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Originally Posted by pulltheplug86
James McPherson's Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction.
It's for my college history class, but it is still an excellent book. I won't be selling back this book.
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McPherson is pretty good. The Civil War is a difficult thing to study, I think, because so much of the literature is absolutely terrible.
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Originally Posted by Unfaithfully Metalhead
I have that and of course The Prince... my nickname on another board is Machiavelli ironically enough lol i love that name... guy was a pure genuis in his political thought... but anyways I'm currently reading
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Insomuch as it can all be simmered down to inter-Kingdom dislikes of Italy during the period. Interesting, but perhaps short of genius.