalf of Stormy Daniels case, likelihood it is a pattern is high. Feds combing Cohen's files with fine tooth comb as we speak. Feds learning at geometric rate, seems we passed point of no return. Distraction, firing, confrontation now inevitable.

EDIT 10: Joe: (Paraphrasing) "Very bad news for Trump on all fronts." "Preet's Trump-appointed NY state AG pulled trigger, had serious goods. The AG is a Gulliani guy (Gulliani is mentor). Kills "conspiracy" talking point. "Shows Republicans finally put rule of law, country over party."

EDIT 11:(Paraphrasing) Feds feeling confident, have found probable, indisputable evidence crime(s) committed. Evidence vetted, signed off by relevant authorities, Trump-appointed or not. People who have seen evidence lining up behind law and order. Trump, who relies on loyalty, threats of lawsuits, gag orders, non-disclosure agreements, impotent in face of most powerful, competent, sober prosecutors on the planet. Amateur playing against professionals.

EDIT 12: Trump must beware the Cohen trap

>Mueller does not appear to have a compelling criminal case against Trump for collusion with the Russians. Indeed, Trump remains a “subject,” not a target, an unchanged status after more than a year of investigation and multiple cooperative witnesses. If Trump simply stays where he is, under cover, he could well run out this investigation without a charge. But that depends on him staying there.

>Cohen, however, may be just the right carrion to draw this wolf into the open.

>Like any good wolf trap, this set-up, first and foremost, protects the hunters. By referring the matter, Mueller and Rosenstein protected themselves from criticism of expanding the investigation. At the same time, they brought into the mix U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who Trump interviewed and nominated, as well as a neutral magistrate who signed the search warrant.

>Cohen now could be looking at serious criminal exposure and, if charged with campaign-finance and fraud violations, only two men will be able to deliver him from the quagmire of his own making: Trump and Mueller. The president could ultimately pardon Cohen, while the special counsel could give him a deal. Some at the Justice Department may be counting on Trump’s aggressive tendencies to do the rest. In running to Cohen’s rescue, the president could easily find himself the prize rather than the predator in this conflict.

[Unexplained in what capacity he could be found as the prize]

EDIT 13: Trump (earlier): "This is a pure and simple witch hunt." Trump on Twitter: "A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!"

EDIT 14: Morning Joe: (Paraphrasing) "Mentally unfit man about to make huge decision." Guest: "Footage of Trump's response 'disturbing'." "Will find way to lash out. President is cornered and has to make key decisions at crucial time."

EDIT 15: (Paraphrasing) [D] Tim Caine, Virginia (Morn Joe): Mueller needs room to finish job. / President clearly panicked. / Congress needs to protect Mueller. / Constitutional crisis serious possibility. / re: military action: Prez has no legal authority to wage war without congress. [except for] 2001 authorization, which is blank check to prez (confusing point).

EDIT 16: Ingraham returns, says liberal attempts to 'intimidate those who disagree with them' are 'Stalinist'.

EDIT 17: Opinion: Fascists showing flag. Democracy facing greatest test since McCarthy. Stare down between rule of law and fascism. How broadcasters, newsmakers, journalists, pundits, senators, lawmakers respond to threat to rule of law, today and near this day, will go down in history. Future questions will be: "How did you react to that moment?"

EDIT 18: Top post in T_D is Trump "Attorney–client privilege is dead!" tweet. Pinned: "Mueller Investigating Trump Over $150K Donation From Ukrainian Who Gave Clintons $13 Million"

EDIT 19: (Opinion) Reddit is alive with buzz, many people looking ahead to this day, curious how Trump will react. People expecting more shoes to drop. / reminder Comey book coming out April 17th.

EDIT 20: Kellyanne Conway's husband is trolling Trump on twitter, posts rules on how it works
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/983672662517075968

Preet Bharara responds to Trump: "Long live the crime-fraud exception"
https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/status/983682986242658305

EDIT 21: It seems a mod has removed this post from the megathread for unexplained reasons. Ceasing live updates for now. (Seems it shows up as [DELETED]?)

Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

Edit = I've listed some of the best books I've read on the subject below. Just ask if you want to know anything about them:

[The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans] (http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Third-Reich-Richard-Evans/dp/0143034693/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904650&sr=8-3&keywords=third+reich+at+war)

[The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans] (http://www.amazon.com/Third-Reich-Power-Richard-Evans/dp/0143037900/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904650&sr=8-2&keywords=third+reich+at+war)

[The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans] (http://www.amazon.com/Third-Reich-at-War/dp/0143116711/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904650&sr=8-1&keywords=third+reich+at+war)

[Maus by Art Speigelman] (http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Maus-25th-Anniversary/dp/0679406417/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904780&sr=8-2&keywords=maus)

[Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics by Frederich Spotts] (http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Power-Aesthetics-Frederic-Spotts/dp/1585673455/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904821&sr=8-1&keywords=hitler+power+of+aesthetics)

[Art of the Third Reich by Peter Adam] (http://www.amazon.com/Art-Third-Reich-Peter-Adam/dp/0810919125/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=21WGRYFWN5L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR115%2C160_&refRID=1VRZ6QYR6PG5XXXMYTPN)

[Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower] (http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Empire-Nazis-Ruled-Europe/dp/014311610X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904865&sr=8-1&keywords=hitler%27s+empire)

[State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda by Susan Bachrach and Steven Luckert] (http://www.amazon.com/State-Deception-Power-Nazi-Propaganda/dp/0896047148/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904916&sr=8-1&keywords=state+of+deception+nazi)

[Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris by Ian Kershaw] (http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-1889-1936-Hubris-Ian-Kershaw/dp/0393320359/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1457904967&sr=8-2&keywords=hitler+kershaw)

[Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis by Ian Kershaw] (http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-1936-1945-Nemesis-Ian-Kershaw/dp/0393322521/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=01WJ9WDS06KZ1AX79B3M)

[The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton] (http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Doctors-Medical-Psychology-Genocide/dp/0465049052/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457905061&sr=1-1&keywords=the+nazi+doctors)

[The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg] (http://www.amazon.com/Raul-Hilberg-Destruction-European-third/dp/B008UYLG6K/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457905115&sr=1-4&keywords=destruction+of+the+european+jews)

[Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich] (http://www.amazon.com/Heinrich-Himmler-Peter-Longerich/dp/0199651744/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457905176&sr=1-1&keywords=heinrich+himmler)

[Hitler's Hangman - The Life of Heydrich by Robert Gerwartch] (http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Hangman-The-Life-Heydrich/dp/0300187726/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=51FT1ecdFQL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR104%2C160_&refRID=084WSKT05G4GB1FGE1SY)

[Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 by Saul Friedlander] (http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Germany-Jews-Persecution-1933-1939/dp/0060928786/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457905269&sr=1-3&keywords=nazi+germany+and+the+jews+saul)

[Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945: The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander] (http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Germany-Jews-1939-1945-Extermination/dp/0060930489/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0DQYMK2GMYNVJK794F03)

[Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning] (http://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Solution/dp/0060995068)

[KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann] (http://www.amazon.com/KL-History-Nazi-Concentration-Camps/dp/0374118256/ref=pd_sim_14_6?ie=UTF8&dpID=41yRIhssGkL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR106%2C160_&refRID=0BSM1HJ13NDQ46VKENQK)

Und in diesen 70 Jahren sind die bekannten Operationen fast ausschließlich mit negativen Langzeitfolgen für die globale Allgemeinheit in Verbindung zu setzen. Der weitreichendste Schandfleck ist für mich der Coup d'État 1953 im Iran (mithilfe des MI6).

Zur CIA kann ich zwei Bücher empfehlen:

David Talbot - The Devils Chessboard Englisch/Deutsch - Review der CIA

Alfred McCoy - The Politics of Heroin Englisch

Talbot setzt sich viel mit dem Begründer der CIA Allen Dulles außeinander. Der Mann hat eine faszinierende Geschichte und hat sich insbesondere gegen Ende des zweiten Weltkrieges ein Spionageimperium zusammengestellt.

Bei Alfred McCoy geht es hingegen spezifisch um die CIA Verstrickung in den globalen Opiumhandel um Ihre komplett verdeckten Missionen zu finanzieren. Ausgezeichnet recherchiert.

There's this great biography about Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the biographer goes into the details of what Hitler wanted to turn the churches in Germany into. It seemed at first Hitler was very pro-Christianity, but over time the Catholic churches and the Confessing Churches seemed to turn against him.

He was absolutely not a practicing Catholic (far from it), but his Austrian upbringing was Catholic...

Sure! I'm really glad you asked, I don't get enough people asking :D

Much of what I wrote was from Adrian Goldsworthy's Caesar: Life of a Colossus, seeing as that's the only source I have on hand (and on my kindle, which is on my phone <.<) at the moment. However, I DO (obviously) have the Internet as well, which is WONDERFUL for grabbing stuff from Plutarch (Search for p481 for the quote I used from him!), and even the excerpt that I snagged from Caesar's Gallic Wars is there :D

Hope that helps!

>Both sides hurled stone and lead slingshot at each other. About eighty of these lead balls have been discovered by archaeologists and many have brief, extremely rude messages scratched on them. Examples include “I seek Fulvia’s clitoris”; “I seek Octavian’s arse”; “Octavian has a limp cock”; “Hi, Octavius, you suck dick”; “Loose Octavius, sit on this”; and, rather more feebly, “Lucius is bald.”

• Anthony Everitt

One thought is that his health was in great decline, so he set things up for a seamless transition of power to his successor. However, he unexpectedly recovered. Rather than put his succession plan at risk, his wife assisted him with his suicide by poisoning his figs.

I’ve always enjoyed that account, even if it’s not necessarily accurate.

EDIT: This is not widely believed to be what had happened. I’m just sharing what I remember (it’s been about eight years since I’ve read it) from Anthony Everitt’s Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor.

A History of the American People

or if you are a dirty commie

A People's History.

Honestly they are a yin and yang that do an amazing job of giving you US history in broad strokes.

Other than those Chernow on Washington or just this.

>Both sides hurled stone and lead slingshot at each other. About eighty of these lead balls have been discovered by archaeologists and many have brief, extremely rude messages scratched on them. Examples include “I seek Fulvia’s clitoris”; “I seek Octavian’s arse”; “Octavian has a limp cock”; “Hi, Octavius, you suck dick”; “Loose Octavius, sit on this”; and, rather more feebly, “Lucius is bald.”

• Anthony Everitt

This isn't my specialty, but I have come across it a few times in other reading.

The 22nd Amendment was first proposed in 1947, by a Republican-majority Congress (both House and Senate). The Republican's were able to sway anti-New Deal Dixiecrats (Southern Democrats) to their side and got the proposed amendment through the House with less than 2 hours of debate. Interestingly, one of the few Northern Democrats to vote with the majority was John F. Kennedy, who was in his first term as a representative and whose father had fallen out with FDR. The Senate debated the amendment for 5 days, but ultimately passed it.

According to historian David Kyvig, 18 state legislatures rushed to ratify the amendment, with virtually no public participation in the debate.^1

By 1951, the required three-fourths of the state legislatures had ratified it.

According to historian James MacGregor Burns (who admittedly is known for being a little left leaning):
> At the time, an amendment limiting presidents to two terms in office seemed an effective way to invalidate Roosevelt's legacy, to discredit this most progressive of presidents.

Thinking more on this, I'm not exactly sure I agree with Burns. I think the inspiration for Congress to initiate the amendment could have come from an attempt to discredit FDR, but Congress does not pass amendments by themselves, they require a super-majority of states to ratify them. Considering that Truman (who was the Democratic incumbent and had been FDR's VP during his 4th term) had just been reelected, it seems unlikely that 3/4 of the states would vote to snub FDR.

Instead, it probably had more to do with converting an unwritten rule into a written one.

The rule started with George Washington, who could have been King of America, but chose instead to follow the example of Cincinnatus and serve for only as long as he felt his country needed him (which ended up being 2 terms).^2

The only person who had tried to defy that tradition and seek a third term prior to FDR was Ulysses S. Grant; however, he was denied his party's nomination.^3 Teddy Roosevelt also technically sought a third term, but he only ran for office twice, since his first term came after McKinley was assassinated.

Even FDR hesitated (or at least tried to make it seem like he did) before running for a third term, sending a letter to the 1940 Democratic convention, that he would only run if he were drafted, and encouraging the delegates to vote for whomever they pleased. James Burns argues that this was just a tactic FDR used, as at the convention as immediately following the announcement of FDR's message, the loudspeaker screamed "We want Roosevelt... The world wants Roosevelt!"^4

The Republicans campaigned against a 3rd and 4th term in 1940 and 1944, respectively; however, FDR was too much of a political juggernaut to be stopped in the elections. Ultimately he was only deposed (like a king) by his own death.

Therefore, the Congress, which has historically always been weary of the president, acted to ensure that nobody else would get the chance to serve more than two terms. This would also help explain why some Democrats voted for the amendment, seeing as the shoe could just have easily been on the other foot with a Republican president.

1. David Kyvig, Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995
   
   
2. Ron Chernow, [Washington, A Life] (http://www.amazon.com/Washington-A-Life-Ron-Chernow/dp/0143119966)
   
   
3. H.W. Brands, [The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Saved-Union/dp/0307475158)
   
   
4. James MacGregor Burns, [Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox] (http://www.amazon.com/Roosevelt-1882-1940-James-MacGregor-Burns-ebook/dp/B007GSU1BM)
   
   edit: added more details and sources

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

Because it shows an undercurrent of nazi-sympathizing cryptofascism that pervaded the US / Western intelligence community from the importation of 1800 ish nazi ss scientists into our milititary research intelligence programs via project paperclip to operation artichoke and the mind control experiments of mkultra. Allen Dulles was the head of OSS which became CIA. It shows how the Dulles brothers used a shell corporation united fruit company to move nazi money around and fund blackops projects; a practice that's still used by todays neocon fascist knights of malta doubleagents in the CIA to sell drugs, launder money, maintain pedo networks and exfiltrate human sex slaves around the planet through international freemasons. (actually not sure if this freemason connection in this particular book, or if it jsut hints at it--I could be thinking of "Essential Mae Brussell: Fascism in America") Dulles was a real bastard, but it's not just him--he started a whole league of bushlings that looked up to him and exalt him as some kind of hero-spy-pirate of the aristocratic elite.

Truman created the CIA in 1947 by signing the National Security Act into law.

The Act was created in the aftermath of World War II and in anticipation of the emerging Cold War. It consolidated the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment. It also created the Department of the Air Force from the division that was formerly a part of the U.S. Army. The National Military Establishment, later renamed the “Department of Defense” in 1949, was headed by the Secretary of Defense. The National Military Establishment began operations on September 18, 1947 – the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense. The Act also created the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the National Security Council, both of which are a central part of national security operations today.

Finally the Act created the CIA. The same provision of the Act that created the CIA also specifically stated that the Agency would have “no police, subpoena, or law enforcement powers or internal security functions.”

Ambassador David KE Bruce warned Truman that creation of CIA would be an American gestapo. Truman did not heed the warning. It was, and is, in fact an American gestapo.

On November 22 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated in a coup led by the CIA.

On December 22, 1963, exactly one month after the CIA led the coup that murdered JFK, President Truman published an open letter in the Washington Post, entitled "Limit CIA Role To Intelligence, stating:

"I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency—CIA. At least, I would like to submit here the original reason why I thought it necessary to organize this Agency during my Administration, what I expected it to do and how it was to operate as an arm of the President.
...
For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas. I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations. Some of the complications and embarrassment I think we have experienced are in part attributable to the fact that this quiet intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue—and a subject for cold war enemy propaganda.
...
But there are now some searching questions that need to be answered. I, therefore, would like to see the CIA be restored to its original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President, and that whatever else it can properly perform in that special field—and that its operational duties be terminated or properly used elsewhere. We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.”

Former CIA director Allen Dulles responded to Truman’s open letter by visiting Truman to pressure him to retract it. When Truman refused Dulles lied and spread the word that Truman had disowned the letter. Then Dulles had the letter pulled from later editions of the Post.

On January 17, 1961, three days before JFK's inauguration, President Eisenhower went on TV to warn the public and the incoming president:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist."

