Lists of Bests: FrancisFrownsalot's "History" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/60037 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:34:15 GMT en-us 0 50 172 50 0 Westward Whoa: In the Wake of Lewis and Clark http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1326400 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. Hodding Carter</div> West With the Night (Virago Travellers) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3557010 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3557010"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01C492FG53L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Beryl Markham</div> Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69646 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69646"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395670292.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Lovell</div> Red Azalea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1055559 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1055559"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096987.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anchee Min</div> The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/136818 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/136818"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679759611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44908880_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Putnam Demos</div> A Diary of the Century: Tales by America's Greatest Diarist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/283311 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/283311"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1568360800.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Robb Ellis</div> Lincoln http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19324 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19324"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/068482535X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47025583_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Herbert Donald</div> Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/464775 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/464775"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140169318.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucette Matalon Lagnado</div> 1939: Lost World of Fair http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68253 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68253"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/038072748X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Gelernter</div> The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/387816 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/387816"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679431489.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert D. Kaplan</div> People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Zinn</div> HISTORY LAID BARE ZACKS RICHARD http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/141831 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1020116 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1020116"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684832461.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher J Matthews</div> THE UNRULY QUEEN: LIFE OF QUEEN CAROLINE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5354382 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5354382"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21A0F40N63L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by FLORA FRASER</div> Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1094894 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1094894"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393327280.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132599600_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D. J. Waldie</div> Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1437077 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1437077"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1885983085.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willard Trask</div> Great Women in Sports http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5369785 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5369785"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/716YSW82TFL._SL75_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Janette Johnson</div> Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19087 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19087"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679772685.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen</div> NAPOLEON AND JOSEPHINE: The Battle of Waterloo--and the Great Commanders Who Fought It http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644589 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0025178105.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evangeline Bruce</div> Love Thy Neighbor : A Story of War (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19033 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19033"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679763899.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Maass</div> WAKING THE TEMPESTS : Ordinary Life in the New Russia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589089 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589089"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684809125.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eleanor Randolph</div> The Gutenberg Elegies : The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1433492 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sven Birkerts</div> Bitter Winds : A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1107866 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1107866"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471114251.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harry Wu</div> Travels With a Hungry Bear: A Journey to the Russian Heartland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1291649 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1291649"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0395426707.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056440198_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Kramer</div> Lincoln: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9174 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9174"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375708766.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gore Vidal</div> Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19042 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19042"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679764895.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Weschler</div> White Noise: (Great Books Edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035553 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035553"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283307.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div> The Weaker Vessel (Women in History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1105758 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1105758"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1842126350.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47001622_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Antonia Fraser</div> The Power of Myth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10206 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10206"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385418868.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43057146_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Campbell</div> The Wives of Henry VIII http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83372 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83372"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067973001X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192801_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Antonia Fraser</div> A History of the Amish, Revised and Updated! http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2299985 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2299985"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1561483931.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1076540208_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven M. Nolt</div> The Satyricon (Meridian Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65421 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65421"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452010055.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Petronius</div> Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1996189 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1996189"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307345424.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Faludi</div> Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms: My Life in American Politics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/165157 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/165157"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553067311.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056455405_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ed Rollins</div> The Riddle of Amish Culture (Center Books in Anabaptist Studies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1069797 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1069797"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/080186772X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122574546_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald B. Kraybill</div> Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl (Complete and Unabridged) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2482096 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2482096"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/8182522218.01-AMS9K7DUG9QBG._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44090004_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Frank</div> The Confessions of Nat Turner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18813 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18813"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679736638.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Styron</div> Young Men and Fire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5007 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5007"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226500624.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Maclean</div> Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1667316 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Shepard</div> Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127120 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127120"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140247602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fergal Keane</div> The Third Lie http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2113991 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2113991"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802115837.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Agota Kristof</div> Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5039126 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5039126"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513WNNTVFBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Biel</div> The Titanic: End of a Dream http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1216587 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1216587"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140166912.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wyn Craig Wade</div> Maiden Voyage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5531834 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5531834"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71WY2FMP94L._SL75_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cynthia Bass</div> Witnessing America : The Library of Congress Book of First-Hand Accounts of Public Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1263835 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1263835"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0670864005.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Noel Rae</div> Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23815 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23815"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0471295639.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter L. Bernstein</div> War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1948558 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1948558"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195119126.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence H. Keeley</div> All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3037035 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fox Butterfield</div> Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18923 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18923"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679750061.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Langewiesche</div> A History of Reading http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2715 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2715"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140166548.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alberto Manguel</div>