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Recommended History Books - 2007

(Selections from the New York Times 100 Notable Books, Library Journal, Booklist's Best Non-fiction Books of the Year, Booklist's Editor's Choice, and ALA's Best Books) - see also recommended history books published 2008

Africa

• Diamonds gold and war : the British the Boers and the making of South Africa. Martin Meredith. PublicAffairs, c2007.
• The door of no return : the history of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic slave trade. William St Clair. BlueBridge, 2007.
• House of stone : the true story of a family divided in war-torn Zimbabwe. Christina Lamb. Lawrence Hill Books, 2007.
• A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier. Ishmael Beah. Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2007.
• The man in the white sharkskin suit : my family's exodus from Old Cairo to the New World. Lucette Matalon Lagnado. Ecco, c2007.
• Shades of difference : Mac Maharaj and the struggle for South Africa. Padraig O'Malley. Viking, 2007.
• Stanley : the impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer. Tim Jeal. Yale University Press, 2007.
• When a crocodile eats the sun : a memoir of Africa. Peter Godwin. Little Brown and Co, 2007.
• The wreck of the Medusa. Jonathan Miles. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007.

 

America

• 15 stars : Eisenhower MacArthur Marshall: three generals who saved the American century. Stanley Weintraub. Free Press, 2007.
• The age of Lincoln. Orville Vernon Burton. Hill and Wang, 2007.
• Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth from White house princess to Washington power broker. Stacy A Cordery. Viking, 2007.
• American creation : triumphs and tragedies at the founding of the republic. Joseph J Ellis. Alfred A Knopf, 2007.
• Amerigo : the man who gave his name to America. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Random House, c2007.
• Belva Lockwood : the woman who would be president. Jill Norgren. New York University Press, c2007.
• The birth of black America : the first African Americans and the pursuit of freedom at Jamestown. Tim Hashaw. Carroll & Graf Publishers ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2007.
• Boone : a biography. Robert Morgan. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007.
• Buried in the bitter waters : the hidden history of racial cleansing in America. Elliot Jaspin. Basic Books, c2007.
• Case of Abraham Lincoln : a story of adultery murder and the making of a great president. J. M. Fenster. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
• Conquering Gotham : a Guilded Age epic : the construction of Penn Station and its tunnels. Jill Jonnes. Viking, c2007.
• Crisis pursued by disaster followed closely by catastrophe : a memoir of life on the run. Mike O'Connor. Random House, c2007.
• Driven out : the forgotten war against Chinese Americans. Jean Pfaelzer. Random House, c2007.
• The fabric of America : how our borders and boundaries shaped the country and forged our national identity. Andro Linklater. Walker & Co : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.
• FDR. Jean Edward Smith. Random House, c2007.
• Heart like water : surviving Katrina and life in its disaster zone. Joshua Clark. Free Press, 2007.
• Hotel : an American History. A. K. Sandoval-Strausz. Yale University Press, c2007.
• I've got a home in glory land : a lost tale of the underground railroad. Karolyn Smardz Frost. Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2007.
• The Jamestown project. Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
• A land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca: the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century. Andres Resendez. Basic Books, 2007.
• Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA. Tim Weiner. Doubleday, c2007.
• Leviathan : the history of whaling in America. Eric Jay Dolin. WW Norton & Company, c2007.
• Lincoln revisited : new insights from the Lincoln Forum. . Fordham University Press, 2007.
• Lincoln the lawyer. Brian R Dirck. University of Illinois Press, c2007.
• A matter of justice : Eisenhower and the beginning of the civil rights revolution. David A Nichols. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
• My dearest friend : letters of Abigail and John Adams. John Adams. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
• Obama : from promise to power. David Mendell. Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers, c2007.
• Out of range : why the Constitution can't end the battle over guns. Mark V Tushnet. Oxford University Press, 2007.
• A people at war : civilians and soldiers in America's Civil War 1854-1877. Scott Reynolds Nelson. Oxford University Press, 2007.
• The politics of heaven : America in fearful times. Earl Shorris. WW Norton & Co, c2007.
• Reclaiming history : the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Vincent Bugliosi. W W Norton & Co, c2007.
• Sacco and Vanzetti : the men the murders and the judgment of mankind. Bruce Watson. Viking, 2007.
• Savage kingdom : the true story of Jamestown 1607 and the settlement of America. Benjamin Woolley. HarperCollins Publishers, c2007.
• Scorpion down : sunk by the Soviets buried by the Pentagon : the untold story of the USS Scorpion. Edward Offley. Basic Books, c2007.
• See you in a hundred years : four seasons in forgotten America. Logan Ward. BenBella Books, c2007.
• Shoot the widow : adventures of a biographer in search of her subject. Meryle Secrest. Alfred A Knopf, c2007.
• A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation. David W Blight. Harcourt, c2007.
• This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War. Drew Gilpin Faust. Alfred A Knopf, 2008.
• Too far from home : a story of life and death in space. Chris (Chris Alexander) Jones. Doubleday, c2007.
• Touch and go : a memoir. Studs Terkel. New Press, 2007.
• Unruly Americans and the origins of the Constitution. Woody Holton. Hill and Wang, 2007.
• What hath God wrought : the transformation of America 1815-1848. Daniel Walker Howe. Oxford University, Press 2007.

 

Ancient

• The Great Pyramid : ancient Egypt revisited. John Romer. Cambridge University Press, 2007
• The Rosetta Stone and the rebirth of ancient Egypt. J D Ray. Harvard University Press, 2007.

