2010 schedule:
Jan 27: Fischer, David Hackett, Washington’s Crossing, Oxford University Press, 2006, 576
pages, ISBN 978-0195181593.
Feb 24: Nelson, Craig, The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid-America’s
First World War II Victory, Penguin, 2003, 448 pages, ISBN 978-0142003411.
Mar. 31: Tuchman, Barbara, Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945, Grove
Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0802138521, 624 pages
Apr. 28: Kennan, George F., Memoirs 1925-1950, Pantheon, 1983, ISBN 9780394716244, 596
pgs. Out of print, used books available.
May 26: Halberstam, David, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, Hyperion, 2008,
736 pages, ISBN 978-1401300524.
Jun. 30: Michener, James A., Centennial: A Novel, Random House, 2007, 928 pages, ISBN 978
0375708763.
Jul. 28: Egan, Timothy, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the
Great American Dust Bowl, Mariner Books, 2006, 340 pages, ISBN 978 0618773473.
Aug. 25: Sontag, Sherry, Christopher Drew, Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American
Submarine Espionage, Harper Paperbacks, 2000, 432 pages, ISBN 978-0060977719.
Sept. 29: Rapport, Mike, 1848: Year of Revolution, Little, Brown, 2008, 480 pages, ISBN 9780316729659
Oct. 27: Winchester, Simon, The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English
Dictionary, Oxford University Press (USA), 2004, 288 pages, ISBN 978-0195175004.
Nov. 17 (one week early): Turner, Frederick Jackson, The Frontier in American History, Scholarly
Publishing Office University of Michigan, 2005, ISBN 9781418188092, 384 pgs.
Dec. No meeting, Happy Holiday!
2009 schedule:
Jan 28: Lewis, David Levering, God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215, W.W.
Norton, 2008 ISBN 978-0393064728, Amazon $19.77, Powell's $29.95.
Feb 27: Darwin, John, After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405, Bloomsbury
Press, 2008 ISBN 978-1596913936, Amazon $23.95, Powell's $34.95.
Mar. 26: Anderson, Fred, The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian
War, Pengiun, 2006, ISBN 978-0143038047. Amazon $10.88
April 29: Hornfischer, James D., The Last Stand of theTin Can Sailors: The Extaordinary World
War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour, Bantam, 2005, ISBAN 978-0553381481
May 28: Wouk, Herman, Winds of War, Back Bay Books, ISBN 978-0316952668, Amazon $11.55.
June 25: Flood, Charles Bracelen, Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War ,
Perennial, ISBN 978-0061148712, Amazon $11.53, Powells $ 10.95
July 30: Prior, Robin, Trevor Wilson, The Somme, Yale University Press, 2006, ISBN 9780300119633. Amazon $15.60
Aug. 27: Elliott, J.H., Imperial Spain: 1469-1716 , Penguin, ISBN 0141007036, Amazon $10.88,
Powell's $16.00, GNW Bookstore $5.00-7.00.
Sept. 24: Olson, Lynn, Stanley Cloud, A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: The
Forgotten Heroes of WW II, Vintage, ISBN 978-0375726255, Amazon $10.85
Oct. 29: Wouk, Herman, War and Remembrance, Back Bay books, ISBN 978-0316954990,
Amazon $11.55.
Nov. 26: Porter, Lewis, Lester Young, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0472089222,
Amazon $18.95.
December 31: No meeting. Happy Holidays!
2008 schedule:
Jan. 30: McCullough, David, Johnstown Flood , Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0671207148, Amazon
$10.20, Powell's $8.95, GNW Bookstore $9.00-12.00.
Feb. 27: Striner, Richard, Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery , Oxford
University Press, ISBN 978-0195183061, Amazon $18.48, Powell’s $22.00.
Mar. 26: Perry, John, Sgt. York; His Life, Legacy, and Legend, B&H Publishing Group, Nashville,
ISBN 9780805460742, Amazon $13.59, Powells’s $19.99
Apr. 30: Jefferson, Thomas, Notes on Virginia , University of North Carolina Press, ISBN
0807845884. Library of America, others
May 28: Rhodes, Richard, The Making of the Atomic Bomb , Simon and Schuster Paperbacks,
ISBN 0684813785, Amazon $13.60, Powell's $8.98, GNW Bookstore $1.29-6.50.
June 25: Rhodes, Richard, The Making of the Atomic Bomb , Simon and Schuster Paperbacks,
ISBN 0684813785, Amazon $13.60, Powell's $8.98, GNW Bookstore $1.29-6.50.
July 30: Barone, Michael, Our First Revolution, The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired
America's Founding Fathers, Crown Publishers, ISBN 9781400097920, Amazon $17.13, Powells
$25.95, GNW $25.95.
Aug. 27: Doolittle, James H., Carroll V. Glines, I Could Never Be So Lucky Again, Schiffler
Publishing, ISBN 9780887407376, Amazon $29.95 (HB), $7.95 (PB), Powell’s $7.95 (PB) used HB
~ $11.00
Sept 24: Egan Timothy, Breaking Blue , Sasquatch Books, ISBN 1570614296, Amazon $11.96,
Powells $14.95, GNW ~$15.00 – Cold case murder in Spokane solved.
