books about: 1885

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1885

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Adam Hochschild

Mariner Books, 1999

Be careful who you sit down to tea with
This is a brutal history of the colonization of the Belgian Congo beginning in the 1890's. Long after slavery was unilaterally condemned on the planet earth, we find that King Leopold and the tiny country of Belgium has managed to take ownership of a chunk of the ...

Jazz Age Beauties: The Lost Collection of Ziegfeld Photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston

Robert Hudovernik

Universe, 2006

For Hollywood Fans Too
This book is gorgeous. The photos are reproduced quite well, and the book looks and feels like quality. Included is a nice history of Ziegfeld Follies, along with brief biographies of many of the women. Julie Newmar provides a fascinating Foreword (her mother was ...

War As I Knew It

George S. Patton

Mariner Books, 1995

A New Angle on Patton
Whereas we've all heard the weak-kneed, faint-hearted, army deserter types condemn Patton as bloodthirsty, this book reveals Patton the intellectual, the man who believes deeply in his mission and destiny, and one who is prepared to sacrifice life and limb in order to ...

Ulysses S. Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, ...

Ulysses S. Grant

Library of America, 1990

A Masterpiece
This book is a must-read for any Civil War or American history buff. Grant's writing is consistently clear, elegant, beautiful. He gives an engaging account of his wartime experiences that are accurate to the best of his ability, and he writes with introspection and ...

The Last Full Measure

Jeff Shaara

Ballantine Books, 2000

How the hell did it get this far?
The whole thing could have been avoided if both sides had shown a little more restraint. But, it came to this. Jeff Sharra has written a superb sequal to his Dad's "The Killer Angels", and brought a fitting end to a sad story. I consider it to be a four book series, ...

Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory (Gingrich and Forstchen's Civil War Trilogy)

Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, ...

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2007

Those believing Lee's victory at Gettysburg seals the war are in for a bloody surprise
William R. Forstchen and Newt Gingrich continue and end the marvelous Civil War alternate-history trilogy in the same style and sensitivity shown in the previous two volumes. As with the previous two, battle scenes can sometimes be compared to a Steven Pressfield ...

Patton: A Genius for War

Carlo D'este

Harper Perennial, 1996

The natural and other lessons
Patton is often described as "controversial". To those who have never fought in war, or perhaps even just engaged in competitive sports, or who otherwise have only a sort of normal, everyday idea about how people ought to act, I suppose he is: Arrogant, sometimes ...

It Can't Happen Here

Sinclair Lewis

NAL Trade, 2005

Be Militant for at least Once
Lee Roscoe has recently (© 2005) adapted Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here to the stage. This play is a militant agitprop work and is available to people who want to produce it for an audience in a militant perspective to fight against the present erring ...

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

Isak Dinesen

Vintage, 1989

Charming, Oblique
I came to this book expecting to read one woman's personal experience of living in Africa, and that's what I found. There is no sociology here, and very little historical context. She does not illuminate THE African experience. She records HER African experience. ...

Out of Africa (Modern Library)

Isak Dinesen

Modern Library, 1992

"Out of Africa": The Book, the Movie, the Feminist
The book, "Out of Africa," is a memoir of the Danish Baroness Karen Blixen's habitation near Nairobi in Kenya from 1914 to 1931 on a fertile 6000-acre coffee plantation, "at the foot of the Ngong Hills" (1992: 3). Blixen writes under the pen-name Isak Dinesen. Karen ...

The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook)

Ezra Pound

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1996

To Mr. Meyerhofer,
Ezra Pound is the greatest American poet. I love your condemnation of him. And I do not wish to thought of as sarcastic because the controversy is half of the aura about Mr. Pound's dynamic presence in the poetry of the past century. Robert Graves called Pound a ...

A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captivities in the West 1830-1885

Gregory Michno, Susan Michno

Caxton Press, 2007

I'm not surprised...
I'm not surprised that A Fate Worse Than Death by Gregory and Susan Michno has fallen between the cracks in terms of being publicized. We live in such a "PC" world that any book that contradicts the "noble savage" theory, even if based on fact, is largely ignored. ...

Arundel

Kenneth Roberts

Down East Books, 1995

Roberts at his Best
Wow! This book was absolutely amazing! It was so good, that I had to put it down for a while, go and do something else while I let it digest. Wonderful stuff. After a bumpy start -with a rather mushy love scene between the 10 year old Mary Mallinson and Steven ...

Ezra Pound: Poems and Translations (Library of America)

Ezra Pound

Library of America, 2003

my how the mighty have fallen, but to what benefit?
Not long ago English Departments were busy with dissertation after dissertation on Ezra Pound. At the time, many complained of a Pound Factory or Pound Industry. Yet today, there is not one Amazon review of this important collection of modern poetry. We all know the ...

Nimitz

E. B. Potter

Naval Institute Press, 2008

The single most important man in U.S. Naval History
I bought this book at the Navy Exchange on a whim. Two pages into this book and I was hooked. After 20 years in the Navy after reading this book, I can see Nimitz's impact everywhere I look. Most biographies are written by hero worshiping sychophants, or worse ...