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The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848

6 reviews
Martin Dugard

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

Read It
A history book that you cannot put down. Dugard impeccably details the landscape of war and the tremendous strength, loyalty, leadership and courage of young men faced with insurmountable circumstances. The writing is fluid, informative, and rich. One of the many strengths of The Training Ground is the manner in which the chaos and brutality of war is contrasted with individuals and how their ...

Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War

101 reviews
Jeff Shaara

Ballantine Books, 2001

I like the book and It should be made into a Movie
I enjoyed the book, Gone for Soldiers, because it helps to describe how the American and Mexican soldiers lived and faced during the Mexican War 1846-1848. In addition, it describes some of the battles of the Mexican War, under Winfield Scott, from Vera Cruz to the gates of Mexico City. I hope that this book will be made into a motion picture /made-for-television movie in the future, like Gods ...

The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City (Chicago Visions and Revisions)

3 reviews
Carl Smith

University Of Chicago Press, 2007

Gripping, tightly written book
As an architecture tour guide, I've read "The Plan of Chicago" and know some Chicago history. Smith succinctly summarizes prevailing circumstances so the reader knows the context of the development of The Plan, but he deftly includes colorful and precise detail. The book is under 200 pages, reflecting a distinctive self-restraint by this distinguished scholar at Northwestern University. Moving ...

Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846-1861
Michael L. Collins

University of Oklahoma Press, 2008

Rather than bringing peace to the region, the Texas Rangers contributed to the violence and were often brutal in their injustices against Spanish-speaking inhabitants, who dubbed them los diablos Tejanos - the Texas devils. In revealing a barbaric code of conduct on the Rio Grande frontier, Collins shows that much of the Ranger Myth doesn't hold up to close historical scrutiny.

When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846

4 reviews
Ramon Gutierrez

Stanford University Press, 1991

Excellent Work
This is an excellent book. While the book has received some criticism, anyone who has read them will realize that they have little value. The passionate nature of the attacks on this book make it obvious that the attitude they are written in is anything but scholarly. It's true that there are assumptions and subtleties that could trouble some people, but they should be no problem for the ...

Faberge's Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire

3 reviews
Toby Faber

Random House, 2008

Not Just Fancy Jewelry
There are many books (and even some websites) devoted to pictures of the jeweled eggs produced by Fabergé for the last two czars of Russia to give to their czarinas on Easter. _Fabergé's Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces that Outlived an Empire_ (Random House) by Toby Faber is not like those. Sure, it has photos, but only of some of the fifty eggs that were so given. The point ...

Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express (I Can Read Book 3)

5 reviews
Eleanor Coerr

HarperTrophy, 1996

Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express
The story set the pace right from the first page. It was one adventure after another. The bright illustrations set the tone for each adventure. This was the first book my son said he couldn't wait to get to the next chapter ( it's set up in only 4 chapters), because he had to know what happened to Bill Cody.

Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan 1858 (Royal Diaries)

15 reviews
Kathryn Lasky

Scholastic Inc., 2004

One of the greatest eras of change!!
12 year old, Kazunomiya is a virtual prisoner living in luxury behind the vast walls of the Japanese Palace.She is born in the year of the fire horse, which is a bad omen, especially when her father died after her birth, so they made her elder her age by one year.Kazunomiya, who lives her methodical life behind the palace walls, is going to find a new change in her life. Paled skin people ...

Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana

4 reviews

Crown, 2007

A Real Page-Turner
Highly recommend this book. Harriet had a celebrated life like her more famous older sister, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Harriet's world included a who's-who of late 18th-early 19th century English society. If you liked Amanda Foreman's book on Georgiana, you will really enjoy this book on Harriet...a star in her own right.

Zachary Taylor: The 12th President, 1849-1850 (The American Presidents)

4 reviews
John S. D. Eisenhower, Arthur M. Schlesinger

Times Books, 2008

Super American
Another home run in the superb American President's series. John Eisenhower paints a picture of Zachary Taylor that leaves us wishing he was among today's candidates for President. Had he lived, he may have been able to head off the Civil War, we will never know. In short, a great biography of a great man.