Oct. 29: Morris, John, Londinium , Phoenix Press, ISBN 1898801622, Amazon $22.84, Powells
$5.98.
Nov. 19: Kaye, M.M., The Far Pavilions , St. Martins Griffin, 1997, ISBN 978-0312151256.
Amazon $12.98, Powells $18.95
December 31: No meeting. Happy Holidays!
2007 schedule:
January 31: Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Team of Rivals, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0743270754,
Amazon $11.97 PB, $22.50 HB, Powells $19.95 PB, $25.00 HB.
February 28: Ellis, Joseph, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Vintage, ISBN
0679764410, Amazon $10.85 PB, $19.50 HB, Powells $10.95.
March 28: Doubler, Michael D. Closing with the Enemy, University of Kansas Press, ISBN
0700607447, Amazon $12.74, Powells $17.95.
April 25: Hanson, Neil, The Confident Hope of a Miracle, Vintage books, ISBN 140007817-2,
Amazon $1.53, Powells $12.98.
May 30: MacMillan, Margaret and Richard Holbrooke, Paris 1919, Random House, ISBN 9780060540944, Amazon, $11.53, Powell's $11.50.
June 27: Hopkirk, Peter, The Great Game, Kodansha Globe, ISBN 978-1568360225, Amazon
$12.07, Powell’s $17.00.
July 25: Wouk, Herman, The Caine Mutiny, Back Bay Books, ISBN 9780316955102 , Amazon
$11.35, Powells $10.50.
August 29: Foner, Eric, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party
before the Civil War, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0195094978, Amazon $18.95, Powell’s
$22.95.
September 26: McPherson, James, For Cause and Comrades, Oxford University Press, ISBN
9780195124996, Amazon $13.45, Powell’s $18.95.
October 24: Toll, Ian W., Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy, W.W.
Norton, ISBN 978-0393058475, Amazon $18.45, Powell’s $18.95.
November 28: Philbrick, Nathaniel, Mayflower, Viking Press, ISBN 9780143111979, Amazon
$19.77 HB, $10.88 PB, Powell's $29.99 HB, $16.00 PB.
December: No meeting.
2006 schedule:
January 2006: Massie, Robert K., Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the
Great War at Sea, Random House. ISBN 0679456716 (Amazon: $12.21, Powell's $17.95,
Borders: $17.95).
February 22: Twain, Mark, Roughing It, Many editions available, Amazon $12.21+, Powells
$6.95+
March 29: Parkman, Francis, The Oregon Trail, Many editions available, Amazon $10.50+,
Powells 7.20+
April 26: Pick a book on the Lewis and Clark Expedition and come to the meeting to discuss it.
May 31: Levenson, Thomas, Einstein in Berlin, ISBN: 055310344x, Powells $11.55.
June 28: Wilson, Edmund. Patriotic Gore, ISBN: 0393312569, Amazon $13.57, Powells $19.95.
July 26: Franklin, Benjamin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Many editions available,
Amazon $9.95+, Powells $9.95+.
August 30: Gaddis, John Lewis, The Cold War: A New History, ISBN: 1594200629, Amazon
$17.61, Powells $27.00.
September 27: Mann, Charles C., 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,
Knopf, ISBN 140004006X. Amazon: $18.90, Powells $30.00, Still in hardback.
October 25: Fagan, Brian, The Little Ice Age, Basic Books, ISBN 100465022723, $11.02 Amazon,
$16.95 Powells Books.
November 29: Bass, Robert D., Swamp Fox, Sandlapper Publishing Co., ISBN 0878440518, $9.97
Amazon, $12.95 Powell.
December: No meeting.
2005 schedule:
26 January 2005: Gioia, Ted, The History of Jazz, Oxford Univ. Press, ISBN 019512653X (Amazon:
$12.95; Powell's: $12.50).
23 February 2005: Davis, William C., Three Roads to the Alamo, Perennial, ISBN 0060930942
(Amazon: $14.00; Powell's: $8.98).
30 March 2005: Johnson, Paul, The Renaissance: A Short History, Modern Library, ISBN
0812966198 (Amazon: $9.95; Powell's: $8.98).
27 April 2005: Clark, Donald, Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday, Da
Capo Press, ISBN 0306811367 (Amazon: $12.95; Powell's: $8.95).
25 May 2005: Chernow, Ron, Alexander Hamilton, Penguin Books, ISBN 0143034758 (Amazon:
$12.60 paperback available in April; Powell's: Paperback info N/, Hardcover available now).
29 June 2005: Read, Piers Paul, The Templars, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306810719 (Amazon:
$12.24, Powells: $18.00, Borders: $18.00)
27 July 2005: Hibbert, Christopher, Red Coats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through
British Eyes, W.W. Norton and Co. ISBN 0393322939 (Amazon: $11.53, Powells: $11.95,
Borders: $16.95).
