This is an attempt to list all of the different nonfiction books, magazines and other things I've read throughout the years. Here goes:
-The New York Times
-Huffington Post (News Articles)
-CNN.com
-the Vacaville Reporter
-the Sacramento Bee
-the San Francisco Chronicle
-Times Magazine
-Atlas of World History (and its various sub books on the different time periods of history)
-Eyewitness Books (various throughout my elementary school experience)
-The Tyrants, by Clive Foss (This is an excellent book on tyrants of the 20th century. If anyone wants to borrow my tattered copy, just ask.)
-The Peloponnesian War, by Donald Kagan
-The Landmark Herodotus, The Histories, edited by Robert B. Strassler
-The World Almanac, 2008 edition
-And, last but not least, Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond
This list is incomplete, because it is impossible to list all of the countless hours of shows from the History Channel, History-International, The Science Channel, The Military Channel, and other great networks.
The Peloponnesian War, by Donald Kagan is a wonderful book that I happened to buy on a whim in a used book store in Boston over the summer. Kagan is a world renown historian of Greek history, a teacher of history at Yale, and a classic scholar, but he doesn't write for scholars in this book. He wrote about the first Western world war so that all peoples, no matter your education in the English language, can understand and partake of this wonderful, rich history. There are plenty of maps to reference, so, by the end of reading this book, you obtain a marvelous knowledge of Greek geography, but you also get a feel for the people of ancient Greek societies. You understand the reasons behind the Peloponnesian War besides the Megarid Embargo, and realize it was really the struggle between oligarchy and democracy in the ancient world. It is a great, easy read that anyone interested in Ancient Greek history should read.
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