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Mr Lincoln's Army16 reviews
Bruce Catton

Anchor, 1951

Why oh why did they stop printing this?????
What a wonderful book. I was so lucky to be able to pick up a great condition trilogy of the AOP (Mr. Lincoln's Army, Glory Road, and Stillness at Appomatox). Catton's style is so amazing. You get the broad strokes of tactical movement, political wranglings, down in the ditch tales, camp life, and of course the human equation. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. I must say, I'm glad I had a ... 		  
  







  
  
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller13 reviews
Judith Thurman

Picador, 1995

A little disillusioned over here.
Ah, so I finally finished this biography last night. I had fallen in love with Out of Africa and Seven Gothic Tales, and in reading her biography, I had hoped to fall in love with Isak Dinesen, the Pellegrina. Sadly, I fell out of it. The fault is not in the biography. It's a fascinating life, and it was good to have the blanks filled in as far as her childhood, and what happened in Africa, ... 		  
  







  
  
Patton: A Genius for War84 reviews
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 outwardly cruel, demanding, competitive, a taskmaster, single-minded, agressive, angry, all the rest. I've never fought in war, but ... 		  
  







  
  
Sinclair Lewis: A Descriptive Bibliography, Second Edition11 reviews
Stephen R. Pastore

University of Scranton Press, 2008

Honest and concise
This book provides the most honest and concise bibliography of one of the foremost authors of our time and Mr. Pastore has essentially re-engineered how a bibliography should be written - that "thin" can be better than "fat". 		  
  







  
  
The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant: (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant) (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)12 reviews

Southern Illinois University Press, 1988

An Essential Work For Students of Grant
This fascinating autobiography is a must-read for anyone wanting a personal view not only of Ulysses Grant, but of his all-too-often ignored and underrated wife. Julia Grant's memoir is an unusually frank and entertaining visit with her unique, delightfully engaging personality--she was a far cry from the rather sour-looking, unprepossessing image one gets from her photographs. One thing I found ... 		  
  







  
  
The Patton Papers: 1940-194510 reviews
Martin Blumenson

Da Capo Press, 1996

Exciting Fast Paced Biography That Reads Like A Novel
Martin Blumenson's has created a fascinating and surprisingly readable biography of the World War II hero, General George Patton. Blumenson has taken the General's diaries, personal and official letters and combined them with letters written to him and newspaper articles written about him. These are arranged in chronological order. The period covered by this book was the most active of Patton's ... 		  
  







  
  
Grant Takes Command12 reviews
Bruce Catton

Little Brown & Co (T), 1990

Highly recommended
This is a very readable, engaging study of the last two years of the Civil War, in which General Grant is taken from his command in the west, to the "big show" as commander of the Army of the Potomac. He is shown to be a determined, relentless leader willing to fight the war of attrition that ultimately led to the destruction of the Army of Northern Virginia. He proved to be more than a match ... 		  
  







  
  
Patton: A Biography12 reviews

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Great Introduction to one of the United States' Greatest Generals
This concise but authoritative biography of General George S. Patton, Jr. is the perfect text for the person who desires a penetrating biography of this legendary General without the length of some of the more complete biographies out there. As others have already posted, this is an easy-to-read biography that makes a great introduction to Patton's life, and for many readers this is complete ... 		  
  







  
  
Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House25 reviews
Franklin Toker

Knopf, 2003

Architect's Review:
I must say that as an architect who has been practicing for over 25 years, I have not read any book quite like this before that reaches so deeply into the creation of a master work such as Fallingwater. I have always "appreciated" FLW work but only recently have more fully understood what he has accomplished and created in built architectural works that to me borders on magical and genius at the ... 		  
  







  
  
Ulysses S. Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, ...20 reviews
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 humility. The personal letters at the end of the volume reveal much about this fascinating man, and are a welcome addition. Please ... 		  
  







  
  
Fashions of the Gilded Age, Volume 1: Undergarments, Bodices, Skirts, Overskirts, Polonaises, and Day ...6 reviews

Lavolta Press, 2004

as good as all the other Frances Grimble books
This book contains patterns for the following: corsets, hoopskirts and bustles (some) underclothing and negligee wear (quite a few) day and evening skirts (only about four) day bodices (quite a few) evening bodices (some) overskirts (some) polonaises (some) day dresses (quite a few) some = around ten quite a few = over 20 I would recommend this book for anyone who likes victorian ... 		  
  







