funny.

i have a book called lincoln and greely by harlen horner - 1953....it is from the library of al smith.

Just finished Marty Appel's "Now Pitching for the Yankees" - about running the press office for the Yankees, the Hall of Fame, and ghost writing Bowie Kuhn's autobiography. Lots of great anecdotes, nice inside look at the organization.

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Great collection, dino27. Here are some of my favorite history books, unfortunately none of them signed. I didn't include biographies.

The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon
The Second World War Winston Churchill
A Stillness At Appomattox Bruce Catton
The Guns of August Barbara Tuchman
Hiroshima John Hersey
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer
The Black Jacobins C.L.R. James
The Histories Herodotus
The Great Game Peter Hopkirk
Search for Modern China Jonathan Spence
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Dee Brown
A History of the Arab Peoples Albert Hourani
Guns, Germs & Steel Jared Diamond
The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power Daniel Yergin
A Bright Shining Lie Neil Sheehan
1776 David McCullough
The Civil War: A Narrative Shelby Foote
Battle Cry of Freedom James McPherson
The Scramble for Africa Thomas Pakenham
Nuremberg Diary Gustave Gilbert
We Were Soldiers Once... And Young Harold Moore
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Hard Times Studs Terkel
History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides

i have a signed copy of we were soldiers once.......signed by 4 of the major participants.
all of my signed books came from used bookstores.....just open the books and look and you will be surprised...even shocked sometimes.
not a fan but on sat i got karl rove's memoir signed.
the jimmy carter book i got for 50 cent.
i find signed books from all genres.
for example, also on saturday i got a book about the greatest tennis matches of the 20th century that was signed by chris evert.

good to know

i shall sign all my books from now on

to enhance their value

before i return them to the library

But what about Barthes, Derrida and the Death of the Author? Of course, Derrida keeps putting his name on HIS books and I assume getting royalties as an author, so I guess he means it metaphorarically.

Posted by thunder1008 on 6/3/2019 1:52:00 AM (view original):
Great collection, dino27. Here are some of my favorite history books, unfortunately none of them signed. I didn't include biographies.

The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon
The Second World War Winston Churchill
A Stillness At Appomattox Bruce Catton
The Guns of August Barbara Tuchman
Hiroshima John Hersey
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer
The Black Jacobins C.L.R. James
The Histories Herodotus
The Great Game Peter Hopkirk
Search for Modern China Jonathan Spence
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Dee Brown
A History of the Arab Peoples Albert Hourani
Guns, Germs & Steel Jared Diamond
The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power Daniel Yergin
A Bright Shining Lie Neil Sheehan
1776 David McCullough
The Civil War: A Narrative Shelby Foote
Battle Cry of Freedom James McPherson
The Scramble for Africa Thomas Pakenham
Nuremberg Diary Gustave Gilbert
We Were Soldiers Once... And Young Harold Moore
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Hard Times Studs Terkel
History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides

Thunder1008, great list, not a bad book on it. And someone else who knows the Black Jacobins !

Heather's Fall of the Roman Empire is hard to put down (his later books about the aftermath I found boring and couldn't finish though).

Also William Hitchcock's "The Struggle for Europe" - even though you know what happens next you want to keep reading. Not to be confused with a book by Wilmot of the same title. That one is about WWII, but Hitchcock's is about Europe from WWII to today, or at least to a few years ago.

for civil war buffs.....most battle sites have great museum / stores with great book selections including many highly specialized books signed by the authors.
great gift possibilities.

its a long drive to Glorieta Pass

Here's another gem plucked from a neighborhood "free library" (and a first edition, too): Old Love (1979) by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Later period short stories from a master of the form, fairy tales of lust and salvation (lots of old people, not much love). Singer creates his own moral universe filled with humiliations and human weaknesses, but also humor. “The Bus” was my favorite story here.

its a keeper......dont toss it back.

Thanks, italyprof. The Black Jacobins is one of my favorites, along with Peter Hopkirk's The Great Game, another underrated classic. I'll have to check out the Hitchcock book. Here are some favorite biographies w/ a few random nonfiction books sprinkled in --

Yankee From Olympus Catherine Drinker Bowen
Abraham Lincoln Carl Sandburg
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Jon Meacham
The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe
The Best & The Brightest David Halberstam
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Seven Pillars of Wisdom T. E. Lawrence
Plutarch's Lives
Churchill: A Life Martin Gilbert
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley Peter Guralnick
The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert A. Caro
The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer
Hit Men: Power Brokers & Fast Money Inside the Music Business Fredric Dannen
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House Arthur Schlesinger
Truman David McCullough
Washington: A Life Ron Chernow
Death in the Afternoon Ernest Hemingway
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert A. Caro
The Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell
Darkness Visible William Styron
The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer
John Adams David McCullough
Greed & Glory on Wall Street Ken Auletta
King of the World: Muhammed Ali, The Rise of an American Hero David Remnick
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China Ezra Vogel
The Making of the President 1960 Theodore H. White
The Boys of Summer Roger Kahn
Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy
Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr.

barnes and noble is about to be sold to a hedge fund for 476 million.
there is no business in book business...no business no more.

Amazon. I just ordered:

looks good......sounds like a boonesboro.

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barnes and noble is about to be sold to a hedge fund for 476 million.
there is no business in book business...no business no more.

Nothing about it is appealing.

besides books