 

Asia

• The coldest winter : America and the Korean War. David Halberstam. Hyperion, c2007.
• The early Chinese empires : Qin and Han. Mark Edward Lewis. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
• The father of all things : a Marine his son and the legacy of Vietnam. Tom Bissell. Pantheon Books, 2007.
• India after Gandhi : the history of the world's largest democracy. Ramachandra Guha. Ecco, 2007.
• Indian summer : the secret history of the end of an empire. Von Tunzelmann Alex. Henry Holt and Co, 2007.
• The Long March : the true history of communist China's founding myth. Shuyun Sun. Doubleday, c2006.
• Marco Polo : from Venice to Xanadu. Laurence Bergreen. Alfred A Knopf, 2007.
• Perfect spy : the incredible double life of Pham Xuan An Time magazine reporter and Vietnamese communist agent. Larry Berman. Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007.
• Shadow of the Silk Road. Colin Thubron. Harpercollins Publishers, c2007.

 

Europe

• Agent Zigzag : a true story of Nazi espionage love and betrayal. Ben Macintyre. Harmony Books, c2007.
• Alexis de Tocqueville : a life. Hugh Brogan. Yale University Press, 2007.
• Cavalier : a tale of chivalry passion and great houses. Lucy Worsley. Bloomsbury, 2007.
• City of laughter : sex and satire in eighteenth-century London. V. A. C. Gatrell. Atlantic, 2007.
• The day of battle : the war in Sicily and Italy 1943-1944. Rick Atkinson. Henry Holt and Co, 2007.
• The Diana chronicles. Tina Brown. Doubleday, c2007.
• The discovery of France. Graham Robb. Norton, c2007.
• In Europe : travels through the twentieth century. Geert Mak. Pantheon Books, 2007.
• King Kaiser Tsar : Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War. Catrine Clay. St Martins Pr, 2007.
• Lenin's private war : the voyage of the philosophy steamer and the exile of the intelligentsia. Lesley Chamberlain. St Martin's Press, 2007.
• Liberty : the lives and times of six women in revolutionary France. Lucy Moore. HarperCollins, c2007.
• A new world : England's first view of America. Kim Sloan. The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
• No simple victory : World War II in Europe 1939-1945. Davies Norman. Viking, 2007.
• The perfect summer : England in 1911 : just before the storm. Juliet Nicolson. Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2007].
• The pirate queen : Queen Elizabeth I her merchant adventurers and the dawn of empire. Susan Ronald. HarperCollins Publishers, c2007.
• The pursuit of glory : Europe 1648-1815. T. C. W. Blanning. Viking, 2007.
• Rites of peace : the fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna. Adam Zamoyski. HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.
• Sovereign ladies : the six reigning queens of England. Maureen Waller. St Martin's Press, 2007.
• A special mission : Hitler's secret plot to seize the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII. Dan Kurzman. Da Capo Press, c2007.
• The Verneys : a true story of love war and madness in seventeenth-century England. Adrian Tinniswood. Riverhead Books, 2007.
• Weimar Germany : promise and tragedy. Eric D Weitz. Princeton University Press, c2007.
• The whisperers : private life in Stalin's Russia. Orlando Figes. Metropolitan Books, 2007.
• The years of extermination : Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945. Saul Friedlander. HarperCollins, 1997-2007.
• Young Stalin. Sebag Montefiore. Alfred A Knopf, 2007.
• The zookeeper's wife : a war story. Diane Ackerman. WW Norton & Co, c2007.

 

Latin America

• The boys from Dolores : Fidel Castro's classmates from revolution to exile. Patrick Symmes. Pantheon Books, c2007.
• Havana : autobiography of a city. Alfredo Jose Estrada. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

 

Middle East

• City of oranges : an intimate history of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa. Adam LeBor. W W Norton & Co, 2007.
• The deserter's tale : the story of an ordinary soldier who walked away from the war in Iraq. Joshua Key. Atlantic Monthly Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2007.
• Gertrude Bell : queen of the desert shaper of nations. Georgina Howell. Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2007.
• Imperial life in the emerald city : inside Iraq's green zone. Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Alfred A Knopf, 2006.
• The occupation of Iraq : winning the war losing the peace. Ali A Allawi. Yale University Press, c2007.
• Power faith and fantasy : America in the Middle East 1776 to the present. Michael B. Oren. WW Norton & Co, 2007.
• Prisoner of Tehran : a memoir. Marina Nemat. Free Press, c2007.
• Rome and Jerusalem : the clash of ancient civilizations. Martin Goodman. Alfred A Knopf, 2007.

 

World

• Cultural amnesia : necessary memories from history and the arts. Clive James. WW Norton & Co, c2007.
• The great Arab conquests : how the spread of Islam changed the world we live in. Hugh (Hugh N) Kennedy. Da Capo Press, 2007.
• The ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh : a woman in world history. Linda Colley. Pantheon Books, c2007.
• Slave ship : a human history. Marcus Buford Rediker. Viking, 2007.
• Trading in memories : travels through a scavenger's favorite places. Barbara Hodgson. Greystone Books, c2007.
• Well-behaved women seldom make history. Laurel Ulrich. Alfred A Knopf, 2007.
• What makes a terrorist? : economics and the roots of terrorism : Lionel Robbins lectures. Alan B. Krueger. Princeton University Press, c2007

Rev. 12/07 KK

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