  
  
On The Way: General Patton's Eyes and Ears on the Enemy7 reviews
Edward A. Marinello

Kroshka Books, 1998

An Amazing Book !
On the Way, by Edward Marinello, is a fascinating eyewitness account of the American soldier on European battlefields during World War II. Through the eyes and ears of Edward Marinello, the reader witnesses the fears, challenges, and ingenuity of the men in Battery B. This should be required reading for all American history courses. On the Way gives a powerful insight to the ... 		  
  







  
  
Boss-busters and Sin Hounds: Kansas City and Its Star6 reviews
Harry Haskell

University of Missouri Press, 2007

Extraordinary Journey
Haskell's meticulously researched account of the history of The Kansas City Star is a brilliant journey through history. Not only does this work describe the political and social passions and conflicts of America from the late 19th century to the present, it sheds light upon the humanity and foibles of such players as Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and numerous civic and national figures. It ... 		  
  







  
  
Grant Moves South: 1861 - 18638 reviews
Bruce Catton

Back Bay Books, 1990

The Making of a General
Although Bruce Catton was an accomplished historian in his own right, one cannot help but notice the influence of the great Sherman biographer Lloyd Lewis. Anyone who has read Lewis' _Sherman: Fighting Profit_ will recognize similarities; the heavy reliance on primary sources and the uncanny ability to allow the reader to draw his or her own conclusions without explicitly stating the writer's ... 		  
  







  
  
President Grant Reconsidered10 reviews
Frank, J. Scaturro

Madison Books, 1999

Finally- A Honest Account of the Grant Presidency!
During the 50 years following the Civil War, the presidency of U. S. Grant was completely distored in an attempt to diminish the accomplishments of the Grant era (Civil Rights) and to take away some of the luster from the man who saved the Union. The Democratic party- particullary of the South- stiffled the great civil rights efforts of the Republicans during reconstruction. As time passed, and ... 		  
  







  
  
Letters from Africa, 1914-19316 reviews
Isak Dinesen

University Of Chicago Press, 1984

Better than Out of Africa
Isak Dineson, or Karen Blixen, was a fascinating woman. Most people know her as the main character from the movie Out of Africa or as the auther of the book of the same name. While the movie and the book are both good, I feel that this collection of her letters gives the best picture of who she was and what was important to her. The struggles of trying to make a go of her farm are ... 		  
  







  
  
The Pound Era9 reviews
Hugh Kenner

University of California Press, 1973

this is da geeza
not so much an ruk, as a demonstration of squid's panoramic influence on modernism, kenner's book remains one of da mostest ighly praised exemplars of american literary criticism. conveyin as much biography as analysis-and evun more cultural istory, kenner's sui generis ang leaps from topic to tale to close readin, wiv little effort at transition, in an angular act of synthesis dat demands acts ... 		  
  







  
  
Hugo's Les Miserables (Cliffs Notes)8 reviews
Amy L. Marsland, George Klin

Cliffs Notes, 1968

Ahhhh... Good old Notes....
Okay, I was browsing through my library and I stumbled across the Les Miserables cliff notes (I have read the whole thing unabridged 4 times). I picked it up to look it over, and was impressed. I checked it out, and took it to school the next day and gave it to my friend who was reading the abridged version and I gave it to her to read. She liked it much better. She said it was, "Shorter ... 		  
  







  
  
Grant Takes Command: 1863 - 18655 reviews
Bruce Catton

Back Bay Books, 1990

Clear history of Grant's achievements
It is almost amazing that even after nearly 40 years, this book still stand the test of time as one of the best studies of General U.S. Grant's tenure as the military commander of all Federal forces. The book starts off from the Chattanooga campaign in late 1863 and moving on to his promotion as overall commander and his attachment to the Army of the Potomac for the rest of the war. By this move ... 		  
  







  
  
Complete Poems (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)5 reviews
D. H. Lawrence

Penguin Classics, 1994

To this reader, poems and essays of DHL are his best works.
This book of poems shares the top spot in my bookcase with Whitman's "Leaves of Grass". They are accessible, highly perceptive, pertinent and intensely personal. My favorites are: "FIDELITY" - "...The wonderful slow flow of the sapphire..." "GOD IS BORN" - "...And so we see, God is not until he is born. And also we see ... 		  
  







  




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