However, Eisenhower spent 8 years enabling the MIC that he warned against, really more of an admission than a warning. He essentially built a hand grenade, pulled the pin, tossed it at JFK, and muttered "look out."

His CIA chief was Allen Dulles, an absolute monster. (Highly recommended book about him: https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174).
His Secretary of State was John Foster Dulles, a fascist capitalist cut out of the same cloth as his brother Allen. His Vice President was Nixon, who was a creature built by the Dulles Brothers and Prescott Bush (father of George HW Bush).

Eisenhower and Truman were hideous corrupt presidents. Watch Oliver Stone's "Untold History of the United States" for more on how badly they damaged the world. Their actions doomed JFK, the last real president of the 99%.

I'm surprised this picture exists. Che was notorious for shunning even the most benign expressions of wealth or leisure after the revolution because he didn't want to be viewed as distinct from the average Cuban.

Edit: All I've ever done is read Jon Lee Anderson's 700-page biography of him and specialize in Latin American politics at the university level, so no credibility here, reddit!

It doesn't matter if you like or dislike Che Guevara or Fidel Castro; my comment had nothing to do with that. Stalin lived frugally also, and he was a complete sociopath.

You could say the same about Maus, but I think it gives a good look at the Holocaust, despite using mice and cats to depict the Jews and Nazis.

You might want to read this opinion piece of hist. His book is about the current state of Detroit and his families relationship with it. He moved back to the area as an adult. He goes through the whole sorry state in detail and ends up quiting his newspaper job because the managers changed one of his stories to be more pro-management anti-labor than it was. He talks about his families experience with the Detroit riots and than discovers that his grandfather "passed" as white when he moved to Detroit from Louisiana.

Fun tidbit, I always assumed the term jail bate was some modern internet slang until I read The Good War a collection of stories from WW2 and one guy used the term 'jail bate' so it dates back to at least the 40s.

He's also written a few books.

Detroit: An American Autopsy
http://amzn.com/1594205345

According to numerous Republican accounts (Priebus, McMaster, Bannon, Graham, Porter, Cohn and Conway) in Woodward's book [1], seems like everyone has to say the same thing a staggering number of times because the President seems to forget it each time they meet... The next day. So it's good you're used to repeating yourself, your president needs you to.

[1] Fear: Trump in the White House https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501175513/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_DkeRBb725MTFB

> Any recommendations on where to start with American history?

Depends on what you like. If you like philosophy read Common Sense and The Federalist Papers. They basically lay out why Americans think and act the way they do.

If you like characters and battles then start right with the American Revolution itself. 1776 by David McCullough is without a doubt the best book on the Revolution. It's a bit slow at first, but becomes very immersive as it goes on.

If you really like the Revolutionary War then pick up Baron Von Steuben's Revolutionary War Drill Manual for insight as to how the battles were fought from a technical standpoint. It talks about battle formations, how soldiers should carry their muskets, the responsibilities of each rank, and more. This isn't really required reading for understanding American history, but if the Revolutionary War captivates you then you'll like this too.

the F-117 was basically designed with a slide-ruler, pen and paper with very little computer power behind it. Most of it is a series of 2d renderings put together. They literally had engineers designing and building them on the floor right next to the mechanics and welders and shit. The Skunk Works were an impressive bunch.

http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003

Go read it, its amazing.

Also, Clarence "Kelly" Johnson has some insight into it with his book, too.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0874744911

Check out The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot. An excellent book that looks at Allen Dulles and the CIA and how the dealt with Kennedy.

I don't read a lot of action-y graphic novels, so I can't really help you with finding more stuff like Watchmen, Wanted, etc. (However, you have to promise me you'll read Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.)

But I can recommend more laid-back graphic novels if you're ever in the mood for something different! Give American Born Chinese, Anya's Ghost, or Daytripper a shot sometime.

Persepolis and Maus are also graphic novel must reads, no matter what genre you usually favor. And Scott Pilgrim was super popular recently, with great cause.

And, if you're willing to settle down for a long haul and read your comics backwards, I really can't recommend Fullmetal Alchemist enough. 27 volumes, but it's the best action series I've ever read and one of my all-time favorites of any sort of media. Check out a stack of it from the library and you'll fly right through it. That's what I did one afternoon, and my time has never been better spent.

Edit: More suggestions, typos.

Rubicon by Tom Holland is perhaps the most popular of recent histories. It's a very well written history of the fall of the Republic. Holland has a particularly modern style. I recommend it.

Swords Against the Senate covers roughly the same period, but focuses on the influence and actions of the Roman Army during the period. Slightly more "scholarly", but equally interesting, particularly if you have an interest in the Roman military.

Anthony Everritt's much lauded biographies of famous Romans includes the excellent Cicero and Augustus, both of also deal with the autumnal years of the Republic, but obviously in the context of these two great men and the events that they lived through. I think Cicero is perhaps one of the best biographies I've ever read. Everitt also wrote a bio of Hadrain, which I have yet to get to, and the fascinating sounding The Rise of Rome, to be published later this year.

On a more broad scale, there is Robin Lane Fox's best selling The Classical Age, which covers Greek and Roman history from the earliest times to the Fall of the Empire.

Finally, Emperors Don't Die in Bed sounds exactly like what you're looking for. It's not the cheapest book, but it does offer potted biographies of the the most famous Roman Emperors and their down-fall. Fascinating stuff!

More?

In case anyone was wondering which book by James Comey they were referring to...

if you want to learn more about genghis khan I would highly recommend this book http://www.amazon.com/Genghis-Khan-Making-Modern-World/dp/0609610627

Bone

Akira

Mouse guard

Persepolis

Scott Pilgrim

Swamp thing by Alan Moore

Judge Dredd: The cursed earth uncensored

Nemesis the warlock

The league of extra ordinary gentlemen

Hellboy

Zot! by Scott McCloud

V for vendetta

Nimona

The sandman

Maus

American Flagg

Bean world

Dan Dare by Garth Ennis

Flintstones by Mark Russell

Giant days

Groo

The incal

Jonah Hex

The nam

Queen and Country

Rork

Usagi yojimbo

Nausicaa

Che killed people. He killed a lot of people. Many of them innocent. He also sacrificed a lot to fight for a cause he believed in. A lot of people blindly idolize him with out realizing the atrocities he committed. Many in the Cuban exile community despise him because he represents everything that went wrong with Cuba's revolution or because he ordered the execution of one of their loved ones.

Regardless of your stance on Che, he is a compelling figure. I highly recommend everyone do some research on him and form your own opinion. I recently read Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life and it changed my perception of the man. I went in thinking very positively about Che and came out with a much better understanding for why he is so reviled. I also better understand why he became the symbol that he is to this day.

There is a phenomenal book out there about Bonhoeffer called Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. I highly recommend it. The book has a bunch of primary sources, including many from Bonhoeffer himself.

That.

Also if you're interested, there is a really interesting read on this particular subject in Studs Turkel's: The Good War. Which is mandatory reading for WWII enthusiasts IMO. It is simply a collection of first hand accounts of the period from the POV of soldiers, red cross employees, rosey-the-rivettors, etc. Fascinating.

Towards the end there is a transcript of a conversation with one of the physicists from the Manhattan Project whose job it was to interview Nazi Scientists on their atomic projects.

https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174

https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakable-Why-Died-Matters/dp/1439193886/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Americas-Invisible-Government/dp/1608190064

https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081

https://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446


Those are the books that you should read.

Here are also some good resources:

Paul Craig Roberts worked in the Reagan administration: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/

This is a good multi-part article excerpted from one of the books above: http://whowhatwhy.org/2013/09/16/part-1-mr-george-bush-of-the-central-intelligence-agency/

Michael Glennon’s abstract about his book: http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Glennon-Final.pdf

A PDF of the “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” book if you don’t want to buy it: http://resistir.info/livros/john_perkins_confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man.pdf

This is when the reporter asked Bill Clinton about Mena: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDMktUYvC7k

Article on the coup attempt in France: http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/10/20/jfk-assassination-plot-mirrored-in-1961-france-part-1/

All of whowhatwhy.org is very good. There is probably a lot of good information there most haven’t heard of. The main guy, Russ Baker, is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist.

Bet you didn’t know that Bob Woodward was a state intelligence asset/disinformationist? https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/710466456941686784

All part of the record…. Enjoy.

yeah, if you believe the book 1776 many of the soldiers in the revolutionary war were compelled into service, experienced horrible privation throughout the entire campaign (scarce food, unclean water, some didn't even have boots in the winter), and had to trade the land they were granted as renumeration for their service just to get a ride back home. If you believe Howard Zinn lower and middle class men have a long history of something hard not to call oppression.

Here you go my dude. Normally I would hit you up with that Audiobookbay link because screw paying for things but I couldn't find it on there so I had to start an audible trial to listen to it. Really good book though.

Anything by Alan Moore. Promethea is a personal fave, but might not be the best place to start. Top Ten is also very good if cop drama overlaid with some super-hero stuff sounds appealing. Watchman is a cornerstone of the form, but you will definitely appreciate it more if/when you have a fair bit of 'capes & tights' superhero work under your belt.

Blankets is just stunning. I've bought it 3 times already and have the new hardcover edition on perorder.

Stardust is another great one by Neil Gaiman. It's also unique in that if you enjoy the story you can experience it in 3 different, but all very good, forms. The original comic, the prose novel, and the film all work quite well and give a nice window into what bits a pieces work better in each form.

Of course no comic list is complete without Maus and Understanding Comics.

Hmm, I've started reading a biography on Che, and don't know too much about him, so I can't really have an opinion yet.

I thought Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life was an excellent and extremely thorough biography. I really think it's worth reading The Motorcycle Diaries as well just to read his motivation to become the revolutionary icon.

The difficulty of discussing Christianity and the Holocaust, directly, is that relatively few people, even within Germany, were truly aware of the extent of the Holocaust until near the end of the war. As a result, you will find it a little more difficult to find information directly related to that topic. Christianity's relationship to Naziism, on the other hand, does have some more readily available information.

While a good portion of Germany's Christian population either supported, or at least failed to oppose, Naziism, that is not universally the case. You might be interested in a biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and theologian who strongly opposed Hitler and Naziism, and was eventually executed by them. He was moderately known at the time, but became extremely influential in the past few decades or so.

While it's an extremely large volume, and not directly related, you might find some useful information in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". It's very comprehensive, and does talk a bit about the Christian Democrat party's opposition to Nazism early on, only to eventually fail to mount any meaningful opposition as Hitler began rising to power.

Finally, while I don't know of any specific books on the topic, you probably will want to look into the influence of Martin Luther (specifically his antisemitism) on Germany, Naziism, and Hitler. This is topic that has been widely written about, to my knowledge, so there should be an abundance of information out there on it.

You might be surprised about how liberals- even those who experienced discrimination and setbacks- responded to the chance to whoop nazi ass. Check out Studs Terkel's "The Good War." It's the book World War Z's format is based on, a bunch of stories told by people who were in the war.

I think your observations about "the greatest generation" and Reddit's reaction to them ignore the fact that that phrase is only used in reference to the war. Seriously, outside of that we call them "old people."

If you haven't already pre-ordered the book you can do so here

It's not incredibly in-depth, but I quite enjoyed Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Overall, an entertaining and informative read.

http://www.amazon.com/Augustus-Life-Romes-First-Emperor/dp/0812970586/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320917363&sr=1-1

Highly recommended, a little embellished at times but an excellent read

Random selection of some of my favorites to help you expand your horizons:

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan is a great introduction to scientific skepticism.

Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris is a succinct refutation of Christianity as it's generally practiced in the US employing crystal-clear logic.

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt is the best biography of one of the most interesting men in history, in my personal opinion.

Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski is a jaw-dropping book on history, journalism, travel, contemporary events, philosophy.

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson is a great tome about... everything. Physics, history, biology, art... Plus he's funny as hell. (Check out his In a Sunburned Country for a side-splitting account of his trip to Australia).

The Annotated Mona Lisa by Carol Strickland is a thorough primer on art history. Get it before going to any major museum (Met, Louvre, Tate Modern, Prado, etc).

Not the Impossible Faith by Richard Carrier is a detailed refutation of the whole 'Christianity could not have survived the early years if it weren't for god's providence' argument.

Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman are six of the easier chapters from his '63 Lectures on Physics delivered at CalTech. If you like it and really want to be mind-fucked with science, his QED is a great book on quantum electrodynamics direct from the master.

Lucy's Legacy by Donald Johanson will give you a really great understanding of our family history (homo, australopithecus, ardipithecus, etc). Equally good are Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade and Mapping Human History by Steve Olson, though I personally enjoyed Before the Dawn slightly more.

Memory and the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel gives you context for all the Bible stories by detailing contemporaneous events from the Levant, Italy, Greece, Egypt, etc.

After the Prophet by Lesley Hazleton is an awesome read if you don't know much about Islam and its early history.

Happy reading!

edit: Also, check out the Reasonable Doubts podcast.

From my understanding, they have small, concealable radar observable popups. And that fact highlights the difficulty of defeating radar return. Per Kelly Johnson's book, More Than My Share of it all. He made a comment that if a surface resulted in a radar return the size of the return was irrelevant to the size of that reflecting surface. I have no idea what that means but, with these small popups, the aircraft is clearly seen on radar. Another reason why stealth is so hard to duplicate for other countries.

I do know that what took the F-117 to the F-35 was nothing less than high use of supercomputing.

Also, There are optimal angles for the lowest cross-section. This fact is preprogrammed into the flight plan and usually in autopiloted control to avoid variances.

Today I've noticed the bots are out with "omg Comey found out on the View that he's been referred for criminal charges!" and "It's too bad for Comey that his book is such a bust, I was going to buy it but since no one likes it I won't waste my money."

Going hard today.

Edited to add: Comey's book is currently #1 on Amazon

Trailers for the lazy!

Armadillo

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford


Avatar: The Last Airbender

Battle for Marja (Documentary)

Black Hawk Down

Bontoc Eulogy (Couldn't find a trailer?)

WAR (Book)

The Dark Knight

Dear Zachary

De onfatsoenlijke huisvrouw (The Indecent Housewife - Dutch Film)

The Departed

Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel - German Film)

Donnie Darko (A personal favorite!)

Drive

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


LOST Finale (Clip)

Food, Inc. (Documentary)

Gattaca

The Grey

Gummo

The Hurt Locker

King Corn (Documentary)

The Last Mimzy

Life and Debt

La Vida es Bella (Life is Beautiful) (Full movie... Is the right one?)

Lola

Lost in Translation

The Tillman Story (Documentary)

Melancholia

Memento

Mulholland Drive

Persepolis

Primer

Repo! the Genetic Opera (A rock-opera, not a classic opera.)

Requim for a Dream

Restrepo (Documentary)

Shutter Island

Spetters

The Truman Show

The Virgin Suicides

Visioneers

The Wall (I've no idea if this is the right one...)

WALL-E (My favorite animation... Besides Brave)

Zeitgeist

I can give you a short list of personal favorites, books that I consider both informative and extremely interesting / entertaining to read. As you'll see I prefer memoirs and eyewitness accounts to sweeping historical overviews of the war.

With the Old Breed, E.B. Sledge. Personal memoir of the author's experience as a marine machine gunner in the Pacific war, specifically the campaigns on Peleliu and Okinawa. Sledge is a marvelous writer with prose I'd describe as "Hemingwayesque", a real compliment. Grueling, appalling, human, his account does a great job of sketching in the personalities of his fellow marines.

"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II, Studs Terkel. This is the book that World War Z is aping, but the actual book is a far more gripping read. Terkel sat down for personal interviews with 121 survivors of the war, Germans, Japanese, British, Canadian as well as American.

Band Of Brothers, Stephen Ambrose. Now made famous by the TV series, the story of E Company's recruitment, training and ultimate combat experience during and after the Normandy invasion is as intense and eye-opening as it sounds.

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, Leo Marks. Marks was a cryptographer working in London for the SOE (special operations executive, the group responsible for running much of "The Resistance" throughout occupied Europe, North Africa and Asia). He's a very funny guy, a self-professed coward, but the book portrays his deeply heartfelt concern for the well-being of the agents he was sending behind enemy lines. His codes, and methods of transmitting them, could be the only thing saving them from capture by the Gestapo. All too often, they weren't enough. "If you brief an agent on the Tuesday and three days later his eyes are taken out with a fork, it hastens the aging process," he writes.

