Thursday Reading and Recommendations is intended as bookish free-for-all, for the discussion and recommendation of all books historical, or tangentially so. Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:
Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion of history and books, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.
Just finished another Ron Chernow biography, having read Grant, Hamilton and Washington. Really, really loved them.
Any other recommendations for presidential biographies? I’d love to find a good Roosevelt book (either one) if there is a good one.
Just got my copy of General Wrengels Memoir, wanted to know other people's opinions of it before I read it.
How good are Michela Wong's books?
How is Gholi Majd’s trilogy on the Iran “famines”?