Lists of Bests: Barnes and Nobles Best History Books of 2008 http://www.listsofbests.com/list/61438 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:39:17 GMT en-us 0 50 10 0 0 The Forever War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5323262 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5323262"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CmtvdiUiL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dexter Filkins</div> American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3647993 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Meacham</div> Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3647586 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Carlin</div> The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3913139 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3913139"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511YgoF0PfL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Annette Gordon-Reed</div> This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4335388 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Drew Gilpin Faust</div> To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 The Epic Battle That Ended the First World War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5513494 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5513494"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z1-IiQdrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward G. Lengel</div> Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4141270 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4141270"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dNDN%2BTwqL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rick Perlstein</div> The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3273400 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Dolnick</div> The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needham and the Making of a Masterpiece http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3372249 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Winchester</div> Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4024539 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jed Perl</div>