Stalingrad, Anthony Beevor. When you start to read about the Eastern Front, you realize that much of the conventional western perspective of WWII in Europe is based on the comparatively minor engagements in Italy and France. France lost 350,000 civilians to the war, The Soviet Union lost 15-20 million. Considered purely from the POV of total casualties and total armed forces committed, WWII was primarily an engagement between Germany and the Soviet Union throughout Eastern Europe, with a number of smaller actions in the western countries. Anyhow, the story of the brutal, grinding siege of Stalingrad, the point where the German tide definitively turned, is a must-read.

Homage To Catalonia, George Orwell. This is Orwell's personal account of his service fighting on the Republican side against fascists during the Spanish Civil War from 1936-37. Basically, this was the war before the war, as described by one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Incidentally Hemingway's novel For Whom The Bell Tolls is a fairly accurate, very powerful portrayal of a different view of the same war.

>The Allies were in bad shape before 1941 even with America bankrolling nearly the entire pre-41 Allied effort on credit (34.1 billion in goods went entirely unpaid for), completely neutralizing your bullshit attempt at revisionist history.

" There is a perception that lend-lease aid was offered by the US out of the goodness of its heart. However, this version does not hold up upon closer inspection. First of all, this was because of something called “reverse lend-lease.” Even before the Second World War had ended, other nations began sending Washington essential raw materials valued at nearly 20% of the materials and weapons the US had shipped overseas. "

" And that was indeed the case, as lend-lease proved to be an inexhaustible source of wealth for many American corporations. In fact, the United States was the only country in the anti-Hitler coalition to reap significant economic dividends from the war. "

https://www.globalresearch.ca/history-of-world-war-ii-americas-was-providing-military-aid-to-the-ussr-while-also-supporting-nazi-germany/5449378

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> By the time the US joined Europe had been getting it's ass kicked for nearly a decade, with Germany occupying demilitarized zones as early as 1936 in the Rhineland, and forcefully annexing Austria in 1938.

These were non-militaristic takeovers, meaning that Europe was not getting their ass kicked. Has the USA been getting their ass kicked since Russia took over Crimea? I would say in no way shape or form, but the situation is the same. Land that at one point belonged to "country A" with a population that is ethnically from "country A" being taken back by that country with a non-military takeover.

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> By 1945, the UK was spending 52% of it's GDP on the war effort, whereas the United States was spending 79% of GDP on the war effort. In 1945, the UK GDP was hovering around 10 billion dollars. The US GDP in 1945 was appx 2.33 trillion.

No one is saying that the US did not spend a lot of money on WW2, after all the saying is "WW2 was won with British intelligence, US steel, and Russian blood" however, " There’s a reason that Americans often refer to WWII as “the good war,” as evidenced, for example, in the title of the book by the famous American historian Studs Terkel: The Good War: An Oral History of World War II (1984). With unabashed cynicism he quoted, “While the rest of the world came out bruised and scarred and nearly destroyed, we came out with the most unbelievable machinery, tools, manpower, money … The war was fun for America. I’m not talking about the poor souls who lost sons and daughters. But for the rest of us the war was a hell of a good time.”

Just because the US spent a lot of money on WW2 does not mean that it was for nothing.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/history-of-world-war-ii-americas-was-providing-military-aid-to-the-ussr-while-also-supporting-nazi-germany/5449378

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Saying the Americans saved the world is completely ignoring the rest of the Allies involved in the war. The US could not have won WW2 without the help of the allies. 6 of the top 10 bloodiest battles in history took place between the Germans and the Russians in WW2

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/deadliest-battles-in-human-history.html

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While obviously D-Day was an important point in the war, but Russia had been asking the US, British and Canadians to open up a second front for 2 years prior to D-day. It was not until the Russians already had the Germans retreating that a second front was finally opened up on the West. In fact, the Russians took Berlin by themselves because the rest of the Allies had not advanced far enough compared to the Russians.

https://www.rbth.com/arts/2014/06/06/how_the_ussr_aided_d-day_35805

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Not everyone in the US felt the same way about the Nazi's either. Ford played a large part in the war effort for Nazi's. "Ford vehicles were crucial to the revolutionary Nazi military strategy of blitzkrieg. Of the 350,000 trucks used by the motorized German Army as of 1942, roughly one-third were Ford-made. " "While Ford Motor enthusiastically worked for the Reich, the company initially resisted calls from President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill to increase war production for the Allies."

"In 1938 Ford was awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest Nazi honour that could be given to a non-German."

https://www.thenation.com/article/ford-and-fuhrer/

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Obviously the US played a large role in WW2, I am not saying that they didnt, but the narrative that the US was the savior is definitely not an educated take on the entirety of WW2.

Detroit: An American Autopsy. I grew up in Detroit and put in a hold request for this book a few weeks ago. There was a wait list, but I finally got it this week. Checked it out one day before Detroit filed for bankruptcy.

Turning out to be an engaging read so far. 4/5 would recommend.

(Who is responsible for) "the police officers with broken computers in their squad cars, firefighters with holes in their boots, ambulances that arrive late, a city that can't keep its lights on and leaves its vacant buildings to the arsonist's match, a state government that allows corpses to stack up in the morgue, multinational corporations that move away and leave poisoned fields behind, judges who let violent criminals walk the streets, school stewards who steal the children's milk money, elected officials who loot the city, automobile executives who couldn't manage a grocery store, or Wall Street grifters who destroyed the economy and left the nation's children with a burden of debt while they partied it up in Southampton?" -from Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff.

If you think its as simple as Unions=bad, GOP=bad...I HIGHLY suggest reading Charlie LeDuff's book on Detroit.
Another incredible article here regarding the decline of Detroit.

It really can't be blamed on the party. It's the people in charge, that have a choke hold on the government. It's so unbelievably corrupt -- really -- compared to just about anywhere.

This book is good: Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff.

> Also, there is still to this day no evidence that he was assassinated by someone else other than Lee Harvey Oswald and furthermore there is no evidence as to what some other suspected killer's motive was.

. . . Seriously?
https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276166
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_and_the_Unspeakable

EDIT: should have refreshed before posting, someone beat me to it with even more sources. I was just so shocked to hear such a credulous point of view, in this sub of all places, in 20-freaking-16. Pick up a book, indeed...

Dis Book Right Ya

Thanks for posting. VERY interesting read. I'm not the most versed on the details of either shooting and I'm also a bit weak on my CIA history. I found these two texts in the comments. Has anyone read them?

https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174

https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakable-Why-Died-Matters/dp/1439193886

Charlie LeDuff is the only reason why I watch Fox 2 news. His brand of journalism is what's needed in these type of stories.

For those of you unaware of him, PLEASE check out his book [Detroit - An American Autopsy] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0143124463) or check out his Fox 2 page

It wasn't only the Dems - everyone had a hand in the destruction of Detroit.

Politics and politicians, business, unions, common and uncommon criminal activity of all sorts, lethargy, drugs, etc.


Great links for books on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/Detroit-American-Autopsy-Charlie-LeDuff/dp/0143124463/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475100152&sr=8-1&keywords=detroit


https://www.amazon.com/Once-Great-City-Detroit-Story/dp/1476748381/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=W5F6R9CN52BCGKWQSH5H

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

I really enjoyed 1776 by David McCullough. Did an excellent job conveying just how precarious the revolution was at its beginning and how at so many points one different decision could have altered things drastically, also just a great read.

1.) Answers will vary depending on what "wing" of libertarianism someone adheres to. I'll just focus on two.

Minarchists (Ron Paul/Gary Johnson types) would argue some level of taxation is necessary to maintain an exponentially smaller government than exists now. This vision of government would operate essentially only defense, courts, and police. Minarchists will generally argue for a simplistic consumption tax or flat tax of some sort. Some argue for limited tariffs instead so our citizens are not directly taxed at any point. Their approach is debated internally, but united in that the net taxation would be dramatically reduced. In this world, government continues to collect revenue and spend it on its very limited endeavors - not much has changed besides the scale of collections and operations.

Anarcho-capitalists (Rothbard types) would say that you cannot be logically consistent in arguing the inefficiency of government and moral issue of taxation, which minarchists do argue, and then still accept its role in society. These types will argue for a peaceful transition to an entirely pure market based economy via the privatization of all government services. They point that government services already have private equivalents which are always more efficient: Fedex/UPS vs USPS, government schools vs. private schools, privately operated toll roads, private airport security (which is already the norm in some other developed countries), private binding arbitration, etc. This includes regulatory bodies: NSF and Underwriters Laboratories are real examples of private sector regulators where companies pay to have their products evaluated and approved based on their objective third party standards. So, to answer your question: in their world, government doesn't operate at all and instead all interaction is through voluntary contracts in the market.

Minarchists are usually somewhat sympathetic to the anarcho-capitalism view, but will say it is fantasy because the general populace already views government as a wholly benevolent entity. Personally, I generally believe in anarcho-capitalism and do believe government as we know it is obsolete and unnecessary in the modern world. In the 20th century capitalism brought us a previously unfathomable increase in the standard of living while the institution of government meanwhile slaughtered hundreds of millions in the name of communism, World War I and II, etc. But, off my soap box for now.

2.) This is hard to answer concisely, so I'll instead recommend three books.

The first is FDR: New Deal or Raw Deal. It reviews objective data to argue that FDR & friends were not the godsent savior of the world that government schools teach. The, very oversimplified, conclusion of this book is that FDR terrorized the market with incredibly arbitrary and tyrannical intrusions during his tenure and prolonged what could have been a comparatively simple market correction into the "Great Depression" as we know it. After his death, it argues, the market was returned to a state of normalcy and we were given the incredible boom that followed the end of World War II. If you're really interested in the topic, I suggest giving it a read. It's rather dry, but very interesting since it goes against everything we're taught.

The second book is to review how the government, via the Federal Reserve, intrudes into the economy by manipulating interest rates and thus exacerbating the natural cyclical nature of the market. The Austrian School of Economics, the economic theory that is most often associated with all of libertarianism, argues this is where the Great Depression and, more recently, Great Recession, came from. An easy introduction to this topic is End the Fed. Its, very oversimplified, conclusion is that the Federal Reserve artificially stimulates demand by fixing interest rates below what they would be in an untainted market. This then leads to overconsumption (the bubble) in a whatever area of the economy the government decides is politically fashionable to push at the time.

The third book is to bring in a modern context about the government's role in the 2008 crisis: Meltdown. It applies the Austrian Economic view onto the most modern economic crisis. It's writing style is much more interesting than the first two books I offered and, frankly, it's just more interesting since it happened in our lifetime. The principles can also be applied to the Great Depression and it also references the mistakes made in dealing with it as well since we basically followed the same path. Its, very oversimplified, conclusion is that the government is wholly responsible for the 2008 crisis by setting up an environment that incentivized overconsumption. By violating basic economic laws, it argues, the government created a situation that was doomed to fail and nothing could have stopped it from all crashing down.

3.) To be logically consistent, yes. Heavily regulating economic activities will inevitably spill over into regulating social activities. As a small example, the IRS selectively targeted conservative groups because of their views and sought to destroy them. By having this economic intrusion into the market (the entirety of the IRS as an institution), the government attempted to purge these groups of their basic human right to self-expression.

4.) I do not believe in it. Simply by being born in a physical location does not enslave you into what a former generation believed was your "role" in society. As a small example, you are in no way morally obligated to pay for the inactivity of senior citizens through Social Security (or whatever similar program your country has if you are outside of the US). To say that you are because FDR & friends, before you were ever born, decided to deploy Social Security as a cash grab is sheer nonsense. You are not a slave to some ivory tower politician(s)'s whimsical views on what your "lawful role" in society is supposed to be.

edit: formatting, oops.

Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff. It's phenomenal.

https://www.amazon.com/Detroit-American-Autopsy-Charlie-LeDuff/dp/0143124463

Uhm... Where have you read that? Strictly speaking, Caesar was a war criminal in more than one aspect, but I can't recall ever reading about him doing that. Crassus did, however.

Caesar is remembered today in large parts because of Shakespeare, who took a liking to him. But more to the point, because he was an outstanding general, a decent politician and a major figure in the turbulent years of 1st century BCE Rome. I wouldn't say that he's one of the only rulers who is remembered either, but he's without doubt one of the most well-known.

If you're interested in learning more about the man I'd suggest you pick up Adrian Goldsworthy's Caesar: Life of a Colossus, as well as a have a read through of Caesar's own De Bello Gallico, available online.

I love Genghis Khan, but I honestly found the film rather boring; it was very meandering and uneventful. It was a case of style over substance, and didn't touch on nearly enough of what he did and what happened to him. The ending is extremely blunt and shallow, there are a number of plot points that are unresolved, and then they just scroll a few pages of text over the screen to try to explain a few things away.

If you want to know about Genghis Khan, I recommend Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. If you want to watch a movie loosely based on Genghis Khan that focuses on war and a lackluster love story, watch Mongol.

Depends on what you're asking about specifically.

The comic book series? Movie?

• Before Watchmen: A lot of people shit on it just because it's not the original 12-issue series. I see a lot of complaining to the extent that it's just 'not as good' but no solid reasoning as to why. I have every issue. I haven't read any of them yet (except about 4-5 pages of the first Moloch, and I liked it). I should get to them at some point so I can offer a solid opinion on them, but as of right now I'd say 'well, it's more of those characters doing things before the events outlined in the main series.'
  
  
• V For Vendetta: Another Alan Moore project, so the writing is similar/familiar. Also became a film, as you may know.
  
  
• From Hell: Another Alan Moore project. Featuring an investigator hunting down Jack The Ripper. Was also a decent film.
  
  
• Sleeper: It's a grown-up approach to superheroes, much like Watchmen.
  
  
• The Dark Knight Returns: Agreed to be a lot like Watchmen in a lot of respects.
  
  Most of this is also included in this article on io9.
  
  Looking at the comments, someone suggests Maus, and, really, that's not a good suggestion in relation to Watchmen. I'd highly recommend reading Maus but not because it has anything to do with Watchmen. It's an illustrated retelling of Art Spiegelman's father's memories of surviving the Holocaust, peppered with Art's problems in dealing with his father. It's a very good series. I even recommended it to my mother. She loved it. You can get both volumes in one book.
  
  EDIT: Here's another article suggesting similar comics.

ah, I see. well let me cite some shit, too.

• http://anti-imperialism.com/2014/02/05/debunking-the-che-guevara-was-racist-lie/
  
  
• On massacres: Biographer Jon Lee Anderson, (who spent 5 years studying the topic) has addressed this matter in a PBS forum stating ...
  
  • "I have yet to find a single credible source pointing to a case where Che executed an innocent. Those persons executed by Guevara or on his orders were condemned for the usual crimes punishable by death at times of war or in its aftermath: desertion, treason or crimes such as rape, torture or murder."
    
• http://www.amazon.com/Che-Guevara-A-Revolutionary-Life/dp/080214411X - if you want to read more?
  
  I have no comment on East Germany, because thought I support the Soviet Union in essence, I have never supported some of the things they did, esp. in Warsaw Pact / Soviet bloc nations.
  
  
  Now back to the discussion. What do you have to say to my original point? I'll write it here again, because you seem have a knack for avoiding discussions where you have nothing to say for yourself:
  
  > I don't think you really care about having an honest discussion about socialism vs. fascism if all you bring with you are half-pint facts without any citation.
  > Furthermore, I don't know why we're even having this specific debate in the first place. The picture is that of a female Kurdish fighter who is defending her people from the IS invaders who could murder them or worse if they took control of Kobane.
  > If you still feel that she's doing something wrong, then I'm sorry you feel that way; it seems there is nothing rational that I can say to make you see that what she's doing isn't wrong by any long stretch.

Kelly, More than My Share of It All by Kelly Johnson (http://www.amazon.com/Kelly-More-Than-Share-All/dp/0874744911) is excellent as well. He's the one who started Skunk Works and was Ben Rich's predecessor and mentor. It's interesting to see the two viewpoints as well on the projects that overlap.