The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience

6 reviews
J. S. Holliday, William Swain

University of Oklahoma Press, 2002

Swain's personal account feels like a novel
Thank heavens for people like William Swain who took the time to record their personal stories and let it become, in a sense, a first-person history tale to people in the 21st century. Swain goes into great detail about his trials and tribulations and you begin to care so much about him, it almost becomes a novel. It accidentally sets the reader up for disappointment in the end by Swain reaching ...

Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont

18 reviews
Comte de Lautréamont

Exact Change, 1994

Step Into Darkness
I like my writers drunk, blasphemous, decadent and French. If any of that list sounds even vaguely familiar then this is the book for you. Set the absinthe fountain to a slow drip, light some candles and prepare to tour an alchemical end-of-the-century underworld.

So Far from God: The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848

26 reviews
John S. D. Eisenhower

University of Oklahoma Press, 2000

History of one of the first American war crimes
There have been many war crimes committed by the United States throughout its history, but the war with Mexico in the mid 1840's has been one that is almost completely unknown. It is not mentioned in debates on the ethics of pre-emptive war, nor discussed much at all in the history books (but thankfully this is changing). This book gives the reader a view of the U.S.-Mexico war from the ...

The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846

7 reviews
Charles Sellers

Oxford University Press, USA, 1994

Significant but not light reading
Market revolution fills the need for a signifiant economic history on the development of American capitalism.

Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers

9 reviews
Robert M. Utley

Berkley Trade, 2003

Best Book Ever on the Early History of the Texas Rangers
Having just read Utley's second volume on the rangers, Lone Star Lawmen (I read this book when it came out), and found it a worthy sequel to this one, excellent in every way, I decided to see what Amazon readers had said about the first volume, Lone Star Justice. It appears that some folks don't like giving up cherished myth and folklore in favor of real history. And there are one or two who ...

Zachary Taylor : Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest

10 reviews
K. Jack Bauer

Louisiana State University Press, 1993

I enjoyed this book
Very Enjoyable. An easy read. President Taylor is a cousin of mine, and it was fun to learn a little bit about him. Fred Clark www.reverbnation.com/fredclark www.myspace.com/fredclarkmusic

War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Brian DeLay

Yale University Press, 2008

In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they called ?the barbarians? descended into a terrifying cycle of violence. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes unleashed by American expansion, Indian warriors launched devastating attacks across ten Mexican states. Raids and counter-raids claimed thousands of lives, ruined much of northern Mexico?s economy, depopulated its countryside, ...

The Eyes of Texas (Lone Star Legacy #3)

2 reviews
Gilbert Morris

Thomas Nelson, 2005

Family Survival and Togetherness
This book is wonderful. It shows how a family together can face any and all situations. It may be fictional but it can be true if a family sticks together it can over come all odds and be strong because of it. Show love and respect to each other and help each other through every situation.

Gold Fever!: Tales from the California Gold Rush

3 reviews
Rosalyn Schanzer

National Geographic Children's Books, 2007

Gold Fever! Tales from the California Gold Rush
The story of the California gold rush is told through (short) actual quotes from those involved, arranged in a sequential manner. This non-fiction book is entertaining and informative and reads like a comic book. It is a historical edition and has excellent color illustrations. Recommended reading for 1st through the 6th grade, as well as the teachers of these grades,

The Life of Our Lord: Written for His Children During the Years 1846 to 1849

10 reviews
Charles Dickens, Gerald Charles Dickens

Simon & Schuster, 1999

Another Dickens Masterpiece!
I never knew of this book's existence until a friend of mine, a fellow book lover, told me about it. What I love most about the book is that Dickens wrote it for his children--not for the public at large. How many fathers would write a book just for their children? Dickens seems like such a tender hearted person. And you can sense that there is a lot of love put into this book. It's nice ...

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