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The new American history by Wilfred M. McClay has had excellent reviews and I’m giving it as Christmas gifts, but I haven’t read it yet.
Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story
Another I like is John Steele Gordon’s
An Empire of Wealth:
The Epic History of American Economic Power
Essential:
The Black Book of Communism
Crimes, Terror, Repression
Communism
A History
By Richard Pipes
The Black Book is huge, over 700 pages, Richard Pipes book is small at 160 pages, but dense. Read both.
It’s clearly time to know a lot more about China than we do. The unknown story of:
MAO
by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
Two from Bernard Lewis:
The Middle East:
A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years
What Went Wrong
The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
And I like this:
Voices of 1776
The Story of the American Revolution in the Words
of Those Who Were There
by Richard Wheeler
And let me add:
1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
By Charles C. Mann
American Elephants 