• J. W. Young: A Technique for Producing Ideas
  
  
• B. Cordell: Designing Audio Power Amplifiers
  
  
• K. Johnson: More Than My Share of It All
  
  
• T. Heyerdal: Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft
  
  
• R. Coram: Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
  
  
• T. Frederiksen (used only): Intuitive IC OpAmps

The books Death in Yellowstone and Death in Yosemite contain a bunch of interesting stories.

2 Days after the release of his book: preorder it ppl

https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Loyalty-Truth-Lies-Leadership/dp/1250192455/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1521565959&sr=8-1&keywords=comey

Worth reading:

https://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-Raw-Economic-Damaged/dp/1416592377

The Good War by Studs Terkel. It's an oral history. My favorite WWII book.

The preface in the Woodward book (https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Trump-White-Bob-Woodward/dp/1501175513) is about everyone in the White House running around trying to convince Trump that we need a missile defense base in South Korea and trying to explain to him why it is important for National Security.

Then as an act of desperation they get Mathis to come down to the White House to do the explaining because Mathis is one of the people Trump actually respects. You can just feel the exhaustion in the account and imagine how many other basic concepts Mathis has had to go over with Trump.

Detroit: an American autopsy

This book is actually based on Oral History of World War II, which in itself is an awesome book if you can find it.

I highly suggest you read New Deal or Raw Deal, used copies can be purchased for 3 bucks.

Bob Woodward (Fear: Trump In the White House) has a lot to say about how Bannon under Mercer uses CA to foster unrest worldwide. Even though his goal is Christian Reconstruction/Dominionism.

might not be the type of "Resistance" you are wanting to read about, but I loved this book (and i'm not even religious)

https://www.amazon.com/Bonhoeffer-Pastor-Martyr-Prophet-Spy/dp/1595552464

wiki page for the guy it's about, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer

I'm currently reading David Talbot's The Devil's Chessboard and, interesting coincidence, the pages I just read the other night claimed the Hitler was vacant, uninterested in sex with women, that he ran almost entirely on instinct, but Mussolini was vivacious, passionate, and very interested in what was going on around him. In the example they gave, Mussolini was almost giddy waiting for a parade.

Hamilton was a controversial figure to say the least. During his time in Washington's cabinet, he was fundamental to the creation of the policies of the Federalist party. He was frequently reviled by the Democratic-Republican press, accused of being a secret monarchist, enriching himself at the expense of the government, and poisoning the mind of the otherwise perfect George Washington. He also did not have positive relationships with either Jefferson or Adams. While Jefferson thought his policies were dangerous Adams disliked him for much more personal reasons. During the elections of 1792 and 1796, Hamilton secretly lobbied against Adams, ostensibly so that Washington would be elected unanimously. Not surprisingly, Adams took that personally, and never forgave him.

One of the frequent criticisms that was lobbied against Hamilton was that he was too ambitious. During the quasi-war with France (1798-1800), Adams placed Washington in charge of the army in case of a French invasion. Due to Washington's age, he appointed Hamilton to be his deputy, meaning that he was essentially in control of the army. When it became clear that France was not going to invade, and the army would not be needed. Hamilton began to suggest various other military targets that he could attack (Florida or Spanish Louisiana). Southern Democratic-Republicans also spread rumors that Hamilton planned to march on them, placing himself at the head of a coup.

While he may have been interested, Hamilton never really had an opportunity to run for president. Of the 4 elections he lived through (he died in 1804), two were unanimously won by Washington, and John Adams was the Federalist candidate in the other two.

As to whether or not he could have won - probably not. He was despised by the Democratic-Republicans and distrusted by some members of his own party. Additionally, after Jefferson's election in 1800, the Democratic-Republican party controlled the presidency for the next 30 years. So even if he had not died in 1804, he may never have had a good opportunity.

Finally, another strike against Hamilton was his involvement in the 'first American sex scandal.' Democratic-Republican newspaper editor James Thomson Callender published that Hamilton had been making secret payments to James Reynolds. After Reynolds was jailed for a financial scheme, Callender insinuated that Hamilton was involved. Hamilton responded by stating that he wasn't involved in any such scheme, he'd just been sleeping with Reynolds' wife. (He even issued a pamphlet saying such.) This scandal, combined with the general dislike for him throughout the country would almost certainly have kept him from ever being elected President.


Further Reading

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
  
  
• [Washington a Life by Ron Chernow] (http://www.amazon.com/Washington-Life-Ron-Chernow/dp/0143119966/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462079461&sr=8-1&keywords=washington++a+life)
  
  
• John Adams by David McCullough

https://www.amazon.com/Che-Guevara-Revolutionary-Jon-Anderson/dp/080214411X

Buy the book (get it from a library)

Keep believing that bullshit propaganda. There's not one shred of evidence that Che Guevara executed any homosexuals. This is why people need to read and enlighten themselves.

Edit: For anyone that wants to learn more about Che, I highly recommend Jon Lee Anderson's book, which is probably the best researched and balanced biography out there.

Note: I am not an engineer, but I do have some suggestions of things you may like.

Books:

• Failure Is Not An Option by Gene Krantz: Great book about the beginnings of the NASA program, Gemini, Mercury, Apollo, and later. Gene Krantz was a flight director and worked as a test pilot for a long time, and his stories are gripping. Beyond engineering and space, it's a pretty insightful book on leadership in high-stress team situations.
  
  
• Kelly: More Than My Share by Clarence "Kelly" Johnson: This is on my shelf but I haven't read it yet. Kelly Johnson was a pioneer in the world of flight, leading the design and construction of some of the most advanced planes ever built, like the U2 and the SR-71. Kelly's impact on the business of aerospace and project management is immense, definitely a good guy to learn about. Plus he designed the P38 Lightning, without a doubt the most beautiful plane ever built ;)
  
  
• Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of my Years at Lockheed by Ben Rich: A fantastic look at the inside of Lockheed Martin's advanced projects division, the Skunk Works. Ben Rich succeeded Kelly Johnson at Lockheed, so this one is going to overlap with the book above quite a bit. I loved the pace of this one, and it covered a lot more than just the F-117, as the cover would suggest - cool info on the SR-71, U2, F104, the D21 supersonic drone, and stealth technology in general. Beyond that, it provides an inside look at the intricacies of DoD contract negotiation, security/clearance issues, and advanced projects. Awesome book, highly recommend.
  
  
• Elon Musk's Bio by Ashley Vance: A detailed history of all things Musk, I recommend it for the details about SpaceX and the goal to make humans a multi-planetary species. Musk and his (now massive) team are doing it: thinking big, getting their hands dirty, and building/launching/occasionally blowing up cool stuff.
  
  Videos/Games/Blogs/Podcasts:
  
  
• Selenian Boondocks: general space blog, lots of robotics and some space policy
  
  
• Gravity Loss: another space blog, lots about future launch systems
  
  
• The Age of Aerospace: Boeing made a cool series of videos last year for their 100th birthday. Great look at the history of an aerospace mainstay, though it seems a bit self-aggrandizing at times.
  
  
• If you want to kill a ton of time on the computer while mastering the basics of orbital mechanics by launching small green men into space, Kerbal Space Program is for you. Check out /r/kerbalspaceprogram if your interested.
  
  
• Subreddits like /r/spacex, /r/blueorigin, and /r/ula are worth following for space news.
  

Shithead McCuntface Jesus Diaz again without crediting the source where these pics came from.

For those of you who want to know more about those pics, see a lot more such pics and read some more:

1. Kelly: More Than My Share of It All
   
2. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

I love the P-38. The engine housing just got longer and longer with the turbo superchargers, until Kelly just said "Fuck it" and made them the fuselage. And I've always loved it when the wing shape is so prominent in the shape of the aircraft.

Apparently it was designed in a matter of weeks, too, which is all kinds of awesome from a design standpoint.

Edit: People interested in it should read his autobiography, where he talks about the design of the P-38, Constellation, U-2, and SR-71. A goddam legend of aerospace design.

There are a lot of them on the topic I think. But here are the two I’ve read so far.

Yosemite book

Yellowstone

Sorry about formatting, I’m on mobile!

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: This is the best book I have read in a very long time. This is about how our cultures, religions, and values were formed based on biology and psychology theories. I know that sounds boring but it is very interesting.

A Higher Loyalty: If you believe Comey your opinion will not change and if you do not believe Comey your opinion will not change. Meh, skip it.


[Dune] (https://www.amazon.com/Dune-Frank-Herbert/dp/0441172717/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524527285&sr=1-1&keywords=dune) I do not read a lot of Sci-Fi but with the expected move coming u in a few years I thought I might get ahead if it. It was interesting but not exactly action-packed.

Leonardo Da Vinci The Walter Isaacson biographies about "geniuses" Steve Jobs, Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein are all interesting.

For those who are interested in the back story, I heartily recommend James Comeys' A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership. I'm on the last 40 pages and I really don't want the book to end ... just like an absorbing novel. The insight into how the Justice Department and the FBI work is outstanding. James Comey's voice is authentic and apparent on every page.

If you want to go down the rabbit hole - read The Devil's Chessboard.


Post WWII, the US had significant clout. And since it wanted to appear to be "The Good Guy", it could not be "aggressive" in its dealings with 3rd World countries. So the CIA was assigned the business of secretly "Taking Out" World Leaders who did not conform to "US Banking / Oil Interests" (CIA was run by Allen Dulles - Wall Street Lawyer who represented Banking/Oil Interests abroad pre-WWII. His brother, John Foster Dulles (also a Wall Street Lawyer) was Secretary of State = Good Cop / Bad Cop). The CIA staged these "jobs" covertly to appear as "local uprisings" or "Freedom Fighters" or....you guessed it.. "Lone Nuts". The CIA took out "problem" world leaders every year in the 50s - right up to Kennedy. It was business as usual for them.


Kennedy was a problem - He was trying to make "Peace" the goal - not war. He felt that 3rd World countries should be able to control their own local resources (Oil fields, crop production, minerals). US businesses did not agree - because they were getting rich off of other countries resources - see United Fruit

It is all public knowledge now - The CIA never imaged that the "Freedom of Information Act" would ever exist.

do you know what sub you are in? If there was proof it wouldn't still be going on now would it?

That said, it has been long speculated and debated that the CIA used mind controlled agents like Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan and James Earl Ray to assasinate JFK, RFK, and MLK. look it up.


the CIA had mastered MKUltra, Artichoke, and Monarch programming by the 60s and were known to have been using it in several ways to control individuals, including sex slaves. They may have used Marilyn to smear JFK

maybe you should research this stuff youself - it is widely known

"The Devils Chessboard" is a good start.

Ver (and others) have unstated motives. Many complex games being played out here. Although no way to prove it now, imho history will show that state actors were involved in manipulating cryptocurrency from its inception. Read https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062276174/ "The Devil's Chessboard" by Talbott to understand how these entities operate. They are not gonna leave something as disruptive as Bitcoin to chance.

I'm reading Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow. Just trying to imagine what it was like to live during a time when extraordinary men were leaders.

50 shades is too softcore for me.

No problem. If you want to learn more about George Washington I highly recommend this book. http://www.amazon.com/Washington-Life-Ron-Chernow/dp/0143119966/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459134165&sr=8-1&keywords=washington
Really love this book and it goes into great detail on Washington's life without feeling boring or overbearing.

Syme's The Roman Revolution is in my opinion still the orthodox text almost 100 years after it was written (1939 I think). There's several biographies of Caesar that come to mind, most powerfully Meier's and Goldsworthy's. Of these two I prefer Meier's, but I think Badian had a fairly scathing review of it published somewhere. The most recent thing I'm aware of (although I haven't read it) is Goodman's Rome's Last Citizen.

And of course there's always Plutarch, Appian, Cicero's letters (which contain some written by and to Cato). I don't think there's any substitute for starting with the ancient sources.

The standard textbook history right now appears to be The Romans: From Village to Empire.

Klaus Bringmann's A History of the Roman Republic also still seems to be the standard introduction to that period (i.e. the time period of Imperator).

If you want to read about the end of the Roman Republic and Caesar/Augustus, it's hard to turn down Caesar: Life of a Colossus which is great for the general reader, alongside his Augustus: First Emperor of Rome.

He also writes pretty solid books on other major Roman figures, such as In the Name of Rome: The Men who won the Roman Empire.

If you want to get a pretty good introduction to Roman History, but more of what life was like for the average citizen, SPQR by Mary Beard is actually a good choice.

Older, but still solid, is Peter Garnsey's The Roman Empire: Economy, Society, and Culture which covers a lot of things Beard doesn't.

For the Roman army, Adrian Goldsworthy's The Complete Roman Army is a solid introduction.

However you'll want to break that down into several books if you want to go deeper:

Roman Military Equipment by MC Bishop and JCN Coulston

The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries AD by Graham Webster

A Companion to the Roman Army by Paul Erdkamp

For the collapse of the Western Roman Empire I'd recommend both Peter Heather's The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians combined with the more scholarly Guy Halsall's Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West.

For the forgotten half of Roman History, often mistakenly called the "Byzantine Empire," it's hard to cover with just one book, but Warren Treadgold's A History of the Byzantine State and Society has become the standard reading. John Haldon's The Empire that would not Die covers the critical transition during the Islamic conquests thoroughly.

Of course I have to include books on the two IMO most overrated battles in Roman history on this list since that's what people love:

The Battle of the Teutoberg Wald: Rome's Greatest Defeat by Adrian Murdoch

The Battle of Cannae: Cannae: Hannibal's Greatest Victory is sort of the single book to read if you can only pick one. However, The Ghosts of Cannae is also good. But if you actually want to go really in depth, you need Gregory Daly's dry-as-the-Atacama book Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War. When I say dry as the Atacama, I mean it, but it's also extraordinarily detailed.

I'd complement this with Goldsworthy's The Punic Wars.

For other interesting topics:

The Emergence of the Bubonic Plague: Justinian's Flea and Plague and the End of Antiquity.

Hadrian's Wall: Hadrian's Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy

Roman Architecture: Roman Architecture by Frank Sear (definitely a bit more scholarly but you can probably handle it)

I may post more in addendum to this list with further comments but I think I'm reaching the character count.

Well, regarding your question about why more men didn't die, Cavalry is the arm of the Army that would pursue and actually inflict the majority of casualties on a retreating Army. Caesar's Cavalry was totally blown out and tired, so they couldn't actually chase very far. When an Army is totally defeated, they tend to scatter. Especially in this case, because Pompeius literally left the battlefield when he saw his army start to falter, gathered some things up, and fled. Caesar ordered his men to continue to push until they seized the camp of the Pompeians by night, which meant that the retreating army had nowhere to hide and regroup. This wasn't always the case, and it all totally depends on circumstances. For instance, at Canae, the entire Roman forces save some people that were able to escape, were massacred in the Carthaginian double envelopment. It was the perfect battle, the one every commander dreams of, because trapping the entire enemy army on the inside of your own for a slaughter is incredibly difficult and rare. In the case of Pharsalus, the Pompeian Army had plenty of time to retreat before Caesar could cut them off, therefore they just ran and ran.


The only thing Caesar could do was to take the camp. You can't pursue thousands of stragglers or you will throw your own army into disarray when it comes to command and control. He didn't know Pompey had fled yet, and his troops needed to eat. Badly. Basically, once Caesar did that, Pompey's Army practically disintegrated or joined him. Politics plays a huge part in this, because Caesar wanted to shed as little Roman blood as possible, so he spared every last troop that he could, and spared every Roman senator he defeated the first time. So minimizing casualties was actually a political tool in that entire war, as well as in that battle. Even if the Cavalry could chase the retreating Pompeians down, I don't think Caesar would have let the dogs loose, unless it was for the purpose of capture. Propaganda was a tool that Caesar used daily, and what better way to sell yourself as the good guy in the conflict than to end it as bloodlessly as possible and spare everybody you defeated? He had to convince people that he was not going to be the next Sulla, or Marius.



As for reading, there are a ton of books. You can get some basic ones for general tactics, but if you want in-depth study, you basically need specialized books.



http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Medieval-Warfare-Military-History/dp/0895292629
This is one of the first that I bought. It goes over the basic timeline, and outlines the battles. It also has maps of the battles that will help piece it together with the text.