31 August 2005: Woods, Gordon, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, Penguin Books,
ISBN 159420019X (Amazon: $17.53, Powells: $16.00, Borders: $34.95).
28 September 2005: Hanson, Victor Davis, Ripples of Battle, Anchor Books, ISBN 0385721943
(Amazon: $18.15, Powells: $14.95, Borders: $14.95).
26 October 2005: Diamond, Jared, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Viking
Press, ISBN 0670033375 (Amazon: $17.97, Powells: $21.00, Borders: $29.95).
30 November 2005: Massie, Robert K., Dreadnaught, Ballentine Books, ISBN 0345375564
(Amazon: $12.89, Powell's $23.00, Borders: $18.95).
December 2005: no meeting scheduled.
2004 schedule:
28 January 2004: William Least Heat-Moon, Columbus in the Americas (John Wiley & Sons,
2002).
25 February 2004: For February, it has been suggested to read David W. Shaw, Flying Cloud: The
True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her (William
Morrow, 2000).
31 March 2004: Richard Bruce Winders, Crisis in the Southwest: The United States, Mexico, and
the Struggle over Texas (Scholarly Resources, 2002).
28 April 2004: James Tertius deKay, The Rebel Raiders: The Astonishing History of the
Confederacy's Secret Navy (Ballantine, 2002).
26 May 2004: Andro Linklater, Measuring America: How the United States Was Shaped by the
Greatest Land Sale in History (Walker & Co., 2002).
30 June 2004: Jo Ann Roe, Ranald MacDonald: Pacific Rim Adventurer (Washington State UP,
1997).
28 July 2004: Edward Dolnick, Down the Great Unknown (Harper Collins, 2001).
25 Aug. 2004: Richard Zacks, The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd (Hyperion
Books, 2003).
29 Sept. 2004: Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaling Ship
Essex (Penguin Books, 2000).
27 Oct. 2004: Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism (Ballentine
Books, 2000).
November 2004: no meeting.
December 2004: no meeting.
2003 schedule:
27 January 2003: John Kobler, The Reluctant Surgeon: A Biography of John Hunter (Akadine
Press, 1999).
24 February 2003: Joseph E. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Vintage,
2002).
31 March 2003: Hampton Sides, Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest
Rescue Mission (Anchor, 2002).
28 April 2003: David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American
Century, 1919-1963 (Owl Books, 2001).
26 May 2003: Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002).
30 June 2003: Bernard Lewis, The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years
(Touchstone Books, 1997).
28 July 2003: Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Vintage
Books, 2003).
25 August 2003: Elliott Gorn, Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (Hill &
Wang Pub, 2002).
29 September 2003: John Lukacs, Five Days in London: May 1940 (Yale UP, 2001).
27 October 2003: Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power (Touchstone
Books, 1993).
8 December 2003: David G. McCullough, John Adams (Simon & Schuster, 2001).
2002 schedule:
28 January 2002: Robert Harvey, Cochrane: The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain (Carroll &
Graf, 2000).
25 February 2002: Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and
Love (Penguin, 2000).
25 March 2002: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, abridged edn, ed. Richard D.
Heffner (various printings; most recently Signet Classics, 2001).
29 April 2002: Sheila Firzpatrick, Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village
After Collectivization (Oxford UP, 1996).
27 May 2002: Isaiah Berlin, The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays (Farrar, Straus
& Giroux, 2000).
29 July 2002: Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (Random House, 2001).
26 August 2002: Edwin P. Hoyt, The Last Cruise of the Emden (Lyons P, 2001).
30 September 2002: Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth
Century (Ballantine, 1987).
28 October 2002: Ross King, Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented
Architecture (Penguin, 2001).
25 November 2002: Blaine Harden, A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (W.W.
Norton, 1997).
2001 schedule:
29 January 2001: Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
(Kodansha International, 1994).
26 February 2001: James McPherson, The Negro’s Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and
Acted During the War for the Union (Ballantine, 1991).
26 March 2001: Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War,
1890-1914 (Ballantine, 1996).
30 April 2001: James Welch, Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Big Horn and the Fate of the
Plains Indians (W.W. Norton, 1994).
28 May 2001: John Keegan, The Book of War (Penguin, 1999).
25 June 2001: Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in
Colonial Africa (Haughton Mifflin, 1998).
30 July 2001: Gina Bari Kolata, Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the
Search for the Virus That Caused It (Touchstone Books, 2001).
27 August 2001: Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms : The Cosmos of a SixteenthCentury Miller (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1992).
24 September 2001: Amanda Foreman, Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Random House,
2000).
29 October 2001: William Manchester, American Ceasar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964 (Dell,
1983).
26 November 2001: Bernard A. Weisberger, America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the
Revolutionary Election of 1800 (William Morrow & Co, 2000).
2000 schedule:
8 August 2000: Janet Wallach, Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell:
Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia (Doubleday, 1996).
25 September 2000: John Keegan, The First World War (Vintage, 2000).
30 October 2000: Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water
(Penguin, 1993).
27 November 2000: Sylvia Van Kirk, Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870
(U of Oklahoma P, 1983).