Today’s treble T is a freebie, and my initial impulse was to highlight some booktubers I enjoy. However, embedding videos is always hit and miss with youtube, so I’m going to highlight recent books in my browsing history.
But first, the Tuesday Tease!
Again and again the rockets sped into the air like arrows, and the sky became crimson and gold. Manderley stood out like an enchanted house, every window aflame, the gray walls colored by the falling stars. A house bewitched, carved out of the dark woods. REBECCA, Daphne du Maurier
Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, “Je vous demande pardon,” and as I moved to give him space, he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking at myself. THE SCAPEGOAT, Daphne du Maurier
And now, window-shopping…two of these I’ve actually bought or borrowed, and several others are very tempting.
(1) Masters of the Planet, Ian Tatterstall. A work on human origins.
(2) Those Damned Rebels, a primary source look at how the British experienced the Revolutionary War.
(3) A Fierce Glory, a history of the battle of Antietam and its consequences.
(4) Being Nixon: A Man Divided, Evan Thomas.
(5) Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, Gerald Posner. A large history written to rebuke conspiracy theories, but astonishingly not the largest. There’s a 1600 page book (Reclaiming History) written to address Oliver Stone’s JFK movie specifically.
(6) JFK and Vietnam, John Newman
(7) The Unexpected President, Scott Greenberger. On the life of Chester Arthur.
(8) How States Think, John Mearscheimer
(9) The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of US Primacy, Stephen Walt.
(10) Lincoln, Gore Vidal. The lone novel on this list! I’m thinking of trying his Narratives of Empire series of novels. It begins with Burr, but I’ve ordered the Lincoln book to start with.
Reading Freely 
I hope you love all of these titles. I never would have guessed there were so many books out there about presidents. 🙂
Thank you for stopping by earlier.
Kennedy/Lincoln literature alone could fill a store!
Scapegoat is new to me. That quote alone is tempting me to pick it up and read right away.
It’s certainly a captivating premise!
I’d never thought about the British experience of the Revolutionary War before, but I’d bet it was quite interesting.
Thank you for visiting Long and Short Review’s post earlier.
I’ve read a couple…The Men who Lost America, and British Soldiers, American War. The latter was just letters and such British soldiers wrote while in service. Men Who Lost focused on politicans and generals.
Okay, that’s a fun topic!
Great list!
Actually, to share youtibe videos, embedding takes a lot of unnecessary memory on your website. The best is to insert a link, according to my experience
Ahh, thanks. My issue has been the channel disabling it….videos will look fine in preview mode and then not function when the post is live.
Fun topic! Have a good week!