For Caesar, Goldsworthy's book is the best I've read. http://www.amazon.com/Caesar-Life-Colossus-Adrian-Goldsworthy/dp/0300126891/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427748435&sr=1-3&keywords=adrian+goldsworthy



I would honestly recommend just rolling over to Half Price Books and finding the Military History section. Or Ancient History. Look for books that are a bit more specialized, unless you just want a basic introduction to it all from a book that spans a long timeline. I would recommend more, but all my books are in storage at the moment because I'm in a bit of a weird living situation after moving states. If you find some good stuff, and burn through them, feel free to message me again a few months down the road and I should be able to access my books easily at that point and give you some recommendations.

There's an entire documentary and a book that details exactly what he's talking about (Restrepo and War respectively).

edit: Hell, there's plenty more of that if you spend enough time on 03xx section of TerminalLance.com forums.

Have a listen to this Ted talk by Sebastian Junger. I also strongly recommend his book War.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0609610627

Ghengis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Utterly fascinating, and reads more clearly than most history books I've encountered to date.

I used to think that the political atmosphere has been getting more and more toxic and combative, until I read Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose. It's about Lewis & Clark but it also goes into all the factors that lead up to their journey. One of the things that surprised me is how angry the parties were even then. Some of the things the opposition say about Jefferson sound exactly like the kind of shit we hear from Republicans today.

Also, I highly recommend the book.

Since you have that Stephen Ambrose book there, I must recommend Undaunted Courage. It tells the tale of the Lewis & Clark expedition mainly from Lewis's perspective. Awesome book.

I remember a while back, I had to read 1776 by David McCullough for school, which, if you haven't read it, is a really detailed historical account of the American Revolution. I mostly remember that, like most international political issues, I had trouble following everything that was going on at once. Very interesting and informative read, though.

If we're talking McCullough and the American Revolution, you've got to mention 1776. I would definitely start there. For a look at one of the major battles of the southern theater, and a general look at how strategy and tactics differed there as opposed to in the north I recommend A Devil of a Whipping.

Not necessarily a response to the question but a suggested reading on the topic.


1776 by David McCullough

Awesome book!

Have you read any Anthony Everitt? his work is amazing.

https://www.amazon.com/Augustus-Life-Romes-First-Emperor/dp/0812970586/

and also his other bio on Cicero really opened my eyes.

Augustus by Anthony Everrit is a great place to start for the life of Augustus.

Tom Holland's Dynasty is amazing as well and covers all of the Julio Claudian dynasty.

For original source material, Plutarch's Lives and The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius.

It's already been mentioned here, but I'll mention it again: The History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan is an easy way to digest this stuff. The production quality in the beginning is very poor, but that gets so much better as it goes on.

He published a book last year called The Storm Before The Storm, which is about how the Republic got to the point where men like Julius Caesar were able to come onto the stage and do what they did. There are some really disturbing parallels to our own times. While it's always a bit silly to compare America to Rome, the similarities are fairly stark. The paper back comes out later this month.

Duncan is also currently producing a podcast called Revolutions, in which he does narrative histories of the English, American, French, Haitian, South American, and Mexican revolutions, as well as the French Revolution of 1830, the pan-European revolutions of 1848, and the Paris Commune. I know this is off topic, but Duncan really is amazing and I never miss a chance to plug his work.

Edit: here are the two episodes of The History of Rome that deal with Augustus's style of rule. Caesar Augustus and Reigning Supreme.

Other than the Missing 411 books, David has also mentioned Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite by Michael P. Ghiglieri and Charles R. Farabee, a former protection ranger and superintendent

Ahh, ok. I looked it up and saw that he also wrote Death in Yosemite. I knew he had written another one. Interesting stuff, though!

I've read both Death in Yellowstone (A+) and Death in Yosemite (C+) and found them to be interesting.

Most of the deaths are rather unexciting. Automobile accidents are the leading cause of death in every NP I have ever heard of.

Here is a list from the Smokey Mountain NP website.
>Average number of serious injuries in the park each year:
Motor vehicle accidents - 50,
Walking or hiking accidents - 38,
Bicycle accidents - 16,
Falls from waterfalls - 9,
Horse related - 7,
Tubing related - 5,
Bee Sting reaction - 4

My recommendation is to drive the whole length of Hwy 441 through the park. The road might as well be a graveyard. Tons of people have died on it. But don't come crying to me when you come back and say it doesn't feel any more dangerous than any other road.

Is it a bad thing that I've been counting down the days until the release of James Comey's book? I don't think I can forget his nonsense with Clinton, but I still want that book. I don't know/remember if this is allowed here, but here's a link to a it.

https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Loyalty-Truth-Lies-Leadership/dp/1250192455

That it's making the White House uncomfortable and is having people in the GOP trying to discredit Comey makes me think it's worth taking a look.

It's easy enough [to confirm that] (https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Loyalty-Truth-Lies-Leadership/dp/1250192455/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1521224392&sr=8-1&keywords=james+comey).

This makes me want to get the audio version. I can [pre-order] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1250192455/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_twi_har_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1519795733&sr=1-1&keywords=comey) it but wow, it's expensive.

This book by Burton Folsom goes into great depth on it. They are rather generous on the sneak preview, and you can thumb through it to get a small taste of all the ways in which he failed.

https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Trump-White-Bob-Woodward/dp/1501175513/

A collection of stories just like this was required reading when I was in college at Michigan State.

The Good War: An Oral History of World War II

http://www.amazon.com/Good-War-Oral-History-World/dp/1565843436

Had to take a tear break every once in a while between chapters.

Thanks to you & your Grandma.

In case you want to read up more on your question, you may be interested in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s struggle with the same thing. Give Ethics or The Cost of Discipleship a try. TLDR; he was a pastor in the end who decided it was biblical to conspire against Hitler and it cost him his life. Really smart, well-reasoned man who had a biblical basis for what he wrote. Found myself challenged by his books.

The easiest way to get Christianity is to read the Bible. But to supplement that, I would encourage you to read books by these two German authors: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Jurgen Moltmann

Bonhoeffer was a prominent leader of the confessing church (the church that resisted Hitler) and was a prominent member of the German resistance and a part of the Valkyrie plot. If you want to know more about him and his life, Eric Metaxas wrote an excellent Biography about him. Bonhoeffer's most famous works are "Life Together" about living a life in Christian community, and "The Cost of Discipleship" which is about Grace and how we must not live in a place of cheap Grace. Bonhoeffer was executed a t Flossenburg concentration camp a few months before VE day, and there are some nice memorials to him there (about 1.5 hours east of Nurnberg).

Jurgen Moltmann was drafted into Hitler's army in like 1944 and was taken prisoner. He found God in a Scottish POW camp. Moltmann writes a lot about Hope and spends a lot of time exploring what Christ's sacrifices mean to believers. Some of his most famous works are "The Crucified God", "Theology of Hope", "Trinity and the Kingdom" and "The Way of Jesus Christ." Moltmann also comments on more social issues which arose in the post-war era and has a more social theology, which adds a unique depth to his writing.

First, I don't know much about the graph or the data. Statistics can be used to mislead and I wouldn't be surprised if there was more hiddden in this.

And then, there comes his rant. My god, what a shitshow.

>Let’s go back before World War II to the Great Depression. Speculative unregulated policies ruined the economy.

Seriously? How can someone believe that? This is for people who do.

>The New Deal policies reflected that national purpose, honoring a social safety net, increasing bargaining power for workers and bringing public interest into balance with corporate power.

Come on. This is not that hard...

> In this narrative, they [CEOs] deserve more wealth so they can create more jobs, even as they lay off workers, close factories and invest new capital in low-wage countries.

Yep, fuck those poor people over there. This is the hypocrisy I find most astonishing. The entire article is his complaining about wealth inequality but when the market starts leveling out the greatest example of income inequality (first world vs third world countries), then he's all up in arms to prevent it.

>In the new moral view, anyone making “poor choices” is responsible for his or her own ruin.

No comment.

>Millions of part-time workers must please their employer to get hours.

Thanks, Obama.

>We can start rebuilding our social cohesion when we say all work has dignity. Workers earn a share of the wealth we create.

How can socialists still argue this? Workers can earn a share of what they create. Anyone can. It's called a stock exchange. The problem is that few of them want to. And why would they? An important part of having a steadily-paid job is the risk-minimalization. Why would the worker want to decrease their income uncertainty and increase it at the same time?

This whole thing is just ridiculous. And sad.

Do yourself a favor and listen to Charlie LeDuff's Fresh Air interview and go read his book. He's an amazing guy doing great journalistic work.

Actually, people like Bonhoeffer and other Lutherans were surprised when people were using Luther's writings for antisemitic purposes, mostly because until that point they had not read them. Clearly, until much later, these works weren't a significant part of Luther's works.

source

Currently reading Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy and I'm enjoying it so far!

Beethoven : The Man Revealed by Suchet is a great character study of a man who gave everything to music.

I think our modern sense of “greatness” is pretty shallow to be honest.

I’m currently reading Bonhoeffer right now, and so far I’m very intrigued. If you’re interested in what kind of greatness inside a man could lead him to leave the safety of America and travel back to Nazi Germany to undermine Hitler, check it out.

(Not to say that sports, or athletic excellence shouldn’t be celebrated or read about, and if you enjoy it, great. But when i hear “greatness” i think of other things.)

Too soon, amigo. Yes, that was 80 years ago, and yes, it's still too soon to quip about that. As an aside - but related to that topic - I've been reading a fantastic biography about Deitrich Bonhoeffer, a lutheran pastor who valiantly fought the Nazis every way he could, before being executed in a concentration camp in 1945. Highly recommend.

I quite enjoyed The Emperor of Maladies and Detroit: An American Autoposy. Obviously the book about Detroit isn't about a world issue, it's a pretty localized one but it's a great read.

An Oral History of World War 2, hence the full title of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.

Y'know how bad he seems on the news? He's way worse IRL.

https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Trump-White-Bob-Woodward/dp/1501175513

This is how I see it. I would add to this that after the Bay of Pigs Kennedy fired Allen Dulles who helped form and was the first director of CIA and a very seriously powerful man. When Kennedy fired him most of the upper echelon of the CIA still reported to him at his Georgetown home and sought out advice if not direction.

Have you heard of this new book? It's supposed to be good. The author is well regarded and from what I understand he basically states that Dulles directed the assignation from his home in D.C.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Devils-Chessboard-Americas-Government/dp/0062276166

Wasn't an official US Conflict. Read the Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot.

This is a great start -- I'd also add

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0025718703/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_of_28?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=WM51ZS7H5BVBZ2BRS8AY

This book seemed far-fetched when it was written, but has held up to further research.

https://youtu.be/hbT8C2IAzvE

Highly entertaining

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0062276166?vs=1

Ultimately, I think Allan Dulles is the closest we get to a mastermind behind it all.

I'd suggest something by Gaeton Fonzi , to get his story about Oswald and CIA


Also Rush to Judgement , Plausible Denial and Last Word by Mark Lane.

But JFK and the Unspeakable above is the best analysis of Why They Did It. It's fairly obvious that they covered it up and made a patsy of Oswald, but why take the enormous risk?

Here are three. Knock yourself out!

https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174

https://www.amazon.com/How-America-Lost-Its-Secrets/dp/0451494563

https://www.amazon.com/Marys-Mosaic-Conspiracy-Kennedy-Pinchot/dp/1510708928

By Way of Deception, The Big White Lie, Reluctant Spy, and The Devil's Chessboard are a few that come to mind immediately.

Ron Chernow wrote a really in depth one a few years ago. It's not as dry as his Alexander Hamilton biography (I don't know how anyone could make that man's life and accomplishments seem boring), but it's still a pretty daunting read.

If you're really dead set on reading about ONLY Washington, that's one of the best, most comprehensive biographies I've seen, though to be honest, it's the only one I've actually completed since whatever outdated and bland biographies on Washington I had to consult in high school for papers.

If, however, you're interested in other figures contemporary to Washington, and arguably as important (if not more so) in the formative years of the US, check out Founding Brothers. It's a relatively quick read, and offers just enough information and analysis of a cast of characters to remain more solidly biographical than merely a hodgepodge of anecdotes.

OR. If neither of those appeals, Bentley Little wrote a short story called "The Washingtonians" in a short story collection that appears to be currently out of print. In it, he explores the "secret" life of George Washington, the "real" reason he wore false teeth, and exposes a secret society of followers in the present day.

This book has the Washington speculation: http://www.amazon.com/Washington-A-Life-Ron-Chernow/dp/0143119966

The author asked several PD specialists to review the evidence--there was no strong agreement that it was conclusive.

>I don't know how you can say that Washington had unusual virtue when he had slaves for most of his life.

"It's had to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it."

It's easy to be against slavery today, your life doesn't depend on slavery. But if you had been born in a slave owning society, spent your whole life listening to people who extolled the positive virtues of slavery, and financially depended on the slaves you own, you probably wouldn't be against slavery. Neither would I, or most people. Washington, however, DID live in such a society, came to hate slavery anyway, and personally sacrificed to end slavery in his small corner of the universe. That is exceptional virtue.

>Also as the first president he had power to try and do something about it and didn't.

What power was that? the constitution gave the federal government no power to eliminate slavery. It specifically banned it from doing so, in fact.

> He was a very wealthy man, especially after he got married, he could have easily afforded to free his slaves earlier.

His wife's wealth was not his to spend. See Chernow's biography on this. Washington held Martha's property in trust for her children, he literally wasn't allowed to divest himself of those slaves.

Back then? Most of them. George Washington was the master, and John Adams tried but failed most of time and was made fun of for it by his peers.


edit: I highly recommend Washington: A Life for anyone interested in his man and those around him. Be wary, it strays into conjecture at times and I think it comes off as a little too harsh on him in some instances, but its still the best stand alone biography I've read.

https://twitter.com/ryenarussillobc

Some dude posts all the recommendations he's made on his podcast. I assume the Washington book you're referencing is Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

https://www.amazon.com/Washington-Life-Ron-Chernow/dp/0143119966

Or maybe In the Hurricanes Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick

https://www.amazon.com/Hurricanes-Eye-Washington-Victory-Yorktown/dp/0525426760

For those interested in learning more about Detroit, I highly suggest "Detroit: An American Autopsy" by Charlie LeDuff. It gives a very honest and insightful look into Detroit

http://www.amazon.com/Detroit-American-Autopsy-Charlie-LeDuff/dp/0143124463

Not sure what the laws are for mailing beer, but a growler from Kuhnhenns Brewery is never a bad gift. Maybe a book from Detroit journalist Charlie LeDuff?

I love Charlie. He wrote a very disturbing book.
http://www.amazon.com/Detroit-American-Autopsy-Charlie-LeDuff/dp/0143124463/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451419967&sr=8-1&keywords=charlie+leduff

https://www.amazon.com/Caesar-Life-Colossus-Adrian-Goldsworthy/dp/0300126891/ref=nodl_?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-iphone-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0300126891

Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy is the best one I've come across. Any of Goldsworthy's books on Roman history (Antony & Cleopatra, Fall of the Roman Empire, Punic Wars) are excellent.

You got to read the book, it is so good. http://www.amazon.com/WAR-Sebastian-Junger/dp/0446556246
The book will really make you think.

60 minutes on Giunta

If you want a better understanding as to what life was like in the Korengal valley read this book it is very good.

His aim was to unite all the tribes under the blue sky in honor of the sky spirit he worshipped.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0609610627

Check it out if you're interested. Good read.

Maus is probably one of the two most celebrated works in english comics

Fullmetal Alchemist is probably the most popular modern manga series

Dune by Frank Herbert.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams. You have probably read it, but if you haven't, it's superbly funny sci-fi comedy.

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. A book that I re-read once every few years, and every time I find something new in it.

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon. A gripping, heartbreaking non-fiction book about police detectives. It inspired the acclaimed TV series "Homicide: Life on the Street." Simon would go on to create "The Wire."

The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy. Noir-ish procedural crime fiction. If you enjoy "Homicide," you may well like this.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, "a philosophical novel about two men, two women, a dog and their lives in the Prague Spring of the Czechoslovak Communist period in 1968," according to Wikipedia. One of my favorite books.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami. Detective novel meets sci-fi in one mind-bending existential work. If you watch "Fringe," well, this book is Fringe-y... and more.

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. Time travel. Victorian England. A tea cozy mystery of sorts.

Graphic novels! Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman. Love And Rockets by The Hernandez brothers. The Sandman by Neil Gaiman. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki. Elektra: Assassin by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz. And of course, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. To discover yet more great comic books, check out the Comics College series.

Actually, if you read Maus, it's a compelling example of how in the most dire straits, under threat of imminent death, it becomes every man for himself; and all social ties, including blood ties, fall apart.

>What's the difference (if any) between a comic book and a graphic novel?

Comic Book: A "book" that tells a story in comic form. Now the book part varies and can mean a number of things.

It could refer to:

Single Issue: A comic story that is smaller than a graphic novel. Typically ~32 to 48 pages. These are also called floppies and are those books that you see in a Comic Book Store.

Graphic Novel: Usually, refers to a story told in comic form which is contained in a single book. For example, Watchmen or Maus are graphic novels.

Trade Paperbacks: Also called trades are books that have collected several single issues into 1 book. For example, New52 Batman Vol 1: The Court of Owls contains Issues #1 to #7 of New52 Batman.

Trades are different from Graphic Novels in that they don't have the complete story in them. Going back to the Batman example it's only "Volume 1" of 10 Volumes.

Note The words trade and graphic novel are usually interchangeable and people aren't gonna rage at you for using one or the other but the biggest difference is if it's a self contained story in a single book then it's a graphic novel.


>What's an omnibus?

An Omnibus is a larger collection of Single Issues into a single book.

Usually a Trade collects 6 or 7 Issues of a comicbook while an Omnibus would collect ~25 to 30 Issues of a comicbook.

>In DC, what are New 52 and Rebirth (without spoiling anything plot related if that's possible)?

New 52: Was a complete reboot of the DC Universe in an attempt to attract newer readers. It was met with mostly mixed results as it made things simpler for newer readers but in some cases drastically changed elements of certain characters that people liked.

Rebirth: Directly follows the New52 era. It was a, pretty successful, attempt by DC to rectify the mistakes of the New52 and bring back elements that long time readers had missed from their favorite characters. It was basically merging the elements of the pre-New52 and New52 universe. Leaving what works and changing what didn't.

>How do New 52 and Rebirth compare? I believe New 52 is older, but is it still relatively easy to get your hands on? Is there anything even worth going for, or should I just check out Rebirth stuff?

For the most part Rebirth was more well liked by fans than New52 overall. However there are certain New52 story arcs and series that people really enjoyed as well.

For New52 I recommend the following:
Aquaman Vol 1 to Vol 6 + Vol 8 (Skip 7)
Green Arrow Vol. 4 to Vol. 6
Batman and Robin Vol. 1 to Vol. 7
The Flash Vol. 1 to Vol. 4
Batman Vol. 1 to Vol. 10
Batwoman Vol. 1 to Vol. 4
Animal Man Vol. 1 to Vol. 5
Gotham Academy Vol. 1 to Vol. 2

>Who are a few of your favorite modern writers? I see Geoff Johns name coming up on a lot of stuff, is he actually good or just popular?

Geoff Johns is liked and popular. But his claim to fame wasn't writing a groundbreaking and award winning new series. It came from being consistently good over years and years of writing comics. He's reliable and knows what the majority of readers want.

For other writers I'd say that /u/holymoloid provided a really good list.

>My favorite characters are Batman, Flash, and Green Lantern. If you could only have one book or arc for each, what would you get?

Over at /r/DCcomics they have a wiki with a bunch of helpful suggestions I'd reccomend reading that.

But for a quick summary:

Green Lantern: Geoff Johns is the main guy to go to for Green Lantern. He worked on the book for ~9 years and built the foundation for the modern mythos.

The Flash: Mark Waid's run is considered the best read that first. Geoff Johns' run is considered the 2nd best, it follows Waid's run.

Batman: Start with Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's run from the New52. It's in the suggestion list I gave you above. (Vol 1 to Vol 10 of the New52)

The Complete Maus. Which is technically a graphic novel but it still counts.

>This got me thinking, I remember knowing about WW2 and Hitler as far back as then I was 5-6 years old but I have no idea how I got that knowledge. Perhaps it was just more prevalent as a subject back then in the early 90's considering it was only 49 years since my country (Norway) got liberated and I had a lot of relatives who grew up under German occupation.

I learned it because the children's magazine I read in the '90s they also had an encyclopaedia that covered various subjects, including both World Wars. Later on, in the children's library section of a community club I went to, they had a cute little comic with talking mice: Maus, by Art Spiegelman. So from a pretty early age, around 9 to 10, I knew all about World War II and concentration camps.

​

EDIT: This was all in Argentina, by the way. So I read it in Spanish. And way before I officially learnt it in high school, which must've been around ages 15-16 for me.

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

Not really fantasy-related, but I read Undaunted Courage in fifth grade. It was the most dull, slogging read I can remember, even to this day :P

Correct. They knew very little of the continent between the longitude of St. Louis and the Pacific coast.

In fact Jefferson held some views that in hindsight and modern viewpoint would seem pretty wild. E.g. there was a theory that a certain tribe of indians was in fact a legendary lost tribe of Welshmen... They also had no idea the Rocky Mountains existed or at least had no idea about their height and extent. They were basically betting there was a navigable water route to the Pacific.

For details I can't recommend Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose enough.

[The American West - Dee Brown]
(https://www.amazon.com/American-West-Dee-Brown/dp/0684804417) More so history regarding westward expansion.

[The Art of Seeing Things - Essays by John Burroughs]
(https://www.amazon.com/Art-Seeing-Things-Essays-Burroughs/dp/0815606788)

[Undaunted Courage - Stephen E. Ambrose]
(https://www.amazon.com/Undaunted-Courage-Meriwether-Jefferson-American/dp/0684826976)

[Astoria - Peter Starkk]
(https://www.amazon.com/Astoria-Jeffersons-Pacific-Ambition-Survival/dp/0062218298)

[Frozen in Time - Mitchell Zuckoff]
(https://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Time-Survival-Modern-Heroes-ebook/dp/B009NG2G54)Survival/military but I enjoyed it.

[Alone on the Ice - Daid Roberts]
(https://www.amazon.com/Alone-Ice-Greatest-Survival-Exploration-ebook/dp/B007Q6XJL8)

[Farthest North - Fridtjog Nansen]
(https://www.amazon.com/Farthest-North-Incredible-Three-Year-Exploration/dp/0375754725/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483043755&sr=1-1&keywords=farthest+north+nansen)

[Steller's Island - Dean Littlepage]
(http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Stellers-Island-P484.aspx)

[The Arctic Year - Freuchen & Salomonsen]
(https://www.amazon.com/Arctic-year-Peter-Freuchen/dp/B0007IZCNK)

[Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing]
(https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Incredible-Alfred-Lansing/dp/0465062881)

According to Stephen E Ambrose in Undaunted Courage, the trading of metal knives and other objects were an important way for his party to ease relations with potentially hostile natives. So attributes like speechcraft and persuasion and the merchant character class common to D&D are definitely in play here.

Edit: *grammar

You will have to suffer my historical bias here.

• Washington
  
• Lincoln
  
• Theodore Roosevelt
  
• Adams
  
• Jefferson
  
• McNamara
  
• Kissinger
  
• Albright
  
• Nixon
  
• 1776
  
• Founding Brothers
  
  The Roosevelt biography is very good. The last two are general history of the creation of the US.

I recommend learning the history of America's founding, like the Revolution and Constitution. If he has time, read 1776. Also check out the Revolutions podcast, and just skip to the part about the American Revolution.

It depends on what you're interested in.

Great War for Civilisation is full of fascinating stories from a war correspondent covering the middle east; he interviewed Bin Laden several times before 9/11 among other things. The book is long, but it brings the conflicts to your doorstep and takes you behind the scenes where the media is often restricted from going. Be warned of the size and content though. It is gruesome in most places, and provides a very realistic account of what goes on daily over there.

1776 tells the story of the American revolution, concentrating on the battles and the men who fought them. It is written extremely well. If you have any interest whatsoever in the founding fathers, the characters behind the revolution, or even just a good story, read it and you shouldn't be disappointed.

Short History of Nearly Everything basically takes everything you're interested in that is science related, condenses it all into discrete explanations, and combines the whole to present a great reading experience. It's a bit like doing for science what "A People's History of the United States" did for history. It all feels genuine.

Those are a few I have particularly enjoyed.

1776 by David McCullough is a really excellent read, covering the year that American Independence was won. The book basically follows Washington and the Continental army throughout this pivotal year, also touching on the perspectives of key British generals. McCullough includes many anecdotes and excerpts from Washington's personal letters that give the reader an intimate perception of Washington the man, not just the general.

McCullough has also written a number of highly successful biographies of various Founding Fathers you could look into too.

Put your money where your mouth is and read a real source. If you read that book and don't come out with a different opinion of Che I'd be surprised. He murdered at his own discretion, which didn't take much. If you wanted to go back to your family and leave the resistance you were a traitor, if you were a farmer who was indifferent to the revolution, you were a traitor. Che is such a complex historical figure. This is a man who left his own country by choice to overthrow the government in a country he knew barely anything about. He paid hardly any attention to his first wife or kid, essentially abandoned his second wife and kids. Che was an asshole, through and through, a political idealist who's ideas and orders led to the murder of thousands of innocent people.

I have always found that peoples' opinion of Che falls in line with their political leanings. I will admit that after reading Jon Lee Andersons incredibly exhaustive biography of Che in which had many many passages from Che personal Journals lent to the author by Ches' widow.

I can say that there are, like most people, good and bad things about Che. I will not deny any bad things about a person;I might argue details and context, but why more? History has a bad habit of painting figures in a positive light. The information if still there though, you just have to go look for it. There was a great post on best of reddit about the atrocities committed by Columbus--a hailed figure in American history-- against the natives. I'm not comparing the two by any means, its just a good example.

But after reading the biography and really, the journal entries of Che, you see a different man. A passionate man, a compassionate man. You see someone so dedicated to the cause that he turns down any government salary and continues living on the meager commandant salary. A true revolutionary who lived with the workers, a man who volunteered his weekends to help out as a labourer. You see someone dedicated to education and virtually eliminating illiteracy.

Any killing, outside of the military tribunals after the overthrow of Batista's regime, which were for the standard crimes for which many militaries around the world call for the death penalty--rape, murder, torture, desertion etc--would have been against, yes, counter revolutionaries, in some Marxist interpretations this is the solution. I don't condone it. Part of seeing and accepting the good and bad. But, and this part is just my opinion, I think the majority of the oppression and killing is more on the Castros.

I think this because of this quote by the author(and, of course the journal/diary entries) "I have yet to find a single credible source pointing to a case where Che executed 'an innocent'. Those persons executed by Guevara or on his orders were condemned for the usual crimes punishable by death at times of war or in its aftermath: desertion, treason or crimes such as rape, torture or murder. I should add that my research spanned five years, and included anti-Castro Cubans among the Cuban-American exile community in Miami and elsewhere." — Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, PBS forum


That's a pretty bold statement to make. I'll admit it. Again, I can't sit here and say Che is completely innocent. I just can't. But, I think, that if Che knew about the crimes committed by Castro he wouldn't approve.
I get the impression that Che was more committed to fighting for the people and teaching Marxism and he left more duties up to Castro than he should have. Castro respected his opinion highly and Che was really the one who could keep him in line if need be--diffuse a potentially hostile situation--and when he left for Africa and then Bolivia, he left a very fragile situation in the hands of someone who wanted to control the revolution and not guide it like the State was supposed to.

I just think of him as someone who was fighting for the poor and exploited. Anything after that is up to how much you approve of violence and war to reach your end. It does seem to be a common approach throughout history though .

I have just the book for you

http://www.amazon.com/Che-Guevara-A-Revolutionary-Life/dp/080214411X

I read two history books this year that were excellently written and very-well researched. One is "Augustus: The life of Rome's First Emperor" by Anthony Everitt and The First Crusade: A New History: The Roots of Conflict between Christianity and Islam. Both great books and they'll keep you engaged the whole time. I truly recommend them.

I like biographies of famous people a lot.

Augustus, by Anthony Everitt: I find Augustus fascinating because his rise to power was one of the very very few examples in history where a Trio of teenagers defeated their enemies against overwhelming odds and succeeded creating an order lasting for more than two centuries. (The Principate stopped working after Septimius Severus took power in 193AD)

FDR, by Jean Edward Smith: FDR is simply my favorite US president.

Titan, The Life of John D. Rockefeller, by Ron Chernow: Rockefeller was born in a very poor family, never had an university education, and became a billionaire by the end of 19th century. Regardless how you view him today, his rise made an excellent story.

Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson: He was a jerk, but also a genius. His love/hate relationship with Bill Gates is story for the ages. This book also shines some good insight into the tech industry. I have to say this book helped me making lots of money in stocks.

I'm reading Elon Musk's biography right now and think it might be helpful if you're talking about career success. The dude seems like a jerk but has an incredible work ethic and drive to succeed.

You can say pretty much the same exact thing about Augustus' biography.

Outliers really helped me a lot, because it made me realize talent wasn't nearly important as skill/effort. You put in the time and effort and you will develop your skills.

If you're an introvert like me these books helped me "fake it till I make it" or just want to be more socially capable: Charisma Myth, anything by Leil Lowndes, Make People Like You in 90 Seconds. Not a book but the Ted Talk about body language by Amy Cuddy

A book on leadership I always hear good things about but haven't read yet is Start With Why.

A book about Augustus.

Amazon Link

It does, and its called More Than My Share Of It All. Its interesting, but i found Ben Rich to be a much better writer. Kellys book is not as interesting (at least to me) but nevertheless a good read.

Sadly not the first NPR will it be the last time this happens. I'd suggest reading Off the Wall:Death in Yosemite for an interesting (and a bit macabre) historical perspective of that aspect of Yosemite.

Edit: changed my link to the soft cover version

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership on Amazon

But please support your local bookstore and purchase there instead!!

> Quick! Someone tell me how this news should make me feel.

It's supposed to make you not feel like reading any books

https://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-Raw-Economic-Damaged/dp/1416592377

Great book!

Yeah, here you go:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1596980966/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_rJ.bzbGB98S2C

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/1416592377/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_II.bzbTVVKZTN

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• Operation Mockingbird : CIA infiltration of media and publishing with agents to push CIA's cryptofascist, authoritarian, hawkish defense-industry-promoting views. [G,U,I,J,M,F,O,P]
  
• Operation Northwoods : proposed false-flag of CIA against Cuba, turned down by JFK. We know what happens next. [U,P]
  
• Operation Paperclip : US intelligence recruitment of over 1600 Nazi scientists into US military intelligence. With Paperclip came mass psychology, ritual abuse studies that became the basis of future project MKULTRA. In Paperclip over 7000 US soldiers were subjected to Nazi experimentation, including testing poisonous gas and LSD on them, in the name of security. Everything the public wanted them not to do.
  
• Mae Brussell's Project Paperclip podcast (5/23/1982)
  
• The True History and Purpose of NASA
  
• Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America. The following resources help explain the impact of Project Paperclip, perhaps the most ruinous conspiracy in the history of the US.
  
• Nazis did not lose WW2 according to Charlotte Iserbyt (author of "Deliberate Dumbing Down of America")
  
• The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
  
• The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
  
• Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy (Forbidden Bookshelf)
  
• Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990
  
• Jack Parsons: Jet Propelled Antichrist : documentary about founder of JPL lab and connections to Nazi SS occult, Scientology. Can't make this stuff up.
  
• Operation PBSUCCESS : CIA sponsored Guatemalan coup d’etat of 1954 [U,P]
  
• Operation PBFORTUNE : precursor to PBSUCCESS [U,P]
  
• Operation Satinique : Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace's flagship, for protesting French nuclear test near New Zealand by France's CIA. 1 died, ten others thrown into the water by bombs planted on the ship. [DGSE]
  
• Operation Snow White : The Church of Scientology broke into US government offices in order to steal information and purge unfavorable records about the church. It was one of the largest infiltrations of the United States government in history, with up to 5000 cover agents worldwide. (How Scientology continues to exist is well beyond me. They must have gotten some juicy blackmailable info.) [P]
  
• Operation Top Hat : was a local field exercise conducted by the United States Army Chemical Corps in 1953. The exercise involved the use of Chemical Corps personnel to test biological and chemical warfare decontamination methods. These personnel were deliberately exposed to these contaminants, so as to test decontamination.
  
• Operation Washtub: CIA-organized false flag operation to plant a phony Soviet arms cache in Nicaragua to demonstrate Guatemalan ties to Moscow [U]
  
• Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii : by US Marines and help from US Citizens [U,P]
  
• Pan Am Flight 110 : In 1973 PLO terrorists attacked an airport in Rome and hijacked Pan am Flight 110. The PLO said the men would be tried for carrying out an "unauthorized operation". The five terrorists were later released under negotiations during another hijacking that took place on 21 November 1974, but were then returned to the custody of the PLO. [A]
  
• The Pentagon Papers : papers that revealed the Johnson Administration "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress." [U,P]
  
• Phoebus cartel : Industrial conspiracy to control the light bulb industry through large scale planned obsolescence involving GE, Philips, Swiss companies. [O]
  
• Phoenix Program : "Author, poet, and journalist Douglas Valentine states that "Central to Phoenix is the fact that it targeted civilians, not soldiers". A CIA-sponsored program to torture, kill and mind-control 81,740 Viet Cong civilians, killing 41,000 civilians. Just to understand what killing civilians is about: this would be equivalent of "the terrorists" blowing up the WTC 13.666 times. [U]

• Operation 40 : Cuban exiles group used in Bay of Pigs invasion [U,P,M]
  
• Operation TP-Ajax : CIA plot to overthrow democratically elected Prime Minister to reinstall Monarchy and guarantee future problems with radical Islam, Iran, and perpetual war, because we like war and hate capitalism, actually. No, that's not it. We like us. US. [U,P] Also, tp as in toilet paper and ajax as in soap to clean up. That's what the cia thought of the middle east btw. More mockery of humanity.
  
• Operation Black Eagle : Albanian mafia importing heroin into the US. [M]
  
• Operation Chaos : Nixon and Johnsons's paranoiac surveillance, tracking and reporting plan embedded agents into all aspects of student antiwar organizations; operation to undermine the counter-culture by harassment, entrapment, and gaslighting the public. [U,P]
  
• Operation Charly : Argentine-CIA counterinsurgency [U]
  
• Operation Dormouse : Notice that link doesn't work. Interesting huh? Here's one that does., and here's another in case they scrub that one too
  
• Operation Freakout : Church of Scientology's covert plan intended to have the U.S. author and journalist Paulette Cooper imprisoned or committed to a psychiatric hospital [O]
  
• Operation Gladio : NATO conspiracy to create a network of agents acting as a 'stay behind' army to take over Europe, ostensibly "in the event of an emergency soviet/communist attack". Connected to Propaganda Due and the deep state created by the secret lodge. [G,J, U,P,F,O]
  
• Operation Himmler : German false flag to incite Polish aggression. [F]
  
• Operation Menu : US covert bombing of Cambodian sanctuaries. [U]
  
• Operation Midnight Climax : CIA dosed prostitutes with LSD and watched them have sex behind mirrors. "Because of important research with US tax dollars, guys." Subproject of MKULTRA [U,P]
  
• Operation Mockingbird : CIA infiltration of media and publishing with agents to push CIA's cryptofascist, authoritarian, hawkish defense-industry-promoting views. [G,U,I,J,M,F,O,P]
  
• Operation Northwoods : proposed false-flag of CIA against Cuba, turned down by JFK. We know what happens next. [U,P]
  
• Operation Paperclip : US intelligence recruitment of over 1600 Nazi scientists into US military intelligence. With Paperclip came mass psychology, ritual abuse studies that became the basis of future project MKULTRA. In Paperclip over 7000 US soldiers were subjected to Nazi experimentation, including testing poisonous gas and LSD on them, in the name of security. Everything the public wanted them not to do.
  
  • Mae Brussell's Project Paperclip podcast (5/23/1982)
    
  • The True History and Purpose of NASA
    
  • Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America. The following resources help explain the impact of Project Paperclip, perhaps the most ruinous conspiracy in the history of the US.
    
  • Nazis did not lose WW2 according to Charlotte Iserbyt (author of "Deliberate Dumbing Down of America")
    
  • The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
    
  • The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
    
  • Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy (Forbidden Bookshelf)
    
  • Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990
    
  • Jack Parsons: Jet Propelled Antichrist : documentary about founder of JPL lab and connections to Nazi SS occult, Scientology. Can't make this stuff up.
    
• Operation PBSUCCESS : CIA sponsored Guatemalan coup d’etat of 1954 [U,P]
  
• Operation PBFORTUNE : precursor to PBSUCCESS [U,P]
  
• Operation Satinique : Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace's flagship, for protesting French nuclear test near New Zealand by France's CIA. 1 died, ten others thrown into the water by bombs planted on the ship. [DGSE]
  

I do:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Devils-Chessboard-Americas-Government/dp/0062276166

I’ve just started reading The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot. Kennedy really wasn't super Cold-War-ey and didn't play ball at all with Dulles and the CIA. That group of nut jobs wanted to defeat the USSR at all costs, and believed the US would be the victors in a nuclear war. JFK most assuredly did not, and was seeking to create a thaw in the Cold War.

I've scanned through parts of the book that I haven't actually read yet, as one does. And Talbot is so completely matter of fact about the CIA and Dulles being involved in the Kennedy assassination, and how JFK was believed to be a problem that had to be dealt with, that it was shocking to me.

I recommend this book and also One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Princeton historian Kevin Kruse. I think read together they present a very cogent depiction of a hunk of history which has today become a sort of unquestioned consensual reality, but which was actually consciously constructed by special interests. Another good book which details JFKs turn from cold war thinking is JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James W. Douglass

I mean the founder of Salon, David Talbot wrote a book on this stuff. They are hardly a right wing outlet.
https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174


FFS, Bill Moyers hosts an indepth article on the deep state on his personal site and he is as far left as you can go and be on tv.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/

JFK didn't trust the CIA. The Deep State as a label might be too cloke and dagger. The left tends to react based on emotion first....Maybe reference it as the Unelected Career Intelligence Agents or the Fourth Arm of Government.

Either of these are great :)

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-World-History-Intelligence/dp/0300238444

https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2COOWAA65R5ES&keywords=devils+chessboard&qid=1556071179&s=gateway&sprefix=devils+chess&sr=8-1

Washington: A life was so good. https://www.amazon.com/Washington-Life-Ron-Chernow/dp/0143119966/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497906081&sr=8-1&keywords=washington+a+life

Ron Chernow's Washington is supposed to be good - but it's a brick at over 900 pages.

Well I don't really know much about Detroit, I have only been there multiple times and have read the following books cover to cover.

Which is why I kind of thought everything I said about the city can be objectively proven as true. But what do I know?

https://www.amazon.com/Detroit-American-Autopsy-Charlie-LeDuff/dp/0143124463/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1499201761&sr=8-2&keywords=detroit+a+history

https://www.amazon.com/Detroit-Biography-Scott-Martelle/dp/1613748841

https://www.amazon.com/Detroit-Biography-Scott-Martelle/dp/1613748841

https://www.amazon.ca/Detroit-American-Autopsy-Charlie-LeDuff/dp/0143124463

This is a good book. From the point of view of a reporter living and working in Detroit.

I recently finished reading Caesar: Life of a Colossus, by Adrian Goldsworthy. It's a very well-written biography of Caesar. The author, Goldsworthy, has a real talent for storytelling, and this biography was always exciting. Highly recommended.

I see a lot of great books already listed. I'll offer a few lesser-known books that haven't been mentioned yet.

Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe series is brilliant for general readers of almost any age.

I see William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has been mentioned, but I find his book on France - The Collapse of the Third Republic - equally compelling.

For those who love Barb Tuchmann's Guns of August,
Dreadnought by Robert Massie and The Lions of July by William Jannen are excellent additions in covering the lead up to WWI.

For Roman History, I'd recommend Adrian Goldsworthy's Caesar: Life of a Colossus and Anthony Everitt's Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

There's an awful lot of fiction in this thread. My reading tends more toward the classical history end of things.

Favorites in this regard are:

Caesar: Life of a Colossus

Ghost on the Throne

The Fall of the Roman Empire

I'm on mobile. Here you go.

Caesar: Life of a Colossus https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300126891/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_WWXYBbP4J8G2Z

Some of the good Rome books I've read over the years:

In the Name of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy

Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy

The Complete Roman Army by Adrian Goldsworthy

Rubicon: the Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome by Alberto Angela

Now, as someone lucky enough to have lived 6 weeks in Rome, the best prep is to somehow get yourself to La Città Eterna and visit where it all went down. The Palatine Hill and the Appian Way are places with less tourists and allow you to contemplate the power and splendor of Rome.

What level are you at? If high school/secondary, Adrian Goldsworthy's Caesar should have all that you need. If you're in college, you should be doing some of this work yourself.

War by Sebastian Junger is a fantastic look into the War in Afghanistan. I feel like not many people have much of an idea of what the fighting is like over there and this really shines a light on it. At the time this was written the Korengal Valley was proclaimed to be the deadliest place on Earth.

Not saying it does. At all. Read the book, it was great. It is called "War"

If you like this move and haven't read the book that inspired it, Sebastian Junger's "War," add that to your "must read" list. Junger is brilliant. He also wrote "The Perfect Storm" and was a dear friend of Tim Hetherington, Restrepo's director.

I've read Infidel, War, and seen Restrepo. I read the story today on BBC, though I couldn't quite place where I heard that name before.

This title just made feel physically sick. RIP Tim Hetherington.

WAR by Sebastian Junger has been on my to-read list for some time. Rave reviews on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/WAR-Sebastian-Junger/dp/0446556246?tag=amaz98-20

Awesome book on Genghis Kahn and the empire after his death that I highly recommend:

Genghis Kahn And The Making Of The Modern World

I read this book. The mongols had a very efficient communication and administrative system. In addition, the mongols were very lenient towards cooperative tribes/cities under their control but ruthless towards uncooperative ones.

The Mongols are incorrectly lumped in with the regular form of barbarian as you might expect of a Gaul, or Viking.

Weatherford discusses in his book on Genghis Khan that any group which was willing to surrender would be treated kindly and added to the Mongolian Empire without bloodshed. As a token of his appreciation Genghis would take a wife from that group literally making them apart of his tribe.

http://www.amazon.com/Genghis-Khan-Making-Modern-World/dp/0609610627

horse archers vs. samurai, there's a great book on the mongols by jack weatherford link

I have to disagree. We have lots of reports of cities willingly opening their doors to Genghis rather than fight him because of how horribly he would treat civilian populations who resisted, not because he was nice. You are right that war atrocities were much more common back then and the standard for cruelty was much higher- but that is all the more reason to think he was especially horrible. If he was considered shocking and horrible by people back then who were more used to that kind of stuff, then we should consider him more horrible, not less. I mean, it takes a special kind of cruel to get Crusaders to freak out.

The reason he didn't have to lay siege all the time and put down rebellions is because of how cruel his conquests were, not because he was nicer than we think. You mentioned that the Mongols created their reputation but they did so by actually doing horrible things and then letting some survivors go to warn others. I recommend Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World or Dan Carlin's recent Hardcore History podcasts on the subject if you're interested.

Was gonna answer but then I noticed someone already did, so same thing but different source

Maybe cuz of "Maus"

This could be a very long list ... Will try to reign it in to some of my favourites. Most are popular enough that they won’t need explaining.

Springtime In Chernobyl

The Handmaid’s Tale: A Graphic Novel

Maus

Laika

Ichi-F: A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant


Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation

To Kill A Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel

Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Classics Graphic Novels)

The Hobbit Graphic Novel

Persepolis

The Kite Runner: A Graphic Novel

A Wrinkle In Time: A Graphic Novel

The Great Successor Kim Jong Un: a Political Cartoon, an Epic Comic of the Dark Kingdom and the Passing of Power to a Third Kim

Any of Guy Delisle’s travelogues

There's a pretty good Batman trilogy: Haunted Knight, The Long Halloween, and Dark Victory. It has more of the Gotham crime families in two of them, which is interesting. Also, I liked Frank Miller's Batman: Year One a lot.

If you also like graphic novels that aren't really "comics", I recommend Asterios Polyp (a man examines his life and a failing relationship through architecture and design), Maus I and II (a story about a Jewish family in the holocaust depicted as mice) and Persepolis (a memoir of a woman who grew up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution).

And by all means, for sure, read the Sandman books.

Half way through Undaunted Courage which is great so far. I actually bought it a couple months ago at the Fort Clatsop gift shop. It discusses alot of the leadup to the expedition and how it came about. The local history teachers that volunteered there as re-enactors recommended it

Undaunted Courage is one of my favorites. It's about the journey of Lewis and Clarke, but it also explores Lewis' interactions with Thomas Jefferson and provides examples of how life was back in their day. There's some crazy shit that happened on that expedition that your high school history class wouldn't dare to cover.

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is another good one. It's about the New World before Europeans had touched it. It also goes into the conquest and some would say destruction of the old way of life. It's written in a novel format so it's a very easy read.

I was an english major and to be honest, Ernest Hemingway was very difficult for me to get into. The Prince is short but you need to be in the right mindset. Meditations is very useful but it can be repetitive. If I were you I would focus on books that have a sense of adventure to them, then mix philosophy into that.

Related to US History, Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose is a great read, I would highly recommend it.

Congrats on getting hired!!! I'd recommend a mix of PD/teaching books and content. When you get bored of one switch to the other. Both are equally important (unless you feel stronger in one area than the other).

For PD, I'd recommend: Teach Like a Pirate, Blended, The Wild Card, and the classic Essential 55. Another one on grading is Fair Isn't Always Equal - this one really changed how I thought about grading in my classes.

As far as content, you have a couple ways to go - review an overview of history like Lies My Teacher Told Me, the classic People's History, or Teaching What Really Happened, or you can go with a really good book on a specific event or time period to make that unit really pop in the classroom. The Ron Chernow books on Hamilton, Washington, or Grant would be great (but long). I loved Undaunted Courage about Lewis & Clark and turned that into a really great lesson.

Have a great summer and best of luck next year!!

I have to recommend this wonderful book by David McCullough. Lots of great insights into Washington's thinking. https://www.amazon.com/1776-David-McCullough/dp/0743226720

Before anyone decides where they stand in relation to gun control in America, I'd suggest that they at least read a bit into the history and founding of America.

This is a great book and easy read by a Pulitzer Prize winning author:

https://www.amazon.com/1776-David-McCullough/dp/0743226720

I've got my own opinions of course, but give that book a read and come to your own conclusions.

Che held free clinics for rural farmers in Cuba even while they were fighting the Cuban army. Free immunizations, checkups etc...the majority of rural farmers in Cuba were black. I assume you are a product of the American school system so all you know is what the state department tells you. Read a few books....http://www.amazon.ca/Che-Guevara-A-Revolutionary-Life/dp/080214411X...http://www.amazon.ca/The-Motorcycle-Diaries-American-Journey/dp/1876175702...http://www.amazon.ca/Our-America-Theirs-Alliance-Progress/dp/1876175818. These are just the start of what got me reading about this man.

https://www.amazon.com/Che-Guevara-Revolutionary-Jon-Anderson/dp/080214411X

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lee_Anderson

1. In primele 20 de secunde cand foloseste moneda ca argument nu zice asta.
   
   
2. Nu gasesc pe internet acum, dar o sa mai caut. Sursele mele sunt aceste doua carti foarte bune: http://www.amazon.com/Augustus-Revolutionary-Emperor-Adrian-Goldsworthy/dp/0297864254
   
   http://www.amazon.com/Augustus-Life-Romes-First-Emperor/dp/0812970586
   
   EDIT: Gata, daca textul la care face referie e asta:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclogue_4. Pe wikipedia zice doar ca se crede ca se face referie la copilul lui Antoniu cu Octavia, dar in cartile de mai sus se spune ca era vorba si de copilul lui Augustus cu Scriboia. Ambele cupluri asteptau un copil, iar Virgil se astepta ca Augustus sa aiba un baiat, iar cand Scribonia a nascut-o pe Iulia, propagandistilor Augutieni le era frica, daca Antoniu, marele inamic a lui Augustus ar fi avut un baiat. Din fericire pentru Virgil si Octavia a nascut o fata.
   
   
3. Zice: "And by the time that Jesus died, an expanded Judea was under the rule of Herod Antipater" cand el "conducea" ce e cu roz!, nu e prea expanded
   
   Sincer nu stiu ce sa zic la ...
   
   Nu m-am bagat in seama ca sa imi dovedesc superioritatea, nu aveam de ce. Am inceput prin a zice ca faza cu moneda nu are sens si ca videoclipul are niste greseli. Tu m-ai intrebat care, iar eu am raspuns.
   
   Nu am discutat teologie, doar istorie. De ce ai crede ca sunt chiar asa de religios?:)
   
   

I HIGHLY suggest reading kelly's book. Its incredible

http://www.amazon.com/Kelly-More-Than-Share-All/dp/0874744911/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

Yes, and "Kelly: More Than My Share of It All" by the old man himself.

I'd give my left nut just to be able to go an work back to Kelley's time/era... or at least back to an environment where MERIT actually matters more than ass-kissing (and when everything wasn't decided by "consensus" [of idiots].)

As /u/rabidstoat has already recommended, Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon is a fascinating read. One of the authors (Michael P. Ghiglieri) also co-wrote its sister book, Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite. Both books manage to not be overly morbid (tales of near-misses are included, so it isn't just one death after another) and actually seemed uplifting to me. I came away with a real sense of respect for the wilderness; if we are aware of the dangers and risks every time we venture out, however seemingly remote, our chances of survival in a "worst case scenario" improves.

There are other books in a similar vein that chronicle all (or most) deaths in specific wilderness areas, such as Not Without Peril: 150 Years Of Misadventure On The Presidential Range Of New Hampshire. These are good too, but often seem to be a collection of first-hand accounts and historical vignettes. Ghiglieri manages to weave all of his information into a larger overarching narrative with a satisfying conclusion. I'm really hoping he does another one of these books!

I'm Eastern Sierra so I'm partial to things that are relevant to my area. Off the Wall, Death in Yosemite is really good as it catalogs all of the deaths in Yosemite. Drownings, falls, exposure, murder, etc. This is in the same format as the Grand Canyon book.

The Death Valley Germans is a terrific Internet rabbit hole to spend a few hours in.

https://www.amazon.com/Off-Wall-Yosemite-Michael-Ghiglieri/dp/0970097360

https://www.amazon.com/Off-Wall-Yosemite-Michael-Ghiglieri/dp/0970097360

There's one for Yosemite as well.

When I first saw this article from Washington Post, its title was:
> James Comey’s memoir: Trump fixates on proving lewd dossier allegations false

Here are some other articles about this story:

• Axios: Comey compares Trump to mob boss - Axios
  
• thedailybeast.com: James Comey: John Kelly Called Trump ‘Dishonorable’ for Firing Me
  
• CNN: Exclusive: Inside the GOP plan to discredit Comey
  
• New York Post: Trump asked me to investigate ‘pee tape’ to reassure Melania
  
• CNN: The effort to discredit Comey's book is fascinating
  
• The Hill: Five things to know from Comey's new book
  
• USA Today: President Trump 'untethered to truth'
  
• Bloomberg: Comey Likens Trump to Mafia Boss in Excerpts of Tell-All Book
  
• HuffPost: Comey Memoir Claims Trump Was Obsessed With Disproving 'Pee Tape' Allegation
  
• CNBC: Read the most revealing excerpts from ex-FBI Director Comey's new book
  
• wpxi.com: James Comey's new book 'A Higher Loyalty' scathing account of Trump presidency, character
  
• Slate Magazine: Brace Yourself, James Comey Wrote a Memoir. Here's Some of What It Says, “the Golden Showers Thing” Included.
  
• ABC News: Comey book claims President Trump sought loyalty like mafia boss 'Sammy the Bull's' induction ceremony
  
• USA Today: James Comey's book about FBI, Russia has Trump, White House on edge
  
• newsweek.com: Trump Asked Comey to Investigate ‘Pee Tape’ to Prove to Melania Allegation Was False, Former FBI Director Claims
  
• amazon.com: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership: James Comey: 9781250192455: Amazon.com: Books
  
• U.S. News & World Report: Comey Says in Book Trump Denied Allegations of Lewd Behavior: Washington Post
  
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The chart I linked to you earlier shows that the United States started to recover in 1933, and was in the midst of a strong economic boom in 1939, years before Pearl Harbor.

How do you respond to these undisputed facts? With a nonsense book quote.

First, let's clear the air, Mr. Panamanian expert on the "documents in your library of congress", the Library of Congress is a LIBRARY, it contains all kinds of books, including the one you cited without attribution. Here it is.

You want to focus on 1 statistic and 1 statistic only: unemployment. First, unemployment is not all that matters. It is one of many factors, and an economy can grow and be strong even with significant unemployment, which is exactly what happened in the US in the 1930s. Employment took time to catch up.

Second, unemployment was already rapidly dropping before World War 2, and did not only start to drop BECAUSE OF World War 2. In fact, the war caused a labor shortage:

>So great was the demand for labor that millions of retired people, housewives, and students entered the labor force, lured by patriotism and wages.[12] The shortage of grocery clerks caused retailers to convert from service at the counter to self-service. With new shorter women clerks replacing taller men, some stores lowered shelves to 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m). Before the war most groceries, dry cleaners, drugstores, and department stores offered home delivery service. The labor shortage and gasoline and tire rationing caused most retailers to stop delivery.

In Panama, do your parents teach you to insult your betters constantly? Maybe that is why you are such a poor backwater country.

Sure thing man:

• http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409
  
• https://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-Raw-Economic-Damaged/dp/1416592377/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542634508&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=new+deal+raw+deal
  
• https://fee.org/articles/fdrs-folly-how-roosevelt-and-his-new-deal-prolonged-the-great-depression/
  

Detroit: An American Autopsy

"Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches through the ruins for clues to its fate, his family’s, and his own. Detroit is where his mother’s flower shop was firebombed in the pre-Halloween orgy of arson known as Devil’s Night; where his sister lost herself to the west side streets; where his brother, who once sold subprime mortgages with skill and silk, now works in a factory cleaning Chinese-manufactured screws so they can be repackaged as “May Be Made in United States.”

https://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-Raw-Economic-Damaged/dp/1416592377

read the reviews, highly acclaimed as objective from both parties lol. but let me guess, you wont read it

Libertarian writes about the deleterious effects of regulatory capture that can only be resolved through deregulation.
Everyone else hears: "deregulate it all and it'll magically work out somehow, regulation EEVVIILLLL"

This is why I don't really bother trying to convince anyone of anything anymore. If we write a short explanation of our views then we're idiots that didn't think through our position, if we post a lengthy argument, then "TLDR". So how can we win? Besides, being wrong is politically expedient.

George Sigler's, "The Theory of Economic Regulation" shows how regulation in general inevitably benefits wealthy corporations.

The Great Depression was basically a case study in how insane amounts of regulation and micromanagement can cripple a society. I recommend New Deal or Raw Deal if you just want to see convincing anecdote.

The solution is simple but political suicide; Instead of telling people how to do things, society should instead ensure that people are simply providing the good or service they advertise, and not infringing on other's property rights.

Or more simply; Don't lie, don't touch other people's shit, mind your own business.

https://www.amazon.com/Bonhoeffer-Pastor-Martyr-Prophet-Spy/dp/1595552464

That's a must-read.

No. I am 49.

If books are a good idea than I would recommend something by G.K. Chesterton or C.S. Lewis.

Or this: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy My aunt bought it for me but I haven't read it yet. I here it's good. He was a Lutheran pastor in Germany during Hitler.

Or a nice crucifix (if he's high church) or a cross (if he's low church).

Finally, maybe a Bach CD. Bach was Lutheran. St. Matthew's Passion would be good.

The Law - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936594315/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1936594315

Economics in one lesson - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517548232/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0517548232

That which is seen and is not seen - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1453857508/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1453857508

Our enemy, the state - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E28SUM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001E28SUM

How capitalism save america - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400083311/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1400083311

New Deal or Raw Deal - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416592377/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1416592377

Lessons for the Young Economist - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933550880/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1933550880

For a New Liberty - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610162641/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1610162641

What Has Government Done to Our Money? - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/146997178X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=146997178X

America's Great Depression - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/146793481X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=146793481X

Defending the Undefendable - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933550171/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1933550171

Metldown - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985879/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1596985879

The Real Lincoln - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761526463/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0761526463

The Road to Serfdom - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226320553/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0226320553

Capitalism and Freedom - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226264211/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0226264211

Radicals for Capitalism - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586485725/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1586485725

Production Versus Plunder - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979987717/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0979987717

Atlas Shrugged - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452011876/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0452011876

The Myth of the Rational Voter - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0691138737/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thmariwi-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0691138737

Foutainhead - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452273331/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0452273331&linkCode=as2&tag=thmariwi-20

Anthem - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452281253/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0452281253&linkCode=as2&tag=thmariwi-20

There are of course more books, but this should last you a few years!

Fear, Bob Woodward

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Hey, not to be the "actually" guy. However, you can make something true by believing. its called the tinker bell effect. Money is the main example. 20 dollars is worth 20 dollars because we all believe it is.

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Sometimes the opposite is true, the reverse Tinkerbell effect, where the more you believe something the less true it becomes. If more people believe that driving is the safest way to travel, then more people will drive, and they will drive more carelessly.

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Here is a video if you get bored

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But Trump is a moron... I read in a book, he wanted the treasury to print more money to pay off the debts

He refused to fund the campaign transition team because "it's my money"^(1) and he thought they were wasting it. It was the campaign's money and it was the responsibility of the campaign to fund the transition team.


1: from the first chapter of https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Trump-White-Bob-Woodward/dp/1501175513

His book about is Detroit is pretty fucking great. It's obvious he loves his hometown, but hates what it has become.

I highly recommend it if you want to know more about Detroit's collapse from the people that live there.

>I want Trump to testify. It blows my mind he didn't have to for Mueller. Hillary testified for hours on end. Why can't he? Not enough stamina?

Don John couldn't pass a ten minute mock interview from his own lawyer to prep him for talking to Robert Mueller. John Dowd sat D.J.T. down, posed a couple of likely questions Mueller would ask and Trump lied directly to his face, rambled incoherently and then argued with his own law advisor about the answers. That is hilarious and incredible at the same time.

Trump can't be allowed to take the stand. It would be perjury in seconds and he would be in an orange jumpsuit immediately... and that's not my opinion, that is his own legal counsel saying that: Source

Here's the book, if you want the full horror: Amazon link

I highly recommend "The Good War" if you haven't already read it. It's an oral history from a wide selection of people. It's actually what World War Z (the book, not the movie) was based on, conceptually.

I don't have five but this really changed how i viewed WW2.
Really opened my eyes how everyday people thought of the war.


http://smile.amazon.com/Good-War-Oral-History-World/dp/1565843436/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1412093019&sr=8-3&keywords=studs+terkel

if you didn't know, Charlie has an awesome book regarding his home town, Detroit, aptly named (even more so in recent events), Detroit: An American Autopsy. show some support, it's a really great book and I think that if you love him as a reporter, you'll love him as an author.


http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1594205345

>Yes!! Stories told by people that were there! Amazing! I added it to my wishlist!

If you like this one (really good suggestion, btw!), then you might also like The Good War: An Oral History of World War II which is a collection of oral experiences during the war with vastly different perspectives.

The Good War by Studs Terkel


http://www.amazon.com/Good-War-Oral-History-World/dp/1565843436/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1449096298&sr=8-3&keywords=Terkel

http://www.amazon.com/Bonhoeffer-Pastor-Martyr-Prophet-Spy/dp/1595552464

I was referring mostly to one particular character in the film who represented the voice of those who felt the Nazis had the right idea, not the film as a whole. But that opinion went right up to the top, even if it wasn't always out in the open.

Check out this excellent book about the people who basically set up what is still with us in a far more powerful form.

https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174

I grew up in occupied Germany and my dad worked with many relatively high ranking Nazis who escaped punishment as the amnesties expanded multiple times and they moved right back into positions of power in the postwar state. And all that Gladio shit, especially in Italy, that was the Europe I grew up in.

Whatever good vs evil narrative being manufactured for the masses back home, the US state was always far more comfortable with the Nazis than the remnants of any of the socialist parties that opposed them before the war.

Nenshi is quickly becoming another Kilpatrick.

If anyone cares about the future of Calgary, I highly recommend this book which describes in much gory detail what happens when incompetent AND progressive politicians get their paws on the public money:

https://www.amazon.ca/Detroit-American-Autopsy-Charlie-LeDuff/dp/0143124463

Give the book War (Sebastion Junger) a read. It's not an Afghan insurgency we are fighting. Most of the enemy are being imported from other countries through Pakistan. Foreign men are paying the Taliban to come in and shoot at Americans.

http://www.amazon.com/WAR-Sebastian-Junger/dp/0446556246

Junger is one of the journalists in Restrepo. It's not a pro-american book.

> I on't know about him but I personally can't commit to longer storylines because I think life is too short to stick with a single story for weeks or months, when you can come up with something new every other day.

I appreciate your honest comment, but I can't help but think that some - of - the - best - stories simply need a longer effort to be narrated, or you're stuck in a much more shallow world of storytelling

>Prove Guevara killed thousands or kill yourself.

What, exactly, do you want me to produce in order to show Che killed "thousands" of people, including women and children? Do I have to show you that he shot the people himself? Ordered their deaths? Ordered the attacks on villages which resulted in their deaths? Involved in a regime which killed thousands? What is necessary?

>a single credible source

Must be an interesting definition of "credible." He must mean, "I have yet to see a source which I cannot dismiss or ignore trying desperately to defend my preconceived bias."

>executed an innocent

"executed" as opposed to ordered people to do things which resulted in death. And "innocent" as opposed to "killed thousands including women and children." Come on now, you're smarter than this. This is barely even responsive to my post and exposes your thought process as you desperately try to protect your beliefs on this topic.

And Jon Lee Anderson himself most certainly admitted that Che sometimes summarily executed people suspected of spying or informing... including being responsible for and participating in military operations which resulted in the deaths of thousands of people. Come on now kiddo, even Anderson (who himself admits he great admiration for Che) admits to these things in A Revolutionary Life. Please read it.

I would gladly produce evidence to prove my assertions, but your going to have to promise me that you will never, ever spout this incorrect, false bullshit again.

Sorry for a lack of learning materials, but I do have a few biographical pieces:

I liked Serenade to the Big Bird by Bert Stiles. It reads a bit like a diary, but is, in fact, a fictional (yet very real) account of Bert's time in the right seat of a B-17. He made it through his 25 missions and was reassigned to P-51s. Unfortunately, he was lost to target fixation/CFIT near the end of the war in Europe. Anyway, his book isn't a great work of literature, but it does very successfully capture the emotion of the school boys who were flying those bombers into hell.

Another, more famous bomber pilot's account of the war as seen through the Italian front, The Wild Blue follows Senator and Presidential candidate George McGovern and his B-24 crew through the war. Much better written than Serenade, but tinged with the politically correct censorship of a politicians memory. Still a wonderful read.

If you like the SR-71, the U-2, the F-104, the Constellation, the P-80, the P-38, and/or the Electra, you may be interested in Clarence 'Kelly' Johnson's autobiography, More than my Share of it All. It's short, direct, and cuts straight to the highlight reel of Kelly's life, which still makes it a substantial book. If you don't know, he was the lead engineer at Lockheed and later Skunkworks (when it became a full-time division) for most of his adult life, which means his hands were in every major Lockheed project from WWII until his retirement in the 80's. He has an interesting take on things, and can come across as a bit self-important and McCarthy-ish in his patriotism, but did lead a very interesting life.

edit: also Silent Rescue. Has few redeeming qualities unless you know the guy who wrote it. Then it becomes amazing. (Don't spend your money on this.) Just felt the need to float that title.

You got whooshed bruh, read this book if you want to know more it’s fantastic but it only touches the surface on the corruption that is in Detroit.https://www.amazon.com/Detroit-American-Autopsy-Charlie-LeDuff/dp/1594205345/ref=asc_df_1594205345_nodl/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312045581420&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6885033396011602815&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019544&hvtargid=pla-524457027045&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=62837065180&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312045581420&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6885033396011602815&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019544&hvtargid=pla-524457